In July 2014, WHO has designated a new collaborating Centre for IHR – Points of Entry with the Health Quarantine and Inspection Department of the General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China, in order to have their support in the development of global technical guidance, tools, networks and activities related to core capacity building in the context of International Health Regulations (IHR), such as for development of a global vector identification platform.