Abstract: Along with the development of the society, the publicity and education of tuberculosis control in China have expanded gradually from small and weak to large and strong. The publicity and education of tuberculosis control has always been regarded as an important work by the pioneer, Chinese Antituberculosis Association. Until the 1960s, the publicity slogan “No Spitting” had played the most important role in the education for general public with some paper materials like antituberculosis leaflets and so on. More importance was attached to TB propaganda by Chinese government and the Ministry of Health during 1970s-1990s. Increased investment, the establishment of TB propaganda team and full role of the modern propaganda media made the national TB control work get significant progress and the modern tuberculosis control strategy be implemented national wide. Since the 21st century, the national tuberculosis propaganda, which is very important for us to achieving the global TB control milestones in 2005, has been focused on the popularization of antituberculosis core knowledge and strengthened by the “National Millions of Volunteers TB Knowledge Dissemination Action”. Looking to the future, to achieve the goal of 85% core information awareness set by the National Tuberculosis Control Program (2011—2015), several aspects of TB health education work still need to be paid more efforts: strengthen the leadership and policy advocacy of TB health education, give a full play to the superiority of the modern publicity media, take full advantage of the “National Millions of Volunteers TB Knowledge Dissemination Action”, integrate national TB health education resources and make full use of advantages of experts in Chinese Antituberculosis Association and so forth.

Key words: Tuberculosis/prevention &, control, Health education, Retrospective studies