Who director general Tan Desai said at the 75th World Health Assembly on the 23rd that due to the interference of the new coronavirus pandemic, although the WHO and member states have made great achievements in improving global public health and people's health in the past five years, the progress in achieving the who "three billion" goal has fallen far behind the plan, There is an urgent need in the future to achieve the target results by strengthening who's leadership in global public health affairs. At the 71st who conference in 2018, who proposed a plan with the "three billion" goals as the core to guide the work from 2019 to 2023, that is, 1 billion more people will be covered by national health benefits, 1 billion more people will be better protected in case of health emergencies, and 1 billion more people will have improved health. Tan Desai said that even before the new coronavirus pandemic, the who estimated that by 2023, the population covered by national health benefits will only increase by 270 million, which is still a gap of 730 million compared with the target of 1 billion. The disruption of the coronavirus pandemic to global health services has further delayed this process, with an estimated gap of 840 million people. He announced that in the next five years, who and its Member States will give priority to five areas, including promoting health, providing health services, protecting health, promoting technological progress and strengthening who implementation. Promoting health means achieving the highest attainable standard of health, starting with schools, streets, supermarkets, families and suburbs, not clinics or hospitals. Governments and health departments need to urgently change their thinking to promote health and well-being at the source and prevent disease. The provision of health services means that the role of the health system should be repositioned and primary health care should be taken as the basis for universal health welfare coverage. At present, the health expenditure in most countries is unbalanced, the proportion of expensive equipment and drugs is too large, and the health benefits are limited. To accelerate universal health benefits coverage, all countries need to significantly increase investment in primary health care. Tan Desai said that all these visions need a stronger who to achieve. To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the leadership role of the organization in global public health affairs, with a focus on reforming who's funding sources and increasing the assessed contributions of Member States to 50 per cent of the WHO core budget from less than 20 per cent today over the next decade. Who stipulates that Member States should pay a corresponding amount of assessed contributions according to their wealth and population status. Member States had previously launched long-term negotiations on increasing the proportion of assessed contributions. (Xinhua News Agency)