[Highlight] National Health Commission is officially established today

March 27, 2018

The staff took pictures in front of the door plate of National Health Commission.

On noon, March 27, staff members took pictures with the door plate of the newly established National Health Commission.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the National Health Commission was officially established on March 27. The official website name, “National Health and Family Planning Commission,” has been renamed the “National Health Commission,” and the website’s executive information column has been updated, with Ma Xiaowei as the director and party secretary.

In the new round of restructuring of the State Council, the duties of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the leading group office of the State Council on deepening the medical and health sectors reform, and the office of the National Commission on Ageing, the leading performance responsibility of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the management responsibilities of occupational safety and health supervision of the State Administration of Work Safety have merged into the new National Health Commission.

The main duties of the National Health Commission are to formulate national health policies, coordinate efforts to deepen the structural reform of the medical and health sectors, organize to set up the national system for basic drugs, supervise and administer public health, medical services, and health emergency, be responsible for family planning management and services, and formulate response measures and policies for ageing of the population and combination of medical and elderly care services.

On March 19th, Ma Xiaowei was named director of the National Health Commission at the 7^th plenary session of the 1^st session of the 13th National People's Congress. The relevant official of the Central Organization Department announced the central government’s decision on the establishment of the National Health Commission and its leadership position at the conference for leaders of the National Health Commission on March 22^nd.

According to today’s updated information on the Commission’s official website, the leadership team includes Ma Xiaowei, director and party secretary of the National Health Commission, Cui Li, Wang Hesheng, Zeng Yixin, deputy directors and party members of the National Health Commission, Ma Ben, team leader and party member of the discipline inspection group of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at National Health Commission, and Wang Jianjun, party member and president of China National Committee on Ageing.

According to official data, Ma Xiaowei was born in December 1959 in Wutai County of Shanxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in October 1982 and began working in August 1977. He studied at the department of medicine of China Medical University from April 1978 to December 1982. After graduation, he served successively as the chief of the science and education division and secretary of the general office at Ministry of Health, associate professor, researcher, vice president, director, and party secretary of the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, vice president of China Medical University, and director-general and party secretary of Liaoning Health Department, etc. Ma Xiaowei worked as the deputy director and party secretary of the Ministry of Health in October 2001, and was appointed deputy director and party member of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in April 2013.

News source: The Beijing News, official website of National Health Commission

Image Source: Network