Accomplishment of Malaria Elimination in the People’s Republic of China”, edited by Marcel Tanner, Jian-Hai Yin, Xiao-Nong Zhou, was published as the volume 116 of Advances in Parasitology in June 15, 2022. This special volume was compiled to to congratulate China on malaria-free that certified by the World Health Organization on 30 June 2021. The book was meanwhile introduced to the Sixth Symposium on Surveillance-Response Systems Leading to Tropical Disease Elimination between June 14 and 15, 2022.

This volume led by Prof. Xiao-Nong Zhou from the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at China CDC, and supported by an expert advisory group from WHO, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Yale University, US CDC, China CDC, and Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, etc. A technical working group, consisting of more than 60 experts from Anhui CDC, Henan CDC, Hainan CDC, Jiangsu IPD, Yunnan IPD and Peking University, had reviewed and documented the lessons learnt from the Chinese malaria elimination programme with their experiences from practices and evidence, based on the historical data, expert interviews, and expert seminars, and many rounds of virtual and offline workshops.

       Six chapters in the special volume exemplified the successful strategies of surveillance and response approach that made malaria elimination feasible in subregions of China through a series of case studies. The topics include 1) “1-3-7” approach, 2) control of border malaria, 3) mitigation of malaria in the forest goers, 4) mass drug administration to the population in a high risk of infections, 5) vector control based One Health approach, and 6) discovery of artemisinin for malaria treatment. This special volume of Advances in Parasitology demonstrates the difficult journey of eliminating malaria in China and implies that malaria can be eliminated in other malaria-endemic countries, even in large and highly populated countries with a great diversity of malaria transmission socio-ecosystems. China is willing to make more contributions to a world free of malaria.