Health Minister Chen Zhu said they will strengthen monitoring, emergency response and medical treatment for rabies, bird flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), as well as group poisonings.
"Great effort will be made in preventing rabies, bird flu, SARS and group poisonings," Chen said to Xinhua News Agency.
Since the SARS outbreak in 2002, China has invested $76.3 million to gradually improve its national disease prevention and control system, particularly the construction of disease prevention and control centers nationwide.
The minister added: "The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games provides a great opportunity for the country's public health development. Beijing will join hands with co-host cities and its neighboring provinces to strengthen disease-related information monitoring and make risk evaluations on the possible public health accidents."
Chen said rehearsals would be held and exercises in public health accidents would be improved before the summer games.
Beijing Olympic organizers plan to rehearse almost everything for the Olympics, including audience participation, the right way of cheering for every sport, and the dance and cultural show at the start and closing ceremonies.
Xinhua also quoted Liu Zejun, director of Beijing Municipal Disease Prevention and Control Center, as saying that special attention would be paid to epidemic disease spread, group incidence of a certain disease, food-inflicted disease, vector organism and its control, hotel disinfection, drinking water safety, environment safety and heat stroke.
