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Abstract Malaria was once one of the most serious public health problems in China, with more than 30 million malaria cases annually before 1949. However, the disease burden has sharply declined and the epidemic areas has shrunken after the implementation of an integrated malaria control and elimination strategy, especially since 2000. Till now, China has successfully scaled up its efforts to become malaria-free and is currently being evaluated for malaria-free certification by the WHO. In the battle against malaria, China’s efforts have spanned generations, reducing from an incidence high o...

A microbiologist in China examines blood samples as part of the malaria control program December 16, 2020 – In 2010, China announced one of its most ambitious undertakings in public health: It planned to eliminate indigenous cases of malaria within a decade. The disease had a long and lethal history in the country—it’s estimated that, in 1940, China had as many as 30 million cases of malaria resulting in 300,000 deaths—and the parasite that causes it remained widespread in the early 2000s. But by leveraging technology, implementing robust surveillance strategies, and firmly integrati...