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Global Times: Healthy China - another 'Chinese solution'
The Sanming model cut healthcare costs and improved service quality, with China's insurance coverage exceeding 95 percent and life expectancy at 79.25 years, officials said.
- On March 9, 2026, Sanming healthcare reform was described as expanding nationwide across prefecture-level cities, helping move the medical insurance fund from deficit to surplus.
- The Healthy China initiative has driven policy integration across government, aiming for universal health coverage for over 1.4 billion people within the 15th Five-Year Plan.
- A hospital detected a patient's tumor within three days at a screening cost of about $25, according to The New York Times earlier this year.
- China now counts over 1.1 million healthcare institutions, with more than 90 percent geographic access within 15 minutes, basic medical insurance coverage exceeding 95 percent, and average life expectancy 79.25 years.
- Compared with many Western systems, China's coordinated reforms use group-based medical talent assistance programs for Xizang and Xinjiang, plus tertiary hospital support to county hospitals, to extend high-quality care.
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Global Times: Healthy China - another 'Chinese solution'
BEIJING, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier this year, The New York Times published an article titled "In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss," detailing the medical journey of a retired bricklayer from Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang…
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