Xinjiang to try to stop polio at border

URUMQI - Xinjiang is at the frontline of preventing the import of wild poliovirus and maintaining China's polio-free status, a public heath official has said.

"Polio eradication worldwide has reached the final stage, but Xinjiang is still at a high risk of wild poliovirus," Wang Yu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told China Daily on the sidelines of a two-day international workshop on polio eradication, which ended on Friday in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Of the four polio-endemic countries in the world, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan, Xinjiang neighbors three.