The National Hygiene and Health Conference was held in Beijing from the 12th to the 13th. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period to achieve the goal of building a healthy China by 2035. We must unswervingly follow the path of health and wellness development with Chinese characteristics, implement the health and wellness work guidelines for the new era, promote the advantages, consolidate the foundation, make up for shortcomings, and strengthen the weak areas, 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.
Li Qiang made a concluding speech. Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi attended the meeting.
Xi Jinping pointed out that people's health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national strength. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has placed the protection of people's health in a strategic position of priority development, established health and wellness work guidelines for the new era, made major decisions and arrangements for building a healthy China, and promoted the construction of the world's largest medical service system, traditional medicine system, disease prevention and control system, and medical security system. Health and wellness undertakings have made historic achievements and achieved all-round progress.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the Healthy China we want to build is a balanced, inclusive, high-quality and efficient Healthy China. 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. It can effectively meet the growing health needs of the people, and major health indicators continue to improve steadily.
Xi Jinping pointed out that health and health undertakings play an overall and fundamental role, and we must resolutely implement the health-first development strategy. It is necessary to integrate the protection of people's health into various policies and reflect it in all aspects of work. Planning formulation, policy design, project demonstration, engineering construction, etc. all give priority to the impact on people's health.
Xi Jinping emphasized that prevention is the most economical and effective health strategy, and we must pay close attention to all basic and source work of health and health to consolidate the foundation of national health. Guide the whole society to establish a correct view of health and carry out effective health self-shaping and management. Guide the majority of young people to develop good study and living habits and achieve comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, and art. Create a good ecological environment, production and living environment, and encourage and support national fitness, healthy leisure. Strengthen food safety supervision and protect the ‘safety on the tip of the tongue’. We must improve the disease prevention and control system and ensure that no large-scale epidemic occurs.
Xi Jinping pointed out that comprehensively improving the level of medical services is a key task in building a healthy China. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the project of strengthening the medical and health infrastructure, optimize the functional positioning and structural layout of medical and health institutions, and promote hierarchical diagnosis and treatment so that the people can get medical treatment nearby and receive good treatment. Strengthen the comprehensive prevention and control of chronic diseases and improve the entire chain of prevention, treatment and health care services. Improve the inheritance, innovation and development mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine and strengthen the collaborative integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Strengthen basic research and original innovation in the field of health and wellness, promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and make the health industry bigger and stronger. Optimize the medical experience and continuously improve the convenience and satisfaction of people’s medical treatment.
Xi Jinping emphasized that reform is a powerful driving force for the development of health and health services, and we must persist in promoting the coordinated development and governance of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine as the main direction of the reform of the medical and health system. Comprehensively implement the reform plan for medical and health institutions, deepen the reform of public hospitals with a public welfare orientation, and strengthen the operation guarantee of county and grassroots medical institutions. Build a multi-level medical security system, optimize the centralized procurement of pharmaceutical consumables, medical insurance payment and fund use policies, and achieve safe operation of funds, healthy operation of hospitals, and reasonable public burden. Improve the drug supply guarantee and use management mechanism, improve the national essential drug system, and strengthen drug quality and safety supervision.
Xi Jinping pointed out that ensuring people's health requires building a strong team of cadres and talents in the health and health system. It is necessary to select and strengthen the leadership teams of competent departments and medical and health institutions at all levels, especially the "top leaders", and strive to create a team of medical personnel with sufficient quantity, reasonable structure and high quality. Strengthen the construction of medical ethics and medical ethics and create a good industry atmosphere. Promote the formation of a social atmosphere that respects doctors and health.
Xi Jinping emphasized that health for all is the common vision of all mankind, and we must actively promote the construction of a human health community, work together to address major challenges in the field of health and health, and continuously improve the health and well-being of people in all countries. Deepen cooperation in the field of health and wellness along the Belt and Road Initiative, and strengthen and innovate health foreign aid work. Tell the story of Healthy China well and further build international consensus.
Li Qiang pointed out in his concluding speech that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech profoundly answered a series of fundamental, directional and overall issues in health and health work. It has a strong ideological, strategic and guiding nature. It points out the direction and provides important guidelines for the health and health work in the new era and new journey. It must be studied and understood carefully and implemented to the letter. It is necessary to enhance the consciousness of thought and action, and unswervingly follow the path of health and health development with Chinese characteristics; firmly establish the orientation of health priority and promote the coordinated development of people's health and economic and social development; adhere to the public welfare nature of basic medical and health services and consolidate the foundation of national health; insist on equal emphasis on ensuring basic medical and health services and improving quality to better meet the diverse health needs of the people; deepen reform, innovation and open cooperation, and continue to enhance the vitality of the development of health and health services. It is necessary to focus on the pain points and blockages of health and wellness, highlight the urgent, difficult and anxious issues of the people, focus on the prevention and control of major diseases, promote the construction of a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, optimize the people's medical experience, build a multi-level medical security system, consolidate the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, provide health services for "one old and one small", promote the development of science and technology to empower medical and health services, and lay a solid foundation for the construction of a healthy China.
Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, members of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, relevant leading comrades of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, State Councilors, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and relevant leading comrades of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference attended the meeting.
Representatives of leading comrades and experts and scholars from various provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, cities under separate state planning, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, relevant departments of central and state agencies, relevant people's organizations, some central enterprises, and relevant departments of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting.
