The direction of medical reform is related to the health of hundreds of millions of people and the happiness of thousands of families. The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to it.

After long-term deliberation and extensive solicitation of opinions from all walks of life, Xinhua News Agency was authorized to publish the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Deepening the Reform of the Medical and Health System" on April 6, pointing out the way forward for the new medical reform that involves the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people.

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The promulgation of the "Opinions" is an inevitable requirement for implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development and promoting comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of the economy and society. It is another concrete practice of the Communist Party of China's insistence on the people-oriented governance concept.

According to the "Opinions", the core measures of the new medical reform to relieve people's worries are to reduce the burden on the people and highlight the public welfare nature.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's medical and health undertakings have achieved world-renowned achievements.

China's average life expectancy increased from 35 years in 1949 to 72.5 years in 2007, and the health level of the entire population has improved significantly.

However, with the rapid development of economy and society, the original medical and health system is increasingly unable to adapt to the people's growing needs for medical and health services. "Seeing a doctor is difficult and expensive" has become a lingering shadow in the minds of many ordinary people.

In order to alleviate people's concerns, the new medical reform highlights the leading role of the government and the public welfare nature of basic medical and health services in the adjustment of the interests of the government, society, and individuals.

It is clearly proposed that through measures such as increasing investment, strengthening supervision, and improving services, the government will effectively play its responsibilities in systems, planning, financing, services, supervision, etc., maintain the public welfare of public health care, promote fairness and justice, and effectively alleviate the epidemic.

The problem of medical expenses rising too fast and personal burden being too heavy.

The second is to expand the scope of security and promote equalization between urban and rural areas.

In the past, the problem of irrational allocation of medical and health resources was relatively prominent, and there were large gaps in the enjoyment of medical security between urban and rural areas, between regions, and between different social groups.

Therefore, the new medical reform will focus on solving the unreasonable allocation of resources and promoting equalization of medical services. It clearly proposes to provide the basic medical and health system as a public product to all people, vigorously develop the rural medical and health service system, and strive to

Establish a basic medical security system and an essential drug system that fully cover urban and rural residents, so that basic public health services can be universalized. By 2020, establish a basic medical and health system that covers urban and rural residents, and achieve the goal of basic medical and health services for everyone.

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The third is to improve service quality and improve the medical system.

In addition to insufficient government investment and unbalanced resource allocation, imperfect and unreasonable systems and mechanisms are another major reason why "medical treatment is difficult and expensive."

The new medical reform emphasizes the guiding ideology of separation of political affairs, management and office, separation of medicine, and separation of for-profit and non-profit. It clearly proposes to improve the four major medical and health systems, encourages and guides various social forces to actively participate in the development of medical and health undertakings, and strengthens medical and health talents.

Team building ensures the effective and standardized operation of the medical and health system, and establishes an institutional framework for realizing the goal of basic medical and health services for everyone.

The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful.

The new medical reform relieves people's worries and is also the foundation of strengthening the country.

Under the guidance of the "Opinions", the new medical reform will further improve the social security system of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and effectively solve the most direct and realistic interest issues that the people are most concerned about.

This will not only help improve people's health and enjoy the fruits of social progress, but will also have positive significance in reducing social conflicts and promoting social harmony.

"Medical reform" is a global problem. Whether it can find a balance between meeting the people's growing medical and health needs and sustainable economic and social development not only tests the wisdom of governance, but also directly affects the process of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

In the process of formulating the new medical reform plan, the party and the government actively drew on advanced foreign experience, incorporated the wisdom of the people, and learned from historical experience and lessons. By emphasizing public welfare and fairness, the party and the government practiced development for the people, development relies on the people, and development results are borne by the people.

* Shared governing philosophy.

The Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the establishment of a medical and health system with Chinese characteristics and gradually realize the goal of basic medical and health services for everyone.

In order to achieve this goal, the "Opinions" lay out a "road map" to benefit the people.

(Dou Hanzhang) "The proportion of special services provided by public hospitals shall not exceed 10% of all medical services." This is the provision in the "Recent Key Implementation Plan for Medical and Health System Reform (2009-2011)" released on the 7th.

Some public hospitals have excessively set up special medical services such as VIP senior wards and special outpatient clinics, which has caused social controversy.

Industry insiders pointed out that restricting public hospitals from providing too many special services is a measure to return public hospitals to public welfare and will also help make full use of scarce public medical resources to provide services to the people.

In order to maintain the public welfare nature of public hospitals and alleviate the problems faced by ordinary people in seeking medical treatment, the "Implementation Plan" also clearly states that it is necessary to promote the reform of the compensation mechanism of public hospitals.

Gradually change public hospital compensation from three channels: service charges, drug markup income and financial subsidies to two channels: service charges and financial subsidies.