The new rural cooperative medical system, referred to as the new rural cooperative medical system, is organized, guided and supported by the government, with farmers participating voluntarily, and individuals, collectives and the government raising funds in various ways to make overall plans for serious illness. On June 5438+ 10, 2002, China clearly proposed that governments at all levels should actively guide farmers to establish a new rural cooperative medical system with serious illness as the focus. In 2009, China made an important strategic plan to deepen the reform of the medical and health system, and established the position of the new rural cooperative medical system as the basic medical security system in rural areas. Cooperative medical care is a medical security system created by farmers themselves, which plays an important role in ensuring farmers to obtain basic health services and alleviating poverty caused by illness and returning to poverty due to illness. It provides a model for common problems in the world, especially in developing countries, which is not only welcomed by farmers at home, but also well received internationally.

According to the policy of health work in the new period, the Ministry of Health focuses on rural areas, gives priority to prevention, pays equal attention to both Chinese and Western medicine, relies on science and technology and education, and mobilizes the participation of the whole society to serve people's health and socialist modernization. The main duties of the Ministry of Health are: to study and formulate laws, regulations, principles and policies on health work, to study and put forward development plans and strategic objectives of health undertakings, to formulate technical norms and health standards and to supervise their implementation. Study and put forward regional health planning, coordinate the allocation of national health resources, formulate community health service development planning and service standards, and guide the implementation of health planning. To study and formulate rural health and maternal and child health care work plans and policies and measures, and guide the implementation of primary health care plans and special technologies for maternal and child health care. Carry out the policy of putting prevention first and carry out health education for the whole people. Formulate prevention and control plans for diseases that seriously endanger people's health; Organize comprehensive prevention and treatment of major diseases; Publish the list of quarantine infectious diseases and monitoring infectious diseases. To study and guide the reform of medical institutions, formulate professional standards, medical quality standards and service norms for medical personnel, and supervise their implementation.