FOR A HEALTHIER CHINA

According to a white paper on medical and health services in China issued by the information Office of the State Council last December, the Chinese population's general health conditions have been ranked the best among developing countries. The repoort said that from 2002 to 2011 the country's maternal mortaility rate went down from 51.3 to 26.1 per 100,000 the infant mortality rate dropped from 29.2 to 12.1 per 1,000, and the mortality rate of children under the age of 5 dropped from 34.9 to 15.6 per 1,000. Here, Yuankai explores how a three-year reform to reaffirm the Chinese government's role in financing health care is yielding considerable results.