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China: child vaccine schedule, from the official source
What one official body publishes for China, quoted and dated, with a link to the source. This page does not say which doses your child still needs.
China: Document hosted by the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration (国家疾病预防控制局): 国家免疫规划疫苗儿童免疫程序及说明
Document date, as the document prints it: June 2026 (2026 edition), no day printed.
Document: 国家免疫规划疫苗儿童免疫程序及说明(2026 年版), 2026 年 6 月 (National immunization programme childhood immunisation schedule and notes, 2026 edition).
National immunization programme childhood immunisation schedule and notes, 2026 edition, dated June 2026, hosted on the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration site (ndcpa.gov.cn); the PDF names no issuing body.
- At birth: hepatitis B vaccine dose 1, within 24 hours of birth; babies born to HBsAg-positive mothers or to mothers whose HBsAg result is unknown should get the first HepB dose as early as possible within 12 hours of birth; BCG vaccine, 1 dose at birth.
- At 1 month: hepatitis B vaccine dose 2.
- At 2 months: inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) dose 1; DTaP dose 1.
- At 3 months: IPV dose 2.
- At 4 months: bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) dose 1 (the third polio dose); DTaP dose 2.
- At 6 months: hepatitis B vaccine dose 3; DTaP dose 3; group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV-A) dose 1.
- At 8 months: MMR dose 1; Japanese encephalitis vaccine, either live attenuated (JE-L) dose 1, or inactivated (JE-I) 2 doses 7-10 days apart (choice of vaccine type sets the schedule: JE-L 2 doses, JE-I 4 doses).
- At 9 months: MPSV-A dose 2 (at least 3 months after dose 1).
- At 18 months: DTaP dose 4; MMR dose 2; hepatitis A vaccine, live attenuated (HepA-L) 1 dose, or inactivated (HepA-I) dose 1 (HepA-I is a 2-dose schedule).
- At 2 years: JE-L dose 2 (if live attenuated vaccine used) or JE-I dose 3 (if inactivated used); HepA-I dose 2.
- At 3 years: group A + C meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine (MPSV-AC) dose 1.
- At 4 years: bOPV dose 2 (the fourth polio dose).
- At 6 years: DTaP dose 5; JE-I dose 4 (if inactivated JE vaccine used); MPSV-AC dose 2.
- At 13 years: girls only, bivalent HPV vaccine, 2 doses 6 months apart.
Source: ndcpa.gov.cn
A schedule from one country is not meant to be read dose by dose against another’s. Bring your child’s original record to their doctor or nurse.
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Everything on this page was checked against its source on or after 12 Nov 2026. The document date is shown above.
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