This year’s “Two Sessions,” which concluded on March 11, were more Party-choreographed than ever, as evidenced by the elimination of the premier’s customary post-NPC press conference, the weakening of the State Council via a...
In part two of our retrospective on the most sensitive topics of 2023, as selected by our Chinese team, we focus on dissent and disasters. In part one we covered long-standing taboos on discussions about Xi Jiping and the...
The “White-haired Movement” (白发运动, Báifà Yùndòng) refers to protests led by elderly and retired workers in Wuhan and Dalian in February 2023, and in Guangzhou in January 2023. The protesters were objecting to medical insurance...
On February 15, just weeks before the opening of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) legislative session in Beijing, thousands of Chinese retirees in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian held large demonstrations against...
At the China Policy Institute Blog, Dr. Neil Munro from the University of Glasgow discusses...
For the New Yorker, Christopher Beam looks at the problems facing China’s health care...
The Wall Street Journal reports that China has taken another step toward “improving its...
On his blog, Evan Osnos writes about the Chinese reaction to last night’s passage of a health care reform bill in the U.S. Congress: Bad as it is, however, as Chinese health-care reformers looked for ways to repair their...
In the Washington Post, Steven Mufson reports on government efforts to reform a health care system that has left many uninsured or with poor quality care: China’s health-care system is in disarray, a side effect of the...
A new plan would have Beijing buy and distribute medicines at lower cost, the Financial Times reports: The measures are part of an Rmb850bn ($124bn, €88bn, £75bn) overhaul of the country’s ailing health system, aimed at securing...
Reuters reports that reforms in China’s health care system may be a boon for global pharmaceutical companies: As growth in the U.S. and European markets remains sluggish, many giant pharmaceutical companies are expanding...
Sam Verran evaluates China’s pilot healthcare reform in Shanxi province in an informative and in-depth piece for China Elections and Governance: The recent healthcare reform pilot in Shenmu county, Shanxi province, has...
In setting up the new health care reform guideline, the Chinese government did the right thing by putting public interests before profit-making, and by striving for equality between rural and urban areas. Millions of Chinese...
China is planning a major overhaul of its health care system which aims to provide care for 90% of the population by 2011 and for all citizens by 2020. Reuters reports: Beijing has already announced that it will spend about 850...
From AP, via the alternet.org: China announced Monday the outlines of a thorough reform of the health care system that pledges to provide improved services to all citizens by 2020, tackling a critical issue that has become a...
Asia Times takes a look at the history of China’s “barefoot doctors” and reforms in the economy and society that have left rural Chinese facing a potential health crisis: The rural health system started to...
Chinese health Minister Chen Zhu announced a revamping of how public hospitals work as part of national health care reform measures. From China Daily: He specified, under the reform plan, the government will be responsible for...
From Economic Observer Online: After two years of deliberation, the draft of China’s health care reform was finally released for public scrutiny on October 14. The reform aimed to provide universal health care for all...
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