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A two-day anti-SARS symposium opened here Tuesday morning, and more than 100 health officials and experts will exchange information and seek regional and international cooperation in containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic.
The meeting, "ASEAN, China, Japan and ROK (10+3) High-level Symposium on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome," was a follow-up to the joint declaration proclaimed at the Special China-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on SARS held on April 29 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi attended the opening ceremony, and Vice Health Minister Gao Qiang delivered the opening address.
Also present at the seminar were delegates from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), the World Health Organization, and health officials from Mongolia, the United States, Britain, France and Canada.
Cameroon and Russian embassies in China also sent delegates to the meeting.
Editor: Liao Ming
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