The change we bring : progress report 2016-2017

The China of today bears little resemblance to the China of 35 years ago. Now an upper-middle-income country, it has built world-class health systems to address communicable disease – a necessary foundation to address the rising

burden of noncommunicable diseases, which now account for 85% of deaths in China.

Reflecting this changing landscape, two years ago WHO and China's National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) launched a new WHO China Country Cooperation Strategy. The new strategy and the ways in which it is implemented in China is, in many ways, a window into a new WHO.