The National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention held a special press conference on “Promoting the Progress of High-quality Development of Disease Control and Prevention” at 15:00 on December 27, 2024 (Friday), inviting Lei Zhenglong, Director of the Department of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, Li Xiaocui.
Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Immunization Planning of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention. Yao Qiang, Deputy Director of Zhejiang Provincial Health Commission and Director of Provincial Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, and Kan Biao, Director of National Institute of Infectious Diseases of China CDC introduced the high-quality development and progress of disease control and answered questions from reporters.
Friends from the media, good afternoon! Welcome to the CDC press conference.
It is of great significance to build a strong public health system and promote the realization of the grand goal of healthy China.
Over the past year, the disease control system has adhered to the Party’s health and health work policy in the new era, taken safeguarding people’s health as the fundamental goal, fully implemented the Guiding Opinions, and promoted the high-quality development of disease control and prevention to open a good bureau and take good steps, and achieved positive results. Here, I would like to summarize in four words.
The first word is “stability”, which is mainly reflected in system reform. We made progress while maintaining stability, established institutions first and then broke them down, and deepened institutional reform in all localities. All provincial-level disease control bureaus have been set up to achieve physical operation. The national and provincial centers for Disease Control and Prevention have added the brand of the Academy of Preventive Medicine to strengthen scientific research support and technical support.
Accelerate the integration of municipal and county-level disease control agencies and supervisory agencies, promote the organic connection between professional technical support and supervision and law enforcement, and thus achieve the reform effect of “1+1 > 2”. The grassroots are encouraged to carry forward the initiative, implement the reform requirements according to local conditions, and initially form a good pattern of disease control work with top-down linkage, complete functions, and participation of the whole society.
The second word is “new”, which is mainly reflected in mechanism innovation. We have consolidated the joint prevention and control mechanism and further expanded the prevention and control of major and emerging infectious diseases. To innovate the mechanism of “common prevention of multiple diseases”, explore the strategies and measures to optimize the “common prevention of multiple diseases” according to the transmission routes of respiratory tract, digestive tract and insect vectors.
For example, in the case of respiratory infectious diseases, we started to carry out the “Multiple diseases with the same surveillance and multiple tests” last year, providing strong support for the prevention and control of respiratory infectious diseases. We have explored mechanisms for coordination and integration of medical and preventive care, and 16 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have achieved full coverage of public health or preventive health departments in secondary and above medical institutions. The trial of the system of disease control supervisors in medical institutions has been expanded to 254 localities and municipalities across the country, covering all provinces.
By the end of November, about 8,700 full-time disease control supervisors and 33,700 part-time disease control supervisors had been selected to work in 28,200 medical institutions. We have launched a pilot program to empower public health doctors with prescribing rights, and explored a new model of prevention and control services that integrates prevention, treatment and management.
The third word is “strong”, mainly reflected in the ability to improve. Focusing on “strengthening advantages and strengthening weaknesses”, we carried out “great training” activities throughout the system, and successively held a number of skills competitions such as national field epidemiological investigation, disinfection, endemic disease prevention and control, parasitic disease prevention and control, and vaccination, which comprehensively improved the professional ability of the disease control team.
In terms of monitoring and early warning, focus on “multi-channel, all-disease, and intelligent”, promote the transformation of monitoring from a single channel to a multi-channel, and from single-disease monitoring to comprehensive monitoring. In the national secondary and above public medical institutions, the deployment and installation of infectious disease intelligent monitoring and early warning software, which will help the infectious disease monitoring and early warning mode from “passive reporting” to “active monitoring and passive monitoring combined.” In terms of inspection and testing, it guides and promotes the standardization of laboratory construction of disease control institutions in all localities.
At present, there are 26 provinces in China with biosafety Level III laboratories; The quality of laboratory tests by disease control agencies and infectious disease hospitals has improved significantly. In terms of emergency response, the national emergency prevention and control teams for acute infectious diseases reached 25, and 3,380 grass-roots emergency teams for infectious diseases were built, covering all cities and counties, and opening up the “last mile” of professional emergency teams for infectious diseases. More than 30,000 people across the country participated in or watched the “Zhudun-2024” national cluster epidemic emergency drills online and offline.
Various forms of emergency drills for various infectious diseases were also organized in various localities, through which plans were tested, teams were trained, running-in mechanisms were conducted, and capacities were improved. In terms of supervision and law enforcement, the central government has provided financial support to strengthen law enforcement equipment and rapid inspection equipment for municipal and county health supervision agencies; Steady progress has been made in the trial of classification of occupational health supervision and law enforcement, and 254,000 employers in 1,488 pilot counties across the country have completed the classification of occupational hazard risk.
The fourth word is “live”, mainly reflected in the integration of talent and technology. In terms of talent “introduction, education, retention and use”, the “head goose” effect has been brought into play, and high-level public health talent training support projects have been implemented. On the basis of training 20 leading public health talents last year, the quota has been expanded to 50 this year.
Promote the standardized training pilot work of public health physicians in CDC institutions to improve the quality and expand the scope, and vigorously cultivate cross-disciplinary talents who understand clinical, prevention, and management. In terms of scientific and technological innovation, the national key research and development program “Etiology and epidemic prevention technology system research” is the key project to promote the output and transformation of scientific research results.
In the next step, we will continue to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, continue to promote the implementation of the Guiding Opinions, effectively safeguard people’s lives and health, public health safety and economic and social development, and enhance people’s sense of gain, happiness and security. Thank you all!
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