The National Health Commission is a ministerial unit in the State Council, which is in charge of national health work. In the official language, it means: implementing the principles, policies and decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee on health work, and upholding and strengthening the Party's centralized and unified leadership over health work in the process of performing its duties.
China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), referred to as China Center for Disease Control and Prevention for short, is a public institution directly under the State Health Commission, which is subordinate to the State Health Commission. As a national disease prevention and control institution, guiding the national disease prevention and control, including various chronic diseases and infectious diseases, such as the COVID-19 epidemic at the end of 20 19, how to prevent and control, how to adopt prevention and control strategies, how to do a good job in vaccination, etc., are all within the work scope of the CDC.
In a word, the National Health Commission is the superior of China CDC, responsible for leading and organizing the deployment. China CDC is a technical unit, which is responsible for providing technical advice for superior decision-making.