Abstract: The Manchuria Plague of 1910-1911 played a connecting role in modern Chinese public health construction.Social changes since the late Qing period have gradually made official and masses aware of modern medicine.This epidemic promoted the development of the public health system in China.Wu Lien-teh and other Western medical experts not only successfully extinguished the epidemic,but also effectively cubed the penetration Japan and Russia into northeast China in the name of epidemic prevention.They also took the successful protect as an opportunity to devote their lifelong learning to Chinas public health.His contribution is an epitome of the construction of Western medical system in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China,showing some historical aspects of the development of modern Chinese medical treatment under the inseparable interweaving effect of science,politics and culture.

Key words: Wu Lien-teh, the 1910-1911 Manchuria Plague, public health construction