China plans to step up the intergovernmental coordination mechanism and formulate a series of policies to better tackle health challenges brought by climate change, according to an action plan released on Wednesday.

By 2025, China will strengthen constructing a monitoring system for diseases that are sensitive to climate change and develop methods for assessing climate change's effects on health, according to the document jointly released by the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration and 12 other government departments.

It added that a first round of evaluations on health risks linked to climate change and the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of society to climate change should also be completed by 2025. A list of scientific research tasks aimed at addressing emerging challenges will be drawn up.