Summary Meeting of Western China Child Road Safety Project and Child Road Safety Exchange Activity under WHO Collaborating Centre Successfully Held

On 21 November 2025, the summary meeting and training workshop of the Western China Child Road Safety Project, hosted by the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), was held in Beijing. In conjunction with the workshop, the center also organised a child road safety exchange activity, which was one of the main activities of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Injury Prevention and Control in 2025.

Leaders attending the workshop included Wang Meng, Level 3 Investigator of the Division of Immunization of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, Huang Xiaona, maternal and child health specialist at the Child Health and Development Section of the UNICEF China Office, and Wu Jing, Director of the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention of China CDC. International experts from WHO headquarters, Malaysia, Thailand and Viet Nam took part. Experts from the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, the Research Institute of Highway of the Ministry of Transport, and other institutions also joined, together with representatives from local public security traffic management departments, education authorities, and CDCs across the country. The workshop was livestreamed online, and in total about one thousand participants attended online and onsite.

The workshop reviewed the outcomes and lessons learned from the Western China Child Road Safety Project. It presented the project’s educational toolkit and a road infrastructure safety assessment tool for areas around schools, and shared the latest research progress in child road traffic injury prevention in China and internationally. The event further strengthens the professional capacity of injury prevention staff within the CDC system, enhances interdepartmental and international exchange and cooperation, and supports the ongoing development of child road safety work in China.

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