-- Expand the coverage of medical insurance. Increase the amount of rural and urban population covered by the basic medical insurance system to at least 90 percent by 2011.

-- Build a basic medicine system that includes a catalogue of drugs mostly needed by the public.

-- Improve medical service systems (especially those at the grassroots level). Build another 5,000 clinics at the township level, 2,000 hospitals at the county level and 2,400 urban community clinics in three years.

-- Gradually provide equal public health services in both rural and urban areas in the country.

-- Start to reform public hospitals.

"Health care reform is not easy. Our determination to push forward the reform shows that the government cares about the health of the public," Wen said.

"Let me assure you that a good Premier would push forward the establishment of a good system," he said.

(Xinhua News Agency February 28, 2009)