China News Service, April 7th. On the 7th, Mao Qun'an, Deputy Director of the Office of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee and Director of the Planning Information Department of the National Health and Health Commission, introduced at the press conference that currently the proportion of national health cities at or above the prefecture level in the country exceeds 60%. A number of model cities for healthy city construction have been created, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a healthy China.
On April 7, the National Health and Medical Commission held a press conference on the practice and effectiveness of China's patriotic health campaign and building a healthy city.
A reporter asked at the meeting: The theme of this year's World Health Day in China is "Healthy Homeland, Healthy China". In recent years, especially since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, what measures have been taken and what results have been achieved by the patriotic health campaign around this theme?
Mao Qun'an said that the patriotic health movement has carried out a lot of work over the years around the theme of promoting a healthy environment.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 30 member units of the National Patriotic Health Office, the National Health Commission and the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee have solidly promoted the patriotic health campaign.
In addition, Mao Qun'an also introduced the specific work situation:
Create a healthy environment and build a healthy home.
Mao Qun'an said, "We have launched the second round of urban and rural environmental sanitation and cleanliness together with the departments of ecological environment, housing and urban-rural development, agriculture and rural areas." This action focused on urban and rural garbage, sewage, and toilets, and strengthened infrastructure construction. Centralized improvement of environmental sanitation is carried out in key areas such as communities, urban-rural junctions, and farmers' markets.
Especially after the outbreak of COVID-19, several rounds of patriotic sanitation campaigns have been carried out across the country to clean up the environment and create a clean and tidy urban and rural living environment.
Conserve the concept of health and improve health literacy.
"We, together with the propaganda, education, sports and other departments and the Communist Youth League, trade unions, women's federations and other groups, have carried out extensive popular science activities around disease prevention and control, healthy lifestyles, etc., especially in response to the requirements of normalized epidemic prevention and control, launched nationwide. In order to advocate a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle, guide the general public to persist in some good habits and good practices developed in epidemic prevention and control for a long time, and the health literacy level of the public has been significantly improved. The social basis for the results of epidemic prevention and control." Mao Qun'an said.
Strengthen health governance to help build a healthy China.
Mao Qun'an mentioned, "We have comprehensively carried out the establishment and construction of healthy towns across the country, integrating health into the whole process and every link of urban planning, construction, and management." At present, the proportion of national health cities at or above the prefecture level in the country exceeds 60%. A number of model cities for healthy city construction have been established, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a healthy China.