This 15th Five-Year Plan for National Health aims to implement a health-priority development strategy, advance Healthy China, improve equitable access to integrated services and raise average life expectancy to 80 years. The Plan covers health promotion, disease prevention, services throughout the life course, medical quality, public-health security and modernization of the healthcare system. It also addresses workforce development, scientific innovation, digital health, traditional Chinese medicine, health industries, insurance reform, regulation and international cooperation. The Plan contains measures addressing public health, environmental health, infectious disease prevention and intersectoral governance. Specific measures include nutrition and weight-management programmes, tobacco reduction, chronic and infectious disease control, maternal and child health, elderly and disability services, stronger primary care, tiered diagnosis and rehabilitation. It calls for improved surveillance of cross-species pathogen transmission, foodborne diseases and antimicrobial resistance; emergency and laboratory capacity; safer food and medicines; medical-data sharing; vaccine and drug research; and coordinated implementation, monitoring and evaluation by national and local authorities.
China · 2026-07-07