RECENT ADVANCES OF PERINATAL MEDICINE IN CHINA

<正>Perinatal medicine, known also as maternal and fetal medicine, is a new branch of medicine with only a history of 30 years. China has started the perinatal medicine since 1979. The 1st Session of Pan-China Meeting of Perinatal Medicine was held in Shanghai in 1981. In 1983, experts from 8 European countries discussed the development and popularization of perinatal medicine and surveillance technology with the Chinese scholars in Euro-China Consultation on Perinatal Surveillance in Beijing, as jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Health of Chinese Government and WHO-EURO. In the following years, 3 training centers were installed in Shanghai, Wuhan and Harbin by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and the Ministry of Health. China. Series of courses on perinatal surveillance technology were given yearly for 7 years to about 1 000 participants from all the leading universities and municipal hospitals in all provinces of China, with subsequent rapid propagation of technology all over Ch