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China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-21 07:33
Plan to combat chronic diseases
The State Council, China's Cabinet, released a medium-and long-term plan for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases from 2017-25. According to the plan, China's core target will be lowering premature mortality rates caused by major chronic diseases. The plan said that by 2020, the country's premature mortality rate, caused mainly by cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes should be reduced by 10 percent compared with 2015 and by 2025 the rate should be cut by 20 percent. Sixteen concrete tasks for reducing the premature mortality rate were put forward in the plan.
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