Bulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public HealthBulletin of Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health2415-84102415-8429FSSBI «N.A. Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health»2458Научная статьяSchistosomiasis control in China in the second half of the twentieth centuryMikhelD. V.mikhel-dv@ranepa.ruRussian Presidential Academy of national Economy and Public Administration151220223778009082022Copyright © 2022,2022Since 1950, the fight against schistosomiasis began in China as part of patriotic campaigns for public health. Initially the disease was the subject of attention of the military leadership, who perceived it as a threat to China security, but then it became a matter for the party and state authorities, who saw it as a cause of decreased productivity. In 1955, at Mao Zedong's initiative, the fight against schistosomiasis became a national cause, involving millions of peasants who were called upon to destroy the intermediate carriers of the disease, Oncomelania snails. During the years of the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese authorities succeeded in achieving unprecedented social mobilization for the struggle for public health. During the Cultural Revolution, thousands of health workers were sent to villages to treat schistosomiasis patients. During the Reform period, the forms of schistosomiasis control changed, but in the public mind, these campaigns were perceived to have been successful. In contemporary China, the schistosomiasis control has become more technological, but the experience of mass public mobilization in the face of the epidemic is still relevant, especially in the context of the fight against coronavirus infection.Chinapublic healthschistosomiasismass mobilizationКитайобщественное здоровьешистосомозмассовая мобилизация1.Andrews B. The making of Modern China medicine, 1850-1960. Vancouver: UBC press; 2014:294.2.Xinzhong Yu. Epidemics and public health in twentieth-century China: plague, smallpox, and AIDS. Andrews B., Brown Bullock M. (eds.) Medical transitions in twentieth-century China. Bloomington: Indiana university press; 2014:91 -105.3.Gross M., Fan K. Schistosomiasis. Andrews B., Brown Bullock M. (eds.) Medical transitions in twentieth-century China. Bloomington: Indiana university press; 2014:106-125.4.Zhou Xun. The people’s health: Health intervention and delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s university press; 2020:369.5.Sandbach F. R. Farewell to the God of Plague - control of schistosomiasis in China. Social science and medicine. 1977; 11(1):27-33.6.Komiya Y. Recommendatory note for the control problem of Schistosomiasis in China. Japanese journal of medical science and biology. 1957; 10(6):461-471.7.Fan К. Mass mobilization and the anti-schistosomiasis campaign in Maoist China (1955-1960). Handbook of disease outbreaks: Prevention, detection and control. Holmgren A., Borg G. (eds.) Hauppauge, NY: Nova science publishers; 2010:277-293.8.Fan K. Film propaganda and the anti-schistosomiasis campaign in communist China. Sungkyun journal of East Asian studies. 2012; 12(1):1-17.9.Li V. H. Politics and health care in China: The barefoot doctors. Stanford law reviews. 1975; 27(3):827-840.