同志们: 1999年全国卫生厅局长会议今天开幕了。本次会议的主要任务是:以邓小平理论和党的十五大精神为指导,总结1998年贯彻落实《中共中央、国务院关于卫生改革与发展的决定》的情况,部署1999年卫生工作,动员全国广大卫生工作者高举邓小平理论伟大旗帜,进一步更新观念,统一思想,坚定信心,知难而进,加快卫生改革与发展步伐,加强卫生法制建设,为实现到2000年初步建立起具有中国特 Comrades: The meeting of chief directors of the National Department of Health was opened today in 1999. The main tasks of this meeting are to follow the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the spirit of the 15th Party Congress and summarize the implementation of the “Decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Health Reform and Development” in 1998, deploy the health work in 1999 and mobilize the entire nation The majority of health workers held high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory, further updated their concepts, unified their thinking, strengthened their confidence, stepped themselves in their difficulties, accelerated the pace of health reform and development, and strengthened the building of the health and legal system. In order to achieve the goal of establishing a special