For the public hygiene service system, the government will promote fair and equal services to both urban and rural residents. From this year, basic disease prevention, health education, and mother and infant health care will be strengthened. And more content will be added to the system to gradually narrow the gap between urban and rural areas.

For the reform of medical care services, public hospitals will continue to be dominant providers of the services, while more room will be given to the development of grassroots-level hospitals and clinics. And more hospitals will be established in rural areas.

Medical insurance is crucial for ordinary households. The government plans to set up diversified medical insurance systems that have urban employees, urban residents who do not work and rural residents covered by some sort of insurance plan.

For the system of medicine supply, the reform plan aims to tighten scrutiny of the distribution and use of medicine. From this year, all health care institutions will be required to use drugs in a catalogue issued by the government. The prices will be supervised by the government.