Jilin province carried out a campaign themed “zero-tolerance for AIDS” at Changchun Longjia Airport to raise passenger awareness of AIDS and tighten disease control on World AIDS Day on Monday.

Changchun Longjia Airport, as the one of the busiest hubs in Northeast China, receives around 8,000 passengers on a daily basis.

Given the large number of guests coming and leaving Jilin, the provincial entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau serves as one of the major organizers of the campaign.

"We give out flyers to passengers, and provide free HIV/AIDS advice for them as well," said an event coordinator from the bureau.

Commenting on the purpose of the campaign, Zhang Xiaojun, from the provincial science and technology association, said, “The government is against discrimination of HIV/AIDS sufferers and emphasizes disease prevention.”

"We need to give them more love and care," Zhang added.

So far, Jilin province has enhanced AIDS monitoring and inspection.

"We need to monitor people infected with HIV who come and leave Jilin in the first place,"an official from the Jilin Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau said.

Accordingly, 497,000 people had been detected with HIV/AIDS in China as of October, although the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention estimated last year that about 810,000 people with HIV/AIDS were living in China, many of them unaware of their status, according to a China Daily report on Dec 1.

During his visit to HIV/AIDS sufferers in Beijing before World AIDS Day, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that the situation in China remains complex and difficult despite the fact that the rise of HIV infections has been contained in the country.