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Establishes Injury-monitoring Network

The Ministry of Health issued a circular on September 13, ordering the establishment of a national monitoring network on injuries and appointed 43 hospitals throughout the country, including 23 in rural areas and 20 in cities, to do the monitoring.

These 43 monitoring units will be randomly selected and could be replaced by others, the document said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies illness into three categories: infectious diseases, non-infectious diseases, and injuries.

In China, seven to eight million people die of injuries of various kinds, accounting for 11 percent of the total deaths in the country, ranking the fifth among all factors causing deaths among Chinese, according to official figures.

The ministry also issued its "National Plan on the Monitoring of Injury".