China’s National Medical Insurance Administration: Promoting China’s digital and smart medical insurance experience to “go global”

Zhang Ke, director of China's National Medical Insurance Administration, said in Nanning, Guangxi on the 5th that the National Medical Insurance Administration will adhere to openness and win-win, promote the "going out" of China's digital and intelligent medical insurance experience, and promote more medical AI (artificial intelligence) innovation results to benefit people in all countries.

The award ceremony for the 2026 National Medical Insurance Imaging AI Image Recognition Competition, co-sponsored by the National Medical Insurance Administration and the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was held in Nanning on the same day. Zhang Ke said at the meeting that by holding the National Medical Insurance Imaging AI Image Recognition Competition, the beautiful vision of medical imaging AI empowering medical insurance governance and protecting people's health is accelerating to become a reality.

On November 5, the 2026 National Medical Insurance Imaging AI Image Recognition Competition Awards Ceremony was held in Nanning, Guangxi. The picture shows the signing ceremony scene. Photo by Yu Jing

This competition is China's first national-level "AI + medical image recognition" professional competition, with a total of 1,332 teams from home and abroad participating. The competition builds an international mutual learning platform to help ASEAN countries improve their imaging AI capabilities and promote the inclusive construction of medical AI.

For this competition, Guangxi built a "gold standard" high-quality medical imaging data set of 95,000 cases. At the same time, it closely followed ASEAN's tumor, cardiovascular and other diagnosis and treatment needs, promoted the integration and adaptation of the high-quality award-winning results of the competition in Guangxi, and cooperated with ASEAN medical institutions to carry out technical research, case studies and model trials, and steadily promoted the transformation of mature medical AI technologies and products to ASEAN.

Martin Taylor, the representative of the World Health Organization in China, said at the meeting that the World Health Organization is committed to using digital technology and artificial intelligence for health in a safe, ethical and fair way, and encourages countries to share artificial intelligence technology and innovation experience to help achieve "health for all."

Zhang Ke said that the National Medical Insurance Administration will actively promote artificial intelligence technology to serve clinical services and benefit the people, continue to open up and cultivate scenarios in the medical insurance field, transform the potential energy of technological innovation into industrial development momentum, and create a new ecosystem of digital smart medical insurance that is collaborative, open and win-win. (over)