White paper: China's total health expenditure exceeded 4 trillion yuan in 2015

Source: China news.com on December 1, 2016, the Information Office of the State Council of China published the white paper "the right to development: China's concept, practice and contribution" According to the white paper, from 1978 to 2015, China's total health expenditure increased from 11.021 billion yuan to 4097.464 billion yuan (the same below), and the per capita health expenditure increased from 11.5 yuan to 2980.8 yuan The white paper points out that the level of protection of the right to health of the Chinese people has been greatly improved The infant mortality rate dropped from 200 ‰ at the beginning of the founding of new China to 8.1 ‰ in 2015, and the maternal mortality rate dropped from 15 / 100000 to 20.1/100000 The number of medical and health institutions increased from 169732 to 983528; the total number of health workers increased from 7.883 million to 10.6939 million China has established a unified basic endowment insurance system for urban and rural residents throughout the country In 2015, the number of people participating in basic endowment insurance was 858 million, and the actual number of urban and rural residents receiving endowment insurance was 148 million China has established a medical insurance system covering all citizens By the end of 2015, the number of basic medical insurance participants, including basic medical insurance for urban employees, new rural cooperative medical insurance and basic medical insurance for urban residents, had reached 1.336 billion, with the coverage rate of 95% Above all, the proportion of reimbursement for hospitalization medical expenses within the scope of basic medical insurance for employees, basic medical insurance for urban residents and new rural cooperative medical policy is respectively more than 80%, 70% and 75% At the same time, the number of urban residents with minimum living security increased from 849000 in 1996 to 17011000 in 2015, and the number of rural residents with minimum living security increased from 2658000 in 1999 to 4903600 in 2015.