The "Implementation Opinions" clarified the scope of medical assistance, including 10 categories of groups: extremely poor people, minimum living security recipients, children in need, and family members on the margins of subsistence allowances.

Specifically: extremely poor people, minimum living security recipients, children in need, qualified recipients of special care subsidies from the state, retired employees who were downsized in the 1960s who enjoyed regular and quantitative living subsidies from the civil affairs department, cities and counties (cities, districts)

) extremely poor employees approved by the Federation of Trade Unions, members of families on the margins of subsistence allowances, seriously ill patients in families with financial difficulties, seriously ill patients in temporary assistance recipients with local household registration, and other people with special difficulties stipulated by the people's government of the districted city.

In areas where conditions permit, seriously ill patients who are temporary aid recipients without local household registration can be included in the scope of aid.

The "Implementation Opinions" ensure that the assistance status is stable on the basis of needy people, and expand the scope of assistance to dynamically needy people such as family members on the margins of subsistence allowances and seriously ill patients in households with financial difficulties, so as to better respond to the development requirements of the new era and the improvement of institutional capabilities.

to ensure that every need is met.