The National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (NHC) was established in accordance with the Decision of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions, the Program for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions, and the Program for the Institutional Reform of the State Council, which was approved at the First Meeting of the Thirteenth National People's Congress (NPC) and adopted by the Third Plenum of the 19th National People's Congress (NPC). The NHSC is a constituent department of the State Council and is at the level of a full ministry.
People's health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national strength. In order to promote the implementation of the health of China strategy, establish the concept of big health, big health, the treatment of disease as the center to the people's health as the center, prevention and control of major diseases, and actively respond to population aging, accelerate the development of the cause of aging and industrial development, for the people to provide a full range of full-circle health services, the program put forward, will be the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the State Council to deepen the reform of the medical and health system leading group Office of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the Office of the National Working Committee on Aging, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to lead the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control compliance responsibilities, the State Administration of Work Safety supervision and management of occupational safety and health supervision and management responsibilities are integrated, the formation of the National Health Commission as a constituent department of the State Council.