{"id":7881,"date":"2011-03-06T04:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T04:03:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:10:54","slug":"china-ramps-up-health-spending-targets-smokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=7881","title":{"rendered":"China Ramps Up Health Spending, Targets Smokers"},"content":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s central government plans to increase spending on health care by 16.3% this year to roughly $26 billion, as part of a broader goal to improve public health and to complete overhauls to the country\u2019s health-care system it introduced in 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As part of the nearly spending initiative, Beijing will increase its per-capita funding for basic health services to 25 yuan, or $3.8, per capita, up 67% from a year earlier, said China\u2019s Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday, in a speech delivering the government\u2019s plans for the upcoming year. The government will also allocate 76 billion yuan to increase health-insurance coverage and to boost insurance subsidies to 200 yuan, up from 120, per person.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to put people first, make ensuring and improving their well-being the starting point and goal of all our work,\u201d Mr. Wen said in his two-hour address. The increase in health spending is a core part of China\u2019s plan to restructure its health-care system to provide affordable access to hospital care, medical treatment, and pharmaceuticals. In 2009, leaders pledged 850 billion yuan over three years for a measure to create universal access to health care by creating basic medical insurance coverage for 90% of its 1.3 billion people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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