A project on the city's three-year public health construction was passed and put into practice by the Shanghai Patriotic Public Health Campaign Committee Friday.
With its ultimate aim to shape Shanghai into a healthy city, the project will focus on promoting urban eco-system, improving city living environment and upgrading people's awareness of the importance of public health.
According to the plan, by 2005, Shanghai will rank top level on public health conditions among national big cities. The plan encompasses indicators as a healthy Shanghai such as no stinky rivers, 80 percent of rain drainage system, 70 percent of sewage treatment, 99 percent of tap water coverage in rural areas, 85 percent of air quality above fairly good level and 37 percent of green coverage.
Shanghai will also upgrade disease control and prevention and healthy reproduction service in various communities, villages, counties and districts respectively in the three years.
The project also required a yearly progress in dealing with emergent cases. By 2005, knowledge on reproduction and AIDS shall cover 80 percent of the citizens. A total of 277 public libraries and 100 large culture squares shall be available for citizens.
Constructing healthy city has been a strategy proposed by the World Health Organization in the 1980s to cope with challenges brought by urbanization.
(Xinhua News Agency April 12, 2003)
