1. The newly established National Health and Wellness Committee will include the tobacco control responsibilities of the former Health Planning Commission, the Office of the Medical Reform Group, the Office of the Committee on Aging, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the occupational safety and health responsibilities of the Work Safety Supervision Bureau.
2. The Ministry system can clarify the main body of responsibility, reduce the internal friction and resistance of medical reform, and coordinate more smoothly;
3. The new "Health Committee" has the characteristics of integrating functions, streamlining institutions, unifying powers and responsibilities, strengthening overall planning, reducing disputes and improving efficiency. Generally speaking, it has the characteristics of "unity", "combination", "clarity", "strength" and "simplicity" in institutions and responsibilities;
4. Changing "Health Planning Commission" into "Health and Wellness Commission" embodies that "health runs through all policies and health is integrated into all strategies", which is conducive to putting prevention first and promoting the construction of "healthy China".
The National Health and Wellness Commission is responsible for carrying out population monitoring and early warning, formulating fertility policies, studying and proposing policy suggestions on the quantity, quality, structure and distribution of population related to fertility, promoting the convergence of fertility policies with relevant economic and social policies, participating in the formulation of population development plans and policies, and implementing relevant tasks in the national population development plan.