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13:47, December 25, 2007 |
In May, the state council approved to set up the China Anti-Doping Agency, which serves as an independent government anti-doping department more emphasizing on conducting tests and scientific researches and will carry out about 4,500 tests during the Beijing Olympics in its state-of-art lab.
The central government called a meeting in August, aiming to combine efforts from 11 major government departments to combat doping more effectively.
The coordination group, chaired by SGAS director Liu Peng, consists of experts and officials from ministries including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Health, China Customs, the State Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the State Food and Drug Administration, and the Legislative Office of the State Council, as well as the Organizing Committee of Beijing Olympic Games.
"We are aware that effective doping control is not confined within the sport arena, but needs the efforts by all government and social departments as well as cooperation from the international community," said Duan Shijie, vice director of SGAS, at November's World Conference on Doping in Sport in Madrid.
Education is another way to help prevent doping.
Jiang said they held anti-doping exhibitions, gave lectures and organized anti-doping exams among young athletes to let athletes understand harms of doping.
"I always think education is a powerful weapon in our anti-doping fight," he said.
China's efforts were recognized by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Dick Pound, the then WADA president who once accused China of inadequate doping tests, said during his September trip to China and then at the world anti-doping conference that China had become a "vanguard" of anti-doping in the world.
Source: Xinhua
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