[Recognition of the vaccination: a key and important strategy in controlling vaccine preventable diseases]

China has achieved an outstanding accomplishment in combating infectious diseases, which has contributed to health improvement and prolongation of life expectancy, and health development globally. Among strategies for combating infectious diseases, vaccination is a key component. However, immunization rates have fallen sharply as a result of false information, inconvenient access to vaccination, and distrust which together can lead to "vaccine hesitancy", eventually resulting in the risk of endemic vaccine-preventable disease. By analyzing the importance of vaccination and its determinants, it should be recognized that vaccination is necessary to protect children's health, and considered as a key national policy with forceful strategies for the control of vaccine-preventable diseases.