A mission dispatched by the WHO, headed with its Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda has visited on November 11-12, 2009 the Chinese National Influenza Center (CNIC) in its new campus. CNIC as a part of the Chinese Center of Disease Control (China CDC) has contributed greatly in recent years to control influenza events within the China and worldwide. WHO mission has supported the request of the Government of PRChina to designate CNIC as the 5th WHO Influenza Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on Influenza.