China News Service, October 14th. Question: What kind of healthy China should we build? Xi Jinping emphasized eight words
"The Healthy China we want to build is a healthy China that is balanced, inclusive, high-quality and efficient."
From October 12th to 13th, the National Hygiene and Health Conference was held in Beijing. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized this at the conference.
Health is the most important indicator of a happy life and also the most important indicator of modernization. Building a healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the "15th Five-Year Plan" is a critical period to achieve this goal.
There are only 9 years left to achieve the goal of building a healthy China. What should a healthy China look like in the future?
At this National Hygiene and Health Conference, the General Secretary not only made a strategic deployment of "balanced universal benefit, high quality and efficiency", but also put forward specific capability requirements——
"It should have strong health management capabilities, disease prevention and control capabilities, medical service capabilities, medical insurance support capabilities, medical innovation capabilities, and talent training capabilities, so that it can effectively meet the growing health needs of the people, and the main health indicators continue to improve steadily."
To build a healthy China, balanced and universal benefit is the proper meaning of the topic.
"Health is 1, and everything else is the 0 at the end. Without 1, no matter how many 0s there are, they are meaningless." The General Secretary once used this as a metaphor.
Ten years ago, at the first National Hygiene and Health Conference held in the new century, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed the health and wellness work policy for the new era, which is to focus on the grassroots, use reform and innovation as the driving force, prevention first, pay equal attention to traditional Chinese and Western medicine, integrate health into all policies, and be shared by the people.
Over the past ten years, my country has built the world's largest medical service system, traditional medicine system, disease prevention and control system, and medical security system. The average life expectancy has increased to 79.25 years, and more than 1.1 million medical and health institutions cover urban and rural areas.
"Planning, policy design, project demonstration, engineering construction, etc. all give priority to the impact on people's health", "allowing the people to get medical treatment and good treatment nearby" and "protect the 'safety on the tip of the tongue'"...
At this National Hygiene and Health Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s systematic deployment of the construction of a healthy China, the concept of people first and life first runs throughout.
To build a healthy China, high quality and high efficiency can better meet the diverse health needs of the people.
Building a healthy China is a systematic project. During the National Two Sessions this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized when attending the joint meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that “in the face of the people’s growing and diversified health needs, we must focus on key points and firmly grasp those tasks that benefit a wide range of people and affect the whole body.”
At this National Health and Wellness Conference, a series of reform matters focusing on pain points, blockages, and urgent needs were deployed, such as "optimizing the functional positioning and structural layout of medical and health institutions", "deepening the reform of public hospitals with a public welfare orientation", and "optimizing policies for centralized procurement of pharmaceutical consumables, medical insurance payment and fund use".
It is necessary to maintain the basics while improving quality, to advance comprehensively but also to make breakthroughs in key areas, so that the ideas for reform and tackling tough problems will be clearer.
At the National Hygiene and Health Conference ten years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “promoting the construction of a healthy China is our party’s solemn commitment to the people.”
Now, in the critical period to achieve the goal of building a healthy China by 2035, the general secretary emphasized that we should promote our advantages, consolidate our foundation, make up for our shortcomings and strengthen our weaknesses, promote high-quality development of health and wellness, continuously improve people's health levels, and ensure decisive progress in the construction of a healthy China.
｜Chief Planner: Yu Lan
｜Planner: Zhou Rui
｜Coordinator: Ma Xueling
｜Written by: Kan Feng
｜Reviewer: Sun Jingbo Shao Meng
|Visual: Xu Yang
｜Produced by the "Xi Yan Dao" studio of China News Network
