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Healthy China: Deepening Health Reform in China
Key Findings In the last 20 years, China has improved health delivery services and achieved noteworthy success in health outcomes. China has greatly reduced child and maternal mortality and rates of infectious diseases, invested in expanding health infrastructure, and ensured near-universal health insurance coverage. After lifting more than 600 million people out of poverty in the past three decades, China now faces slower growth, an aging population, and a surge in non-communicable diseases. In the past decade, healthcare costs grew at a rate of 5 to 10 percentage points higher than gross domestic product growth. At the same time, with higher economic growth and personal incomes, people are demanding more and better health care. Those factors have led to rising healthcare costs. Yet the slowdown in the economy will make it difficult to keep up with the current level of growth in health spending. Decades ago, China’s innovations in health – barefoot doctors and community health care, for example – showed the world it was possible to improve the health and greatly increase the life-expectancy for hundreds of millions of people. China can once again lead the way with cutting-edge primary health care by enacting reforms that put patients first and shift away from expensive hospital care. The World Bank’s new joint report with the Chinese government and the World Health Organization recommends the country shift away from its current hospital-centric model, which rewards volume and sales, to one focused on health outcomes that is centered on primary care and offers better value for money. According to the study, without reform, health spending would increase in real terms from 3.5 trillion yuan in 2014 to 15.8 trillion yuan in 2035—an average increase of 8.4 percent per year. Health spending would account for over 9 percent of GDP in 2035, up from 5.6 percent of GDP in 2014. More than 60 percent of the projected growth in health spending would come from increased inpatient services in hospitals. The report proposes practical, concrete steps toward a value-based integrated service model of healthcare financing and delivery. The study estimates it will take China about a decade to fully implement the proposed reforms and reach full scale. If carried out, these reforms will improve the healthcare system for all Chinese people—or one in every six people in the world.
CPC top leadership adopts plan to build "Healthy China"
BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The top leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday adopted a plan aiming to build a healthy China in the next 15 years. The blueprint, called "Healthy China 2030," was passed at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Participants at the meeting said health is the basic condition for economic and social development and a key indicator of the nation's prosperity. The "Healthy China 2030" plan is an important effort to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and to improve people's health, attendees said. In the meantime, it is also important in China's efforts to engage in global health governance and implement the country's commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Attendees noted that although Chinese people's health has historically kept improving, China still faces various challenges brought by industrialization, urbanization, an aging population, and changes in lifestyles. The participants said the plan should focus on the country's new development concepts: innovation, environmental concern, coordination, and open and shared growth. The primary goal of the plan is to enhance people's health, and it can be achieved with the help of institutional reform and innovation, the participants said. They added that future efforts should focus on promoting healthy lifestyles, optimizing health services, improving health security, building a healthy environment and developing health industries. The government should play a leading role and the public should be mobilized to participate, attendees said, stressing that paying attention to the health of key groups such as women, children, seniors, migrants and low-income groups, was of particular concern. Building a healthy China requires more government input and greater efforts to deepen institutional reforms, increased personnel development, the promotion of scientific and technological innovation, stronger legislation and the expansion of international cooperation. Party committees and governments of various levels should speed up the formulation of supporting policies, participants said.
健康中国2030 (jiànkāng zhōngguó 2030): Healthy China 2030
At a conference on Friday, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee reviewed and approved the plan for a Healthy China 2030. The conference concluded that health is a necessary prerequisite for the overall development of the people, as well as the foundation for the sustainable development of the society. China has been raising people's living standards, but new challenges to a healthy society, such as the aging population and environmental pollution, have also emerged. The plan is a general guideline document for promoting people's health in the coming 15 years. It stresses that health should be combined into all major policies, such as fighting environment pollution and improving the nation's healthcare provision. The emphasis should be on disease prevention and encouraging people to adopt healthy lifestyles. The public health service system should be adjusted and improved, so that ordinary residents will have their health problems diagnosed earlier and so get earlier treatment. The various levels of government should pay ample attention to the issue and take their own measures to ensure people's health.
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1 The top leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Friday adopted a plan aiming to build a healthy China in the next 15 years.
2 The blueprint, called "Healthy China 2030," was passed at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which was presided over by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.
3 The "Healthy China 2030" plan is an important effort to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and to improve people's health, attendees said.