Healthy China 2030: A Vision for Health Care.

In October 2016, President Xi Jinping announced the Healthy China (HC 2030) blueprint, a bold declaration that made public health a precondition for all future economic and social development. The HC 2030 blueprint, released in Beijing by the Chinese government, includes 29 chapters covering public health services, environment management, the Chinese medical industry, and food and drug safety [1]. The HC 2030 blueprint has been established as a national strategy and sets a goal of enabling everyone to be involved in health, share health, and be responsible for health. There are five specific goals to improve the level of health nationwide, control major risk factors, increase the capacity of the health service, enlarge the scale of the health industry, and perfect the health service system. The blueprint is based on four core principles, that is, health priority, reform and innovation, scientific development, and justice and equity, and outlines 13 core indicators to be reported in 2020 and 2030. The framework of HC 2030 is shown in Figure 1. Health is the indispensable prerequisite for the overall wellbeing of people as well as the foundation of economic and social development. The Program for a Healthy China 2030 reviewed and approved by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has set an action plan for the construction of a healthy China in the next 15 years. With a profound understanding of the great strategic significance of a healthy China, we need to make an effort from the perspective of constructing a society that is well off in all aspects of life, foster a new engine for economic and social development, improve structural reform of the medical supply side, enhance national well-being and social stability, propel global healthy governance, and fulfill the commitment that China has made to the international community. We need to not only have a clear understanding of the progress China has made in medical and health services but also face the challenges in constructing a healthy China. After years of ongoing efforts, a basic national health insurance system has been completed, and remarkable progress has been made in the reform of the medical health care system. As a result, improvement in health care is moving forward swiftly; a healthy environment in relation to the atmosphere and water quality has been achieved to some extent. In the meantime, as a result of industrialization and urbanization, aging of the population, continuous changes in disease spectra, ecological conditions, and people’s lifestyles, there are still some weak areas to be improved with regard to the development of health undertakings [2].