Exploration of reform and development of public health system in new era

There are many risks for public health and safety such as new outbreaks, imported and unknown contagious diseases, although the incidence of communicable diseases has been controlled well in general.This represents many opportunities and challenges in the development of public health with Chinese socialist characteristics in new era."Healthy China" is part of the national strategic plan and an important ingredient of "Chinese Dreams" for the rehabilitation of Chinese Nation.The functions of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as a very important part of public health system, should be clarified and defined again.CDC needs to be modernized under the contents and balanced in the following aspects:public welfare and professionalism, wartime or peacetime, hierarchy with provincial/municipal county tiers.The new technologies such as internet+, big data, artificial intelligence, precision medicine, health insurance should be applied and combined in innovative models, be developed in multiple directions, and be collaborated broadly.The aims are to develop a new and reasonable way to meet the new era requirement and the needs of developing public health law.Then public health will greatly contribute to the building of "Healthy China".