Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, April 12 (Reporters Li Heng and Huang Xiao) Data shows that in 2024, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents reached 79 years old; the national maternal mortality rate was 143/100,000, the infant mortality rate was 4.0‰, and the mortality rate of children under 5 years old was 5.6‰, reaching the best level in history; the proportion of personal hygiene expenditure to total health expenses dropped from 34.34% in 2012 to 26.89% in 2022.
This is the information learned by the reporter at the 2025 National Experience Promotion Conference on Deepening Medical Reform and China Health Development Conference held in Hangzhou on the 12th.
"In recent years, my country's medical reform has achieved remarkable results, the public has made more convenient for medical treatment, the people's health level has been greatly improved, and the main health indicators of residents are among the forefront of middle- and high-income countries." Yang Jian, director of the System Reform Department of the National Health Commission, said at the meeting that in particular, in recent years, my country will incorporate deepening the reform of the medical and health system into the overall planning of comprehensive deepening reform, comprehensively promote it, and embark on a path of health and health development with Chinese characteristics.
Regarding the next key tasks of medical reform, Yang Jian said that, first, implement the health priority development strategy and place the protection of people's health in a strategic position of priority development; second, promote the study of Sanming with prefectures as the unit to carry out medical reform, implement reform responsibilities, and promote the coordinated development and governance of medical, medical insurance, and medicine; third, promote the sinking of high-quality medical resources and accelerate the construction of a tiered diagnosis and treatment system; fourth, deepen the reform of public hospitals oriented towards public welfare, establish a dynamic adjustment mechanism and a charging mechanism dominated by medical services, etc.; fifth, improve the public health system and improve the ability to detect major epidemics; sixth, promote medical science and technology innovation, and improve the health and health science and technology innovation system; seventh, improve the inheritance, innovation and development mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine, and enhance the scientific and technological service capabilities of traditional Chinese medicine; eighth, focus on enhancing the sense of gain and experience of reforms in the masses, and solve the urgent and difficult problems of seeking medical treatment.
