Dr. Dayi Hu has talked about the use of risk factor modification in Beijing. What’s your advice on how to improve the risk factor modification in the future......
<International Circulation>:So how does that serve to give you a vision of the future?
May Chen: Well, there are several main areas that the Chinese want to reform. And this money, the 124 billion, is only for the years 2009 to 2011. hopefully, and I am sure there will be, more funds appropriated for this. To me that is a very sharp contrast to what the US health reform has been so far. I think the Obama administration will pass something. But people are still arguing about ‘how are we going to pay for it?’. But the Chinese have already committed to paying for it. I am very, very happy to see that the Chinese government is doing this run of reform. It is high-time that they do. I am impressed to see the leadership behind this push. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao really have the goal to build the harmonious society where every one is happy. It’s the theme. Now you can say that’s just a slogan, but I think that’s being too cynical. You’ve go so many problems; you have got to start somewhere. So you that for everyone to be happy, there are the goals and these are the things to do. I think this wonderful to see and I am very happy to see it. So I would attribute this to the success of bringing this run of health reform about. And the success about what Professor Hu was say about the things that are happening in Beijing and Shanghai – smoke free by 2011 – I attribute to one word which I talk about a lot: leadership. Because leaders make things happen, I really mean it. I see this over and over and over in every country: it learship that makes things happen. People makes things happen.