According to Xinhua News Agency, by 2025, my country’s average life expectancy will continue to increase by about 1 year on the basis of 2020, and the average healthy life expectancy will increase by the same proportion. The “14th Five-Year” National Health Plan announced on the 20th clearly proposed this Target.
In order to comprehensively promote the construction of a healthy China, the General Office of the State Council recently issued the “14th Five-Year Plan for National Health”. The plan also puts forward expected targets for a number of indicators such as the health literacy level of residents, the overall myopia rate among children and adolescents in the country, and the proportion of personal health expenditures in total health expenditures.
Through hard work, the health level of the Chinese people has been continuously improved. According to the data released by the plan, from 2015 to 2020, the average life expectancy will increase from 76.34 years old to 77.93 years old, the infant mortality rate will decrease from 8.1‰ to 5.4‰, the mortality rate of children under 5 years old will decrease from 10.7‰ to 7.5‰, and the maternal mortality rate will decrease from 10.7‰ to 7.5‰. The mortality rate dropped from 20.1/100,000 to 16.9/100,000. The main health indicators were at the forefront of middle- and high-income countries, and the proportion of personal health expenditure in the total health expenditure dropped to 27.7%.
At present, my country is still facing a complex situation in which multiple disease threats coexist and multiple health influencing factors are intertwined. The global new crown pneumonia epidemic is still in a pandemic state, the incidence of chronic diseases is rising and the trend is younger, the aging of the population is accelerating, and the supply of prenatal and postnatal care and infant care services needs to be strengthened. health needs.
To this end, the plan proposes a series of specific development goals. For example, by 2025, a strong public health system that can effectively respond to major epidemics and public health emergencies and meet the needs of the national public health security situation will be basically established. Early monitoring, intelligent early warning, rapid The capacity for response, efficient treatment, and comprehensive treatment has been significantly improved; the AIDS epidemic has continued to be controlled at a low prevalence level, the incidence of tuberculosis has been further reduced, the hazards of parasitic diseases, key endemic diseases and zoonotic diseases have continued to be controlled and eliminated, and the incidence of major chronic diseases has been on the rise. To be contained, the upward trend of psychological-related diseases has slowed down, and serious mental disorders and occupational diseases have been effectively controlled.
According to the plan, looking forward to 2035, my country will establish a health system suitable for the basic realization of socialist modernization, the basic medical and health system with Chinese characteristics will be more perfect, the average life expectancy will reach over 80 years old, and the average healthy life expectancy will gradually increase.