CPC views on deepening the reform (1)

Beijing, 6 April, in accordance with the spirit of the 17th CPC National Congress to establish a medical system with Chinese characteristics, the progressive realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of basic health services, to improve the health of all people, the deepening of medical system reform makes the following observations.

First, fully understanding deepening medical system reform on the importance, urgency and difficulty

The relationship between medicine and health of millions of people's health, the relationship between the millions of happiness, is significant livelihood issues.

Deepening of medical system reform, accelerate the development of medicine and public health, to adapt to the people's growing medical needs and improve the quality of people's health is to implement the scientific concept of development, the promotion of sustainable economic and social development of the overall coordination entails, is the maintenance of social justice, improve people's quality of life is an important move, a well-off society and build a harmonious society, a major task.

Since the founding of new China, especially since the reform and opening up, China's medical industry has achieved remarkable results covering urban and rural areas of medical and health service system basic formation, the ability to continuously enhance disease prevention, health insurance coverage health population gradually expanded, raising the level of science and technology, people's health improved significantly, the main health indicators are residents of developing countries.

Especially significant victory in the fight against SARS, all levels of government investment, public health, rural health care and community health development, CMS and urban residents basic health insurance a breakthrough for the deepening of medical system reform has laid a good foundation. At the same time, it should be noted that the current Chinese medical career development level and people's health needs and development requirements of the economic and social coordination does not adapt to the more prominent of contradictions. Health care in rural and urban and regional development, resource allocation, public health and rural, community and health work is weak and inadequate medical care system, pharmaceutical production and distribution order specifications, hospital management system and operational mechanism is not perfect, Government health investment inadequate medical costs rising fast, overburdened, masses of people strong.

Between now and 2020 is a well-off society in a crucial period, a heavy task of medical work.

With economic development and the improvement of living standards, mass on the improvement of medical and health services will have higher requirements. Industrialization, urbanization, population aging, disease patterns change and ecological changes, etc., to medical and health work brings a series of new challenges. Deepening of medical system reform, is to accelerate the development of medicine and public health strategies, is the realization of the reform and development of people sharing the results of important ways, is the majority of the people's urgent desire.

Deepening of medical system reform is a broad and difficult social systems engineering.

China's large population, per capita income levels are low, the gap between rural and urban, regional, long in the initial stage of socialism is the basic condition that determines the deepening of medical system reform is a complex challenge, is a gradual process that need a clear direction and framework, based on the strenuous efforts and perseverance, to gradually establish and meet our country's medical system. Therefore, the deepening of medical system reform, both strong determination, speeding, and to organize, steady implementation to ensure smooth implementation of reforms, to achieve the desired objectives.

Second, the deepening of medical system reform of guidelines, basic principles and general objectives

(A) deepening medical system reform guiding ideology.

Deng Xiaoping theory and important thinking as guide, implement the scientific concept of development, from China's national conditions, drawing on international experience, focusing on achieving universal access to basic health services, addressing the people care most about, most direct and practical problems of interest. Upholding the public nature of public health, prevention, with a focus on rural areas, and Western and approach, separating, MO separately, medicine separate, for-profit and non-profit, strengthening government responsibility and commitment to improving national health policies, sound system, strengthen the supervision and management, innovative institutional mechanisms to encourage community participation, building covering urban and rural residents of basic health care system and improve public health standards, promoting social harmony.

(Ii) deepen the medical system reform of basic principles.

Medical system reform must be based on national circumstances, everything from reality, adhere to the principle of the right of the reform.

— — Adhere to people-oriented, to protect people's health and interests first.

Adhering to medical health service for people's health services aim to protect people's health as the Center, to the enjoyment of basic health services as the starting point and the end result, from the reform programme design, health system established to service system should follow the principle of non-profit, as the basic health system to the universal provision of public goods, solved the masses strongly prominent issues, working towards all people turn away.

— Adherence to established based on national, medicine and public health system with Chinese characteristics.

Adhere to the basic national conditions, to sum up the medical health reform experience in the development of an accurate grasp of medicine and health development law and contradictions; adhere to basic health services and coordination of economic and social development, and the people's ability to adapt; and give full play to the traditional Chinese medicine (national medicine); carried out according to local conditions, specific guidance, local initiatives, and explore the basic building country health system.