The Ministry of Health and Welfare promotes health coins, and nearly a hundred companies participate in the investment promotion

Minister of Health and Welfare Shi Chongliang said that the National Health Service held a health coin investment promotion meeting this morning, and the industry players at the meeting were very supportive of the government policy and expressed high interest.

In order to encourage Chinese people to live a healthy life and actively participate in preventive health care, the Ministry of Health and Welfare plans to open up points for accumulating health coins in October and officially exchange them for products in December. Today, the National Health Administration held another investment meeting. Minister of Health and Welfare Shi Chongliang said that according to the meeting reported by the National Health Service, nearly a hundred companies participated in the meeting and expressed high interest. The redemption items or services in the first phase will include five categories, including supermarket health food and hospital health services.

Shi Chongliang explained that the National Health Administration held a health coin investment promotion meeting this morning. According to Director Shen Jingfen, nearly a hundred companies participated in the meeting, and more than 270 people participated online. The industry players in the meeting were very supportive of government policies and expressed high interest. They also raised questions about the operation of health coins, including participating product attributes, redemption methods, system docking, calculation methods, etc.

In addition, Shi Chongliang said that colleagues from the National Health Administration will negotiate with the industry one by one in the future, and the first phase of the health coins that will be launched in October this year will be based on five major categories of redemption items or services. The redemption items in the first phase will include supermarket health food, pharmacy access health products, hospital preventive health care services, sports venues, and life insurance industry cooperation. In the process, proposals from all walks of life will continue to be accepted.

As for the recent "Sports Coin" policy launched by the Ministry of Sports, which has received an enthusiastic response, Shi Chongliang said that health is not a one-day or one-time event. The Ministry of Health and Welfare hopes that the Health Coin can operate sustainably, and hopes to operate in the long term with a public-private partnership approach built by the government and private enterprises to respond. Therefore, it will be somewhat different from the Sports Coin. In addition to holding weekly draws after its launch in October, the second phase of redemption items is expected to be launched in the third quarter of next year.