24 February 2021. China has made progress in tuberculosis control, but this disease remains a burden in many regions of China. Time-series analysis was performed to examine changes in the rates of newly notified and newly smear-positive cases of tuberculosis in different regions of China from 1997 to 2018 and assessed the effect of the current control program.https://idpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40249-021-00806-7