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After the government reshuffle, the Ministry of Healthwill shoulder the new responsibility of comprehensivecoordination of food safety and investigation of majorfood safety incidents.

The Minister of Health Chen Zhu,whose nomination was approved inJune 2007, is China's first cabinetappointment of a person withoutparty affiliation since the late 1970s. Sincehis appointment the media has chasedChen, both because of his special identityand because health care reform is an issueof wide public concern. Beijing-basedGuangming Daily conducted an exclusiveinterview with Chen recently. Here is anexcerpt from the interview published onApril 7.