The meeting was jointly convened by the Ministry of Health of the Central People's Government and the Ministry of Health of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government. Representatives attending and attending the meeting were: official representative 42 1 person, non-voting representative 16 1 person, including representatives from the central government and major administrative regions and military systems in North China, Northeast China, Northwest China, East China, South China and Southwest China, including medicine and health.
The meeting was presided over by Li Dequan, Minister of Health, and He Cheng, Vice Minister of Health and Minister of General Logistics Department of PLA, made a report at the meeting.
The main task of the meeting is to discuss and implement the guidelines set by the National Health Administration Conference held by the Ministry of Health of the Central Military Commission in September and October of 1949, sum up experience, and formulate the general guidelines and tasks of the national health work in 1950.
The meeting unanimously agreed that "facing the workers, peasants and soldiers", "giving priority to prevention" and "combining traditional Chinese and western medicine" should be the three major policies of health work in new China.
The meeting held that Chinese medicine has a long history, a large number and a wide distribution in China, and it is an indispensable force to protect the health of people in China. We must support and protect them for a long time, let them learn scientific theories and help them sum up experience. At the same time, western medicine must also pay attention to the living habits of China people and learn the rural style of Chinese medicine close to the masses. It is particularly important for Chinese and western medicine to closely unite under the goal of serving the people.
Mao Zedong wrote an inscription for this meeting: unite the old and new medical personnel from all over China and the West to form a consolidated United front and strive for the great people's health cause!
1952, Zhou Enlai put forward the policy of "combining health work with mass movements" according to Mao Zedong's call of "mobilizing and attaching importance to health". Since then, the four principles of facing workers, peasants and soldiers, giving priority to prevention, combining traditional Chinese and western medicine, and combining health work with mass movements have pointed out the direction for the development of health undertakings in new China.