China Session I

Session
Chairs: Guy F Joos (Ghent, Belgium), NanShan Zhong (Guangzhou, China)
Aims: The session will present and discuss the new advances in respiratory medicine presented by experienced speakers from the ERS leadership and China. The session will offer participants an overview on pulmonary vascular medicine, sleep disorders, interventional respiratory medicine, COPD and tuberculosis, and the possibility to discuss similarities and differences in Europe and China.
Target audience: Clinicians and public health practitioners working on different fields of respiratory medicine, and policy makers responsible for implementing policies in respiratory medicine.

Asthma control: how can it be improved Guy F Joos (Ghent, Belgium)
The research progress on pulmonary vascular diseases in China Zhenguo Zhai (Beijing, China)
2016 China Guideline of Asthma Diagnosis and Management Huahao Shen (Hangzhou, China)