1952 National Patriotic Health Month was officially launched, and 1952 launched a vigorous patriotic health campaign nationwide to defend against germ warfare. In the same year, the Central Committee for Epidemic Prevention was established and later renamed Central patriotic health campaign committee. Since then, the patriotic health campaign has been vigorously carried out nationwide, focusing on solving outstanding health problems in people's production and life in different periods.
National Patriotic Health Month has successively carried out a series of work, such as eliminating "four pests", improving water and toilets, "five stresses, four beauties and three loves", cleaning up urban and rural environmental sanitation, creating sanitary towns and building sanitary towns, and achieved remarkable results. Focusing on solving the outstanding health problems in people's production and life in different periods, we will mobilize the broad masses of the people, continuously improve the urban and rural environment, popularize healthy lifestyles, and earnestly safeguard people's health rights and interests.