CPC vows to build a "healthy China"

The Communist Party of China (CPC) vowed to build a "healthy China" by reforming its health system, and promote the balanced development of its population by implementing the two-child policy.

In the proposal for the 13th Five-year plan covering 2016 to 2020, the CPC called for deepening reform of health system, building a basic health care system covering both the urban and rural areas and a modern management system for hospitals.

The proposal was approved in the Fifth Plenary Session of CPC's 18th Central Committee last week. It will be submitted to the top legislature for ratification in March.

The Party proposed advancing the comprehensive reform of public-owned hospitals, breaking their mechanisms for seeking profits and building a personnel and remuneration system appropriate for the health industry.

It called for optimizing distribution of health resources, improving basic health service, promoting health resources to rural and grassroots level, and developing telemedicine. General practitioners, family doctors and electronic health records should be promoted.

The proposal encouraged private sectors to run health services and vowed to give them the same status as public-owned institutions.

In addition, it vowed to strengthen monitoring of health care quality, improving mechanisms to mediate medical disputes in a bid to build a harmonious doctor-patient relations. Endi