各位来宾、女士们、先生们，　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　首先，让我代表中华人民共和国政府，代表吴仪副总理，对来自世界各国的朋友，中国各地的专家学者、在医药卫生战线从事科研、教学、预防、医疗、护理、管理、生产、销售的朋友们，表示热烈欢迎，并致以崇高的敬意!对北京国际心血管病论坛的召开表示热烈祝贺，并预祝论坛成功!
　　心脑血管病造成全球11％的疾病负担，33~／60的死亡，其中3／4发生在低、中收入国家。城市化、不健康生活习惯、寿命延长是三个造成心血管病大流行的主要原因。中国人民正在中国政府的领导下，开展现代化建设。我们对西方工业化进程中出现的健康问题，特别是心脑血管病大流行的问题，并没有天然的免疫力。从1958年到现在，中国的高血压患病率增加3倍，心脑血管病增加4倍，占中国总死亡率的36％，是致残的首位原因，每年耗掉近3000亿元人民币。每15秒就有一位中国公民被心脑血管病夺去生命，每22秒就有一位中国公民因此失去工作能力。进入80年代，中国实行开放政策，朝城市化方向发展，人民生活水平提高，寿命延长。与此同时，人口拥挤、空气污染、空前的人口流动、不良生活习惯、大鱼大肉、香烟美酒、汽车代步、体育节目取代体育煅练、老龄化，向我们提出了新问题。如果我们不去解决这些问题，到2020年，缺血性心脏病会成为危害中国人的头号疾病。　　
　　勿容置疑，上世纪的科学技术进步，使人类寿命增长50％，超过了几千年增长的总和。近50年，中国人民的寿命延长了90％。但是，人类社会仍然面临最大的健康敌人一一心脑血管病的挑战。到2020年，全世界将会有2500万人死于心血管病，而3／4将会发生在低、中收入国家。在低、中收入国家，文化水平低、性别歧视、贫穷是心脑血管病预防与控制的障碍。为了改善人民的生活，提高人民的收入，促进人民健康，我们引入了市场机制。但市场只能促进效率，并不能解决公平问题。文化水平低、贫穷、性别歧视、城市化、不良生活习惯带来的心血管病大流行，不公平分享医疗资源，需要政府动员各方力量，通过法律手段调控，平衡。但，很遗憾，目前，全世界有大于57％的国家无心血管病专门政策，65％的国家无心血管病专门防治机构，从而使国家层面上迎战心血管病大流行的平衡、调控功能，显得苍白无力。　　
　　为了更好地团结、协调全国的力量开展心血管病防治研究，今天，我正式宣布卫生部心血管病防治研究中心成立。这个中心将会被赋予更多的资源与更大的责任，发挥其专业与技术知识优势，与全国人民一起共同努力，争取在未来10年内使我国心脑血管病发病率下降10-20％，每年挽救21-42万人的生命，使15万到30万人免于残废。　　
　　人民大众、医药院校，研究机构，学术团体，心脏病协会，高血压协会，糖尿病协会等专业组织对遏制心脑血管病大流行负有责任。但，他们的努力不能取代政府的努力，中国政府责无旁贷地负有保护其公民健康的责任。今天的论坛，中国卫生部心脑血管病防治中心的成立，就是中国政府征服心脑血管病所作努力的一部分。我们不会坐视，每15秒就有一个中国人，因心脑血管病而倒下的悲剧长此下去。　　
　　我们的医疗防病体制很不健全，存在很多弊端，需要建设，需要改革。改革的目标是满足人民大众的基本医疗需求，使人人有机会享受医疗服务。同时应提倡、促进竞争，提高效率与医疗质量，合理使用新技术。在这些方面，我们需要与全世界各国交流经验。
　　我们而对的健康问题越来越复杂。有效解决这些问题，越来越多地依靠科学技术进步，依靠国际合作。全世界科学家携手，共破人类生命的密码，可能会对诊断治疗疾病，包括心脑血管病在内，带来革命性的变化。我们有责任使这些奇迹惠及全体国民。我们期望与各国政府、人民、各种有关的国际组织，建立伙伴关系，促进理解、预防、控制威胁人类的心脑血管病，在互惠互信、平等互利的基础上，利用有限的资源，寻找心脑血管病危险因素，监控心脑血管病危险因素，提出防治心脑血管病措施，加强研究开发治疗心脑血管病的新一代药物与诊断仪器。　　
　　今天，经济、商贸、文化、旅游活动的全球化，使疾病与不健康的生活方式伴随着人员与货物交流，毒品泛滥，恐怖活动，越过边界，使发展中国家与发达国家同受其害。去年春夏之交，SARS流行，证明疾病很难被控制在一个国家的边界内。这使我们更渴望国际合作。距离、时间、空间、肤色、语言、文化、历史、价值观、政治制度无法阻止我们合作的决心。因为我们都关心健康与疾病问题。为此，人家不约而同地来到北京，共同研讨如何对付心脑血管病的威胁。中国是个发展中国家，人口多，底子薄，我们史需要，更应当把预防放在征服心血管病的首位。预防为主，仍然是我们的基本国策。中国医务界，今天在座的专家们，一定会不负众望，发扬优良传统，通过与国际同行的不懈努力，找到有效预防心脑血管病的方法：实施有益于病人、有益于家庭、有益丁医院、有益于医疗保健机构、有益于保险公司、有益于政府的预防措施，让心血管病低头。
　　我们坚信：　　心脑血管病能被预防，　　心脑血管病可被治疗，　　宝贵的生命能被挽救，　　不幸的残废可以避免!　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　谢谢!
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Friends,　　
On behalf of Wu Yi, the vice-premier, Minister, the Ministry of Public Health, and ChineseGovernment, I am pleased to extend my sincere thanks, warmest welcome and great appreciation to all distinguished guests, and physicians, surgeons, scientists, researchers and friends, in the Field of medicine, biomedicine, and in academic and educational institutions, pharmaceutical　industry for being here today.　　Under the leadership of our government, Chinese people are working so hard to build our nation as　prosperous and as modern as possible, and to make this land　Full of promise. We are not naturally immuned from the　health problems --epidemic of cardiovascular disease,　happened in western country on the way to industrialization.　　Chinese have had, in the past, and are going to continually have, in the future, the heavy health burden of cardiovascular disease. The prevalence has increased to 3 times for hypertension, 4 times for cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases since 1958. The mortality of these diseases are responsible for one third of all adult death, constituted the leading cause of disability, consumed 40 billion US dollars for one year in China. In every 20 seconds, one Chinese citizen' s life is deprived of cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases. In every 22 seconds, one Chinese is disabled due to the same disease.　　In 1980s, our nation more widely opened our door and moved to the city-ward direction. The city-ward movement brings us new challenge, with people' s living standard improving, the movement of people is rapidly increased, so do the legal and illegal goods, together with air pollution, adopted unhealthy lifestyle, meat, cigarettes, alcohol, walking replaced by car, physical exercise replaced by TV program of sport, all of these lead to epidemic of heart and brain vessel illness ahead. If we ignore these problems, is chemic heart and brain diseases will remain the number one killer.　　Last century we benefited form developments of science and technology, 50% of our life expectancy were obtained in the last half century worldwide, 90% for Chinese. Even these progresses, cardiovascular problems remain the major global burden of disease.　　Since 1970, 40% of disability and death have been reduced in United States by preventing and treating cardiovascular disease and stroke. In 1990s, this favorable trend slowed, sudden death with first heart attack remains a common problem resistant to high-tech approaches, sudden death is still the first, last and the only symptom in one of every 6 heart attacks, 30% 40% of heart attacks are asymptomatic, because either silent or atypical.　　The person with diffused atherosclerotic diseases may not suffer from heart attack, the one who has normal coronary angiography can not be for sure free of heart attack. We need to know who is at risk, what are the risk factors. We need to find and implement the prevention measures to save lives.　　Professional organizations, such as Heart Association, Hypertension Society, and Diabetes Association universities, research institutions, and academic organizations, committed long to the events, their efforts can not replace Chinese government' s attention and action. Today' s forum is a part of efforts from my administration. We can no longer' allow the cardiovascular tragedy happen every 13 seconds.　　All nations face converging health problems of growing complexity. The effective solutions to these problems rely on science, technology and international cooperation. Scientists are now decoding the blueprinting of human life; these will revolution the diagnosis and treatment of illness including cardiovascular disease. It is our responsibility to bring the hope to the deadly needed patients and the patients having no cure now.　　We will and are going to build the partnership on mutual trust and equality with national and international, government and non-government organizations to promote understanding, preventing and controlling cardiovascular disease. To relocate the limited resource for searching, developing and producing new generation of drugs and diagnostic tools, and for control of cardiovascular risk factors.　　We hardly ignore our differences due to living distance, time, space, color, language, culture background, history, value, political systems, but health and disease are universal human concern. We will put our difference aside, and focus on health and disease, cardiovascular diseases.　　Today, globalization of economic, trade, culture, travel leads to the unhealthy life style cross the border and traveled with people, goods, drugs, and terrorists, harms indiscriminately both the developing and the developed nations. Last summer, SARS epidemic in China indicates that disease can not be retained within the border and remind us the importance of international collaboration.　　Challenge is for sure ahead; Chinese bad its best in medicine in history. From 4000 years ago, "Shen-nong Bencaojing" (神农本草经) told us how to kill pain, induce sedation, relief asthma. These old fashions are still practiced today. "Huang Di Nei Jing” (皇帝内经) described "circulation" 2000 years earlier than did Williams Harvey.　　In the past, we respected our ancestors and their achievements too much to challenge our knowledge. These resulted in Chinese medicine left far behind industrial country, and taught us a lesson.　　Now we must choose whether the example of our grand - grand fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show our courage, and confront problems instead of passing them onto future generation.　　By the efforts of ours, and by the efforts of international communities, we can find the measures that prevent and treat heart and brain problems effectively and efficiently, to benefit patients, families, hospitals, healthy industry, insurance industry and government.　　We believe, cardiovascular disease can be conquered, cardiovascular diseases can be prevented and cured. Life can be saved. Disability can be avoided.　　Thank you for your attention.