Lu Zhangong, vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, spoke at a symposium on improving the national public health network on April 28. 

During the event, which was convened by the Committee on Education, Science, Health and Sport of the CPPCC National Committee, CPPCC members agreed on the need to improve China's public health system and its major epidemic prevention and control mechanism, in order to better safeguard people's health. 

They called for strengthening fiscal support for China's public health system, establishing a talent cultivation mechanism that meets the demands of a modern public health system, enhancing the professionalism and authority of disease control departments in the public interest, improving epidemic control capabilities and public health management at the primary level, and beefing up systems for reporting infectious diseases and public health emergencies.