The construction of healthy China continued to advance.

General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Health is an inevitable requirement for promoting people’s all-round development, a basic condition for economic and social development, an important symbol of national prosperity and national prosperity, and the common pursuit of the broad masses of the people."

With the continuous progress of building a healthy China, people’s health level has been continuously improved. By the end of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, China’s average life expectancy has increased to 77.3 years, and the main health indicators are better than the average level of middle-and high-income countries. The medical service and support capabilities have been continuously improved, and the physical quality and health literacy of the whole people have been continuously enhanced.

Over 7700

Hospitals above the second level that provide online services.

Lao Zhang from Guizhou is 64 years old. More than a year ago, he often had symptoms such as general weakness, chest tightness, shortness of breath and chest pain. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis after examination in a local hospital. In May 2021, Lao Zhang went to Hunan Chest Hospital for treatment accompanied by his family. The hospital organized an expert group to treat Lao Zhang with anti-tuberculosis and nutrition enhancement. Lao Zhang’s condition improved rapidly and his body gradually recovered. "I can walk now, especially thanks to the careful treatment of medical staff!" Lao Zhang’s daughter said excitedly.

China’s medical service capacity has been continuously improved, which can basically meet the medical needs of the broad masses. From January to October 2021, the total number of medical and health institutions in China reached 5.44 billion, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%. The utilization rate of hospital beds in China was 75.1%, up by 3.2 percentage points year-on-year.

National Health Commission has launched the "Action Plan for Further Improving Medical Services" for six consecutive years, striving to make medical treatment safer, more convenient, more effective in communication and more comfortable in experience. The majority of public hospitals further facilitate the majority of patients to seek medical treatment through the application of information technology, the provision of intelligent services, and the aging transformation. The data show that by the end of 2020, 51.2% of public hospitals with secondary and above have made appointments, 91.6% have carried out clinical pathway management, 63.2% have carried out telemedicine services, 86.7% have participated in mutual recognition of examination results at the same level, and 93.7% have carried out quality nursing services.

In recent years, "Internet+medical service" has run out of acceleration. By the end of 2018, there were only over 100 Internet hospitals. By June 2021, the number of Internet hospitals has soared to 1,600, and more than 7,700 hospitals above the second level provide online services. Third-party platforms have opened Internet medical services, further facilitating patients.

"Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline puts forward the goal of greatly improving health service capacity by 2030: a high-quality and efficient integrated medical and health service system and a perfect national fitness public service system are fully established, the health security system is further improved, the overall strength of health science and technology innovation ranks among the top in the world, and the quality and level of health services are significantly improved.

79 years old

Life expectancy per capita in 2030

At the end of 2021, the hemodialysis center of zhuoni People’s Hospital in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was officially opened, with 1 deputy chief physician, 2 assistant physicians and 8 nurses. The newly-built hemodialysis room is fully equipped. "It will be convenient to do treatment in the future." The patient, Lao Ma, said that in the past, dialysis was a time-consuming, costly and laborious task.

In the early days of the founding of New China, China’s medical conditions were extremely backward, and medical and health resources were mainly concentrated in big cities. Data show that at that time, there were only 3,670 medical and health institutions and 505,000 health technicians in China.

Nowadays, China’s medical and health resources have undergone earth-shaking changes. By the end of October 2021, the number of medical and health institutions in China was 1.038 million. Compared with the same period of last year, there were 872 hospitals and 12,745 primary medical and health institutions.

The leap-forward development of medical and health resources can not be separated from continuous funding. In recent years, China has continuously increased financial input in the field of medical and health care. In 2020, the total national health expenditure will reach 7,217.50 billion yuan, and the per capita health expenditure will be 5,112.3 yuan. Among them, government health expenditure was 2,194.19 billion yuan, social health expenditure was 3,027.37 billion yuan, and personal health expenditure was 1,995.94 billion yuan, and the proportion of personal health expenditure continued to decline.

The outline of the "14th Five-Year Plan" proposes to adhere to the public welfare nature of basic medical and health undertakings, take the improvement of medical quality and efficiency as the guide, take public medical institutions as the main body and non-public medical institutions as the supplement, and expand the supply of medical service resources. The "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline proposes that the average life expectancy will reach 79 years in 2030. In the future, as China’s high-quality medical and health resources are further enriched and medical resources are more abundant, people’s health level will be further improved.

Over 60%

Signing rate of family doctors in key population

In 1967, 16-year-old Ma Wenfang became a "barefoot doctor" in Suliuzhuang Village, Dagang Li Township, Tongxu County, Kaifeng, Henan Province. Today, the village clinic has achieved standardized construction, and Ma Wenfang has become a family doctor. The villagers signed by Ma Wenfang are mainly residents over the age of 65 who suffer from diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease. China began to implement family doctor contract service in 2017, and now the contract signing rate of key groups has exceeded 60%.

The establishment of county and village three-level medical system and rural cooperative medical system in China has been recognized by the World Health Organization. In 2009, China launched a new round of medical and health system reform, and rural medical and health conditions were further improved. By the end of October 2021, there will be 985,000 grass-roots medical and health institutions nationwide, including 36,000 community health service centers (stations), 35,000 township hospitals, 272,000 clinics (infirmary) and 608,000 village clinics.

The construction of county medical community has been accelerated, and the rural medical service capacity has been continuously enhanced. In April 2017, the General Office of the State Council issued the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Construction and Development of Medical Consortium, proposing to set up a medical community in the county, give full play to the role of county-level hospitals as a link between urban and rural areas and a leading role in the county, form a division of labor and cooperation mechanism for county-level medical and health institutions, and build a three-level linkage county-level medical service system. Through more than four years of exploration and construction, the number of county medical communities in China has increased rapidly: by the end of March 2021, China had built 4028 county medical communities.

The "14th Five-Year Plan" outlines that high-quality medical resources in provinces and cities should be promoted to support the development of county-level hospitals, and 500 county-level hospitals (including traditional Chinese medicine hospitals) should be added to meet the facilities and service capacity of tertiary hospitals. We will steadily expand the coverage of contracted services for urban and rural family doctors and improve the quality of contracted services. The shortcomings of medical and health care in rural areas will be further supplemented, and rural residents will get more benefits from medical treatment. (Reporter Shen Shaotie)