THE State Council, China’s Cabinet, has issued a new guideline to implement the country’s Healthy China initiative.

With focus on disease prevention and health promotion, the guideline proposed 15 special campaigns to “intervene in health influencing factors, protect full-life-cycle health and prevent and control major diseases.”

An action plan for 2019-2030 has also been rolled out, specifying objectives and tasks of each campaign, as well as responsibilities of different actors in the campaign.

Major objectives of the action can be divided into three parts.

The first part is to conduct comprehensive intervention on health-influencing factors, including popularizing health knowledge, implementing rational diet, nationwide fitness programs and tobacco control, and promoting mental health and healthy environment.

The second is to protect full-life-cycle health, including health of women and children, primary- and secondary-school students, workers and the aged.

The third part is to prevent and control major diseases, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes and, infectious and endemic diseases.

The plan also gives suggestions on how individuals, families and society can improve the overall mental health situation, such as by using more scientific methods to ease pressure, ensuring enough sleep, giving full play to the role of mental healthcare institutions, and enhancing mental health education among new employees and students.

In 2016, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council released the “Healthy China 2030” blueprint, which covered areas such as public health services, environment management, the medical industry and food and drug safety.

(CGTN)