Xinjiang accelerates the construction of a compact county medical community and will achieve full coverage within the year

China News Service, Urumqi, November 5 (Yuan Pengchong) Xinjiang is one of the three pilot provinces for a compact county medical community in the country and the only pilot province in the west. Relying on the medical and health foundation project to promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources, Xinjiang will achieve full coverage of the compact county medical community within the year.

On the 4th, the Information Office of the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held a series of themed press conferences (the fifth) on "Promoting the Medical and Health Foundation Project to Protect the Lives and Health of People of All Ethnic Groups" - "Completely, Accurately and Comprehensively Implementing the Party's Xinjiang Governance Strategy in the New Era" (the fifth session) to release the above news.

The picture shows the press conference scene. Photo by Yuan Pengchong

As of the end of 2025, 79 counties (cities, districts) in Xinjiang have reached the standards for the construction of a compact county medical community, accounting for 91.86%. The coverage rate of the county medical community's five major centers for examination, imaging, ECG, pathological diagnosis, and disinfection supply exceeds 85%. A total of 7.5856 million diagnostic reports have been issued, and more than 10 million prescriptions have been reviewed. The results of "basic-level examinations, superior diagnoses, and mutual recognition of results" have gradually emerged.

The compact county medical community is the core carrier of the medical and health foundation project. The Xinjiang Health Commission jointly issued 15 policy documents in a row with multiple departments to streamline key mechanisms such as staffing management, personnel compensation, medical insurance payment, and medical and prevention integration, and simultaneously established a monitoring and evaluation system. The evaluation results are directly linked to prefecture and city assessments and project selection.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Xinjiang Health Commission, as of the end of September 2026, Xinjiang county-level hospitals have stationed 3,331 medical personnel, and grassroots medical institutions with large service populations have achieved full coverage of long-term stationing of doctors with high professional titles. Xinjiang continues to build a dense grassroots medical service network across Xinjiang, creating a 30-minute medical and health service circle in rural areas and a 15-minute urban medical and health service circle, and promoting the diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases at the grassroots level.

In the next step, Xinjiang will continue to deepen the construction of the medical community, promote the homogenization of medical services in counties, and continuously improve the sense of access to medical care for people of all ethnic groups. (over)