1. To draft health laws, regulations and policies; to propose health development programs and strategic goals; to formulate technical norms, health standards and to supervise their enforcement.
2. To propose regional health programs, to conduct overall planning and to coordinate the nationwide allocation of health resources, to formulate development plans and standards of community health service.
3. To formulate working programs and policies and measures on rural health and maternal and child health care; to guide the implementation of primary health programs and the technical norms of maternal and child health care.
4. To implement the guideline of "Prevention First" and to conduct health education to the general public. To work out programs on the prevention and treatment of dangerous diseases harmful to the health of the population; to organize comprehensive prevention and treatment of major diseases; and to publicize the quarantine and surveillance list of infectious diseases.
5. To guide the reform of medical institutions; to formulate criteria for medical practitioners, medical quality and standard and service standard, and to supervise their enforcement.
6. To regulate and supervise by law qualities of blood collection and supply at blood or plasma stations and the quality of blood for clinical use.
7. To draft and formulate key national development programs on medical science, technology and education; to organize researches on key national medical and health breakthroughs; to guide the popularization and application of medical achievements; and to administer the directly affiliated institutions.
8. To supervise the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases, to administer the hygiene in respect of food, occupations, environment, radiological stuff, and schools’ to formulate food and cosmetics quality control norms and be responsible for their accreditation.
9. To formulate national development programs on health professionals and professional ethics codes for health personnel; to draft staffing standards for health institutions and accreditation criteria for health personnel and organize their enforcement.
10. To organize and guide multi-lateral and bilateral, inter-governmental and non-governmental, medical and health cooperation and exchanges and medical aid to other countries, to participate in major health activities initiated by international organizations. To organize and coordinate medical and health exchanges and collaborations between China and the World Health Organization and other international organizations.
11. To implement the policy of emphasizing both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, promote the inheritance and innovation of traditional Chinese medicine and realize its modernization.
12. To conduct routine work of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee.

13. To be responsible for the medical and health care of objects as defined by the Central Health Care Committee, to administer the medical care of related cadres of the central government institutions according to relevant regulations.
14. To coordinate and dispatch the nationwide technical health capacity, to assist local governments and relevant institutions in emergency response to major epidemics and diseases and prevention and control the epidemic situation and diseases from happening and spreading.
15. To undertake other assignments as designated by the State Council.
As mandated by the State Council, to administer the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

1. General Office
• Phone:010-68792079;Fax:010-68792082
•    To coordinate generally administrative affairs of the Ministry; to formulate work rules for the Ministry; to be responsible for the organization of the annual work meetings and other important meetings of the Ministry, supervision for implementation of important directives of the ministers and important administrative work, secretary affairs, administrative information, confidential wprk and duty shifts; to be responsible for the document processing, archives management, press and publicity and administration of newspapers and magazines; to be responsible for the coordination of suggestions of the representatives of the NPC and proposals from members of CPPCC; to be responsible for the organization and coordination of the electronic administration of the Ministry; to be responsible for the complaint correspondence, secrets keeping, security and secretarial work to the second front ministerial leaders.
2. Department of Human Resources
• Phone:010-6879 2219;
•   To study and formulate development programs for health human resources, organize general studies on the functions of the health institutions, formulate standards, payroll and welfare standards for health staff; to coordinate and administer the qualification verification and access for health professional and technical personnel; to be responsible for the staffing of the Ministry departments and administration of state civil servants; to coordinate comprehensively the post training of health management across the country, be responsible for the organization of trainings for related cadres of the Ministry and directly affiliated institutions; to be responsible for the staffing plans, labor payrolls, position titles, experts admin as well as the appointment and dismissals of leading cadres of the directly affiliated institutions; to be responsible for the comprehensive administration, organization and coordination of national groups in the health sector, be responsible for the national level honoring work in the health organization; to guide reform of personnel allocation system in the health undertakings.
3. Department of Planning and Finance
• Phone:010-68792176;Fax:010-68792175
•     To study and formulate medium and long term development programs for the health undertakings, guide regional health planning, plan and coordinate national health resources allocations; to study and put forward health economy policies and service rates policies and organize their inspections; to organize and formulate regulations and rules financial administrations, national health construction and equipment standards, formulate department budgets; to coordinate the utilization of foreign investments; to be responsible for the financial affairs of the Ministry, administration and supervision of state-owned assets; to be responsible for internal audit; to organize the administration and supervision of finance affairs and assets, capital construction and equipment of the affiliated managed) institutions of the Ministry; to be responsible for work of supporting the poor and assisting Tibet.
4. Department of Health Policy and Regulation
• Phone:010-6879 2114;Fax:010-6879 2883
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5. Emergency Office
• Phone:010-6879 2341;Fax:010-6879 2590
•     To organize and coordinate emergency responses to the sudden public health events according to law; to be responsible for drafting of laws, regulations in respect of emergency response to sudden public health events; to organize and formulate guidelines, policies and measures on emergency response to sudden public health events; to organize and improve monitoring and precaution alarm system for public health events; to formulate precaution plans for emergency response to sudden public health events, organize plan rehearsals; organize trainings of public health and medical aid professionals on emergency response knowledge and operation techniques on addressing sudden public health events, guide various localities in implementing precaution plans for sudden public health events, assist and guide localities in addressing other sudden events and rescue and treatment of injured and the ill; to undertake the organization and coordination of the public health issues in disaster rescues, anti-terrorism, poisoning, radiation and other major safety accidents; to organize emergency medical rescues in major injury and fatal accident.
6. Department of Rural Health Management
• Phone:010-68792580;
•   To study and formulate the reform and development plans and related policies for rural health undertakings; to participate in the formulation of laws, regulations and provisions on rural public health; to formulate plans for rural primary health care, coordinate and guide their implementation and organize their assessment; to be responsible for the comprehensive administration of the new rural cooperation medical care, study and formulate policies for new form of rural cooperation medical care and coordinate, organize and guide their implementation; to study, plan and guide the building of rural health service system; to gather and analyze information about rural health work, coordinate and guide localities in implementing related state policies on rural health; to guide localities in conducting practitioner registration of rural doctors and related administration; to formulate related plans concerning rural public health, basic medical care and talents training in coordination with relevant departments, and assist in their implementation.
7. Health Supervision Bureau
• Phone:010-6879 2389;Fax:010-6879 2387
•   To comprehensively manage health supervision and organize implementation according to law; to study and formulate related law and regulation drafts, standards, policy suggestions, programs, norms and rules for health supervision; to be responsible for the supervision and administration of food, cosmetics, schools, environment, radiation and occupational health etc. according to responsibilities; to supervise and inspect the practice of blood collection and supply by medical institutions and blood-collecting and supply institutions according to law; to rectify and normalize the medical service market; to supervise and inspect the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and local diseases; to coordinate and urge the addressing of related large and serious cases; to supervise and guide the local health supervisions.
8. Department of Maternal and Child Health Care & Com
• Phone:010-6879 2313;Fax:010-6879 2321
•     To study and formulate related laws, regulations and policies on women and children health care and reproductive health, community sanitation, health education and promotion as well as health science popularization; to formulate and implement reforms and development objectives and plans for women and children health care and reproductive health, enhance new-born population quality, community sanitation and health education; to administer, guide and supervise the maternal and infant health care; to formulate construction norms, personnel training plans and special technical standards for the institutions of women and children health care, community sanitation and health education; to be responsible for the administration of information for women and children health care and reproductive health, community sanitation, health education; to formulate and promulgate technical norms for family planning; to coordinate comprehensively the national health promotion and health education, study and formulate policies, regulations and programs on the smoking control across the country.
9. Department of Medical Administration
• Phone:010-6879 2204;Fax:010-6879 2513
•   To participate in the study on the reforms of medical care administration and the reform of the administrative rules of medical care institutions, blood collection and supply institutions; to darft laws, regulations and provisions for the administration of access controls for medical care institutions and blood collection and supply institutions, medical care personnel and clinical application technologies and organize their implementation; to formulate regulations and rules and service norms on diagnoses, nursing, rehabilitation and other medical service administration of medical care institutions, blood collection and supply institutions and organize and guide their implementation; to participate in, study and formulate regulations, provisions and policies on clinical application administration of medicines and medical instruments and organize and guide their implementation; to formulate supervision, assessment and administrative norms for service quality and safety performance of the medical care institutions and blood collection and supply institutions and organize their implementation; to coordinate the organization of assistance of city medical care to rural areas; to assist the emergency medical rescues in major injury and fatal accidents.
10. Disease Prevention and Control Bureau
• Phone:010-6879 2339;Fax:010-6879 2514
•     To be responsible for the national disease prevention and control and patriotic health work ; to study and formulate laws and regulation drafts and policy suggestions on the national disease prevention and control and patriotic health campaign; to formulate prevention and treatment plans and strategies on national major diseases and intervention measures on major issues endangering people’s health and public sanitation, propose and organize the implementation of disease prevention and control plans and major disease prevention and treatment projects and supervise and inspect their implementation; to administer controls and intervention on major diseases and public health in coordination with related departments in order to prevent and control the occurrence of diseases and spreading of epidemics; to undertake the daily routines of the National Patriotic Health Campaign Committee, State Council AIDS Prevention and Control Working Committee and State Council Bilharziasis Prevention and Control Leading Group.
11. Department of Science, Technology & Education
• Phone:010-6879 2230;Fax:010-6879 2234
•   To study and formulate development programs for key medical technologies of the state, determine the priority areas of medical S&T development; to formulate policies and measures for basic medical research, major disease research and application research; to organize and coordinate scientific research breakthrough endeavors on key medicines of the state, guide the popularization, application and science education of the medical S&T achievements; to be responsible for the organization of appraisals of medical high-techs; to coordination centrally the verification and approval work; to formulate development programs of medical education and administrative methods for adult medical education, guide and coordinate the establishment of medical degree titles and high and mid level medical educations; to coordinate and administer comprehensively the training for the medical technical positions.
12. Department of International Cooperation
• Phone:010-6879 2285;Fax:010-6879 2286
•   To administer centrally foreign affairs relating to health; to be responsible for the organization and guidance on multilateral and bilateral government and private cooperation and exchanges and be responsible for the organization and implementation of health assistance; to organize and participate in major large events about health care initiated and encouraged by international organizations; to organize and coordinate exchanges and cooperation of our country with WHO and other international organizations in the field of medicines and health; to be responsible for the provision of epidemic information of major diseases to the outside; to administer centrally the foreign affairs operations and activities of the Ministry; to be responsible for the organization and coordination of review and verification of cooperation and exchanges with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in medical and health care areas; to assist the personnel department in recommending staff to be dispatched by the Ministry to undertake long term work abroad; to guide and supervise the implementation of international health cooperation projects.
13. Bureau of Health Care
• Phone:010-6879 2426;Fax:010-6879 2286
•    To be responsible for the medical and health care and preventive health care for the special health care targets as determined by the Central Health Care Committee (CHCC), take charge of the organization of the medical and health care and medical disease prevention for important CPC party and state conferences and major activities, be responsible for medical care arrangement for VIP foreign guests, administer the medical and health care for related cadres of various departments of the central government, senior intellectuals and united front objects; to be responsible for the daily routines of the Central Health Care Committee Office and be responsible for the administration of the CHCC health care expenses.