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The Chinese government has announced key tasks for deepening the reform of medical and healthcare systems for the second half of the year, according to the "Key Tasks for Deepening the Reform of the Medical and Health System in the Second Half of 2023" jointly issued by six departments that include the National Health Commission and the National Development and Reform Commission.

The tasks include expanding the availability of quality medical resources and ensuring they are evenly distributed among regions, and deepening reform of public hospitals to ensure that they truly serve the public interest, according to the document.

The country will also promote the orderly linking up of medical insurance programs at different levels, advance reform and innovative development in the field of medicine, improve the public health system, and build up the ranks of medical and healthcare personnel, according to the document.

In the next step, China will promote the adjustment and evaluation of medical service prices, and timely adjust the prices of eligible services within the total amount range. Priority will be given to treatment, surgery, and some traditional Chinese medicine medical service projects that focus on technical labor value.

China will accelerate the high-quality development of public hospitals and carry out evaluations and promotion actions for the high-quality development of public hospitals by giving full play to the pilot and demonstration role of high-quality development in public hospitals, and strengthen the reform of public hospitals and the management of high-quality development projects.