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 "12th Five-Year" period, the Ministry of Health will take in tobacco control initiatives introduced Deng Haihua said, at home and abroad have more than 60 experts on China's tobacco control efforts have made many comments and suggestions. This will play an active role in promoting China's tobacco control efforts. In 2003, China signed the World Health Organization Framework Convention of Tobacco Control ", came into effect on January 9, 2006. In April 2007, the State Council approved the establishment of the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control compliance work composed by the eight departments of Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, General Administration of Customs, SAIC, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and Tobacco Bureau ministerial coordination group is responsible for coordinating the country's tobacco control compliance work. After the institutional reform of the State Council in 2008, the original head of the unit adjusted by the National Development and Reform Commission Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In accordance with the functions of the department of tobacco control compliance, the Ministry of Health and the health sector in the past few years in tobacco control compliance carried out some work.
First, to promote the creation of smoke-free health care system, May 2009, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the General Logistics Department and the Ministry of Health, Armed Police Headquarters Logistics Department jointly issued the "2011 national health system total ban on smoking decision, "and proposed a two-step, non-smoking to the end of 2010 all health authorities and 50% of medical and health institutions. By the end of 2011, the target of the ban on smoking in all health care institutions and health administrative departments. The past few years the health department to whom a lot of effort, including the media have done a lot of work, the effect is quite obvious. Ministry of Health authorities in advance to take the lead as an advocate, announced the creation of smoke-free Ministry of Health authorities in May 2010.

Second, in June 2011, the General Office of the Ministry of Health and the General Office of the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "views on further strengthening the school tobacco control efforts, developed a non-smoking standard for both types of schools, to encourage all types of schools at all levels with reference to a smoke-free the standards of the campus to carry out activities to create a smoke-free schools. In addition to smoking control in their own systems and schools, the Ministry of Health, but also vigorously carry out the promotional activities of tobacco control compliance, the health sector to actively carry out tobacco control advocacy and intervention activities in the country in 2008 to carry out a national smoking cessation contest, attracting 26 million people participated. Since 2008, we carry out continuous tobacco control mass media communication activities, and also achieved good results, has been preliminarily established a stable tobacco control media advocacy team.

Third, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games smoke-free Olympics. In October 2010, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization announced the Shanghai World Expo will be carried out since the tobacco control measures have been steadily improved, reaching the WHO's Tobacco Free, smoke large-scale implementation of activities recommended to achieve the goal of a smoke-free Expo.

Fourth, actively promote the local public and workplace non-smoking laws and regulations introduced. Since 2009, Yinchuan, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and other places have been introduced and amended in public places Smoking Control Ordinance provides the legal basis for the local indoor public places and work places smoke. At the national level, the work of tobacco control legislation, the Ministry of Health has also vigorously promoted.

Deng Haihua, also said that the tobacco control work a long way to go, there are a lot of work necessary to carry out. Health departments in accordance with the control of the overall deployment of the national tobacco work actively carry out the corresponding work, the next health departments continue to comprehensively promote the work to create smoke-free health care system, with the education sector to continue to promote a tobacco free campus activities to create, with the work of tobacco control compliance coordination group to prepare the country's tobacco control compliance plan, and actively promote the work of a total ban on smoking in indoor public places and workplaces legislation.



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