Officials, academicians, experts, and scholars from public health and medical fields all over the country will join the Healthy Shanghai Studio, the first large-scale live broadcast program on health topics set at the venue of the ongoing third China International Import Expo (CIIE).

They will discuss the latest orientations and developments in the health sector in the program, which was established by the Shanghai Health Promotion Commission Office and will run till the conclusion of the CIIE on Nov 10.

Experts will touch upon topics, including health reforms, medical security systems, internet plus medicine, accessibility of innovative therapies, oncology treatment, chronic disease management and traditional Chinese medicine, which were in the interest of the public, according to the office.

Shanghai's practice of preventing and controlling the virus' spread under the COVID-19 pandemic will be a focus of discussion as well. Experts will also talk about how to enrich content and methods to transform the municipality's experience of battling the epidemic into a sustainable everyday health habit for its residents.

Visitors at the venue can watch the live broadcast of the programs through a big screen outside a glass studio covering an area of more than 30 square meters in the expo's health exhibition zone.

Health is a cornerstone for Shanghai to build itself into a global city of excellence. The Shanghai Health Promotion Commission Office said that the municipality was the country's first provincial-level region to release a medium- and long-term health action plan in August 2019.

The main health indicators for residents of Shanghai have been keeping at an advanced level in parallel with developed countries and regions for consecutive years.