The Beijing Municipal Tobacco Control Ordinance, known as the "toughest tobacco control order in history," has been in effect for more than two years, and data show that 1,245 units in Beijing have been subjected to administrative penalties, *** counting fines of more than 3 million yuan.

On Nov. 8, the Beijing Municipal Tobacco Control Association and the Beijing Municipal Health and Family Planning Supervision Institute (BHFPSI) jointly hosted a media communication meeting on tobacco control, where Wang Benjin, deputy secretary of the Party committee of BHFPSI, introduced the progress of tobacco control enforcement.

According to the introduction, since June 1, 2015 to October 31, 2017, the Beijing Municipal Regulation on Tobacco Control was officially implemented for 29 months, the Beijing Municipal Health Supervision and Law Enforcement Officers *** ordered the rectification of unqualified units 15,532 times, and 1,245 units were subjected to administrative penalties, *** counting fines of 3,423,600 yuan. *** penalized 5,243 individuals for illegal smoking and fined 271,450 yuan.

From January to October 2017, Beijing's health supervisory agencies ***supervised and enforced 100,371 inspections of various types of units (establishments), and found 5,057 unqualified units, with an overall qualification rate of 95%, a significant improvement over the 77% at the beginning of the implementation of the regulations.

From the monitoring of several types of key places to supervise and enforce the data analysis, the top three higher pass rate are medical institutions (97.5%), schools (97%), hotels (96%), the lowest catering units (68.5%).