Adjustments and countermeasures of China's medical foreign investment policy

VernacularTitle:新时期我国外资医疗政策变迁及对策思考
Author: Chang LIU ; Siyao GUO
Keywords: Policy adjustment; Foreign investment; Medical institution; Healthy China
From: Chinese Journal of Health Policy 2017;10(9):75-80
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Since the reform and opening up, the government of China has continuously adjusted its foreign medical policy and vigorously guided foreign investment to set up medical institutions in pilot provinces and cities. Based on healthy China 2030 plan, the paper summed up the foreign medical policy adjustment's process from its establishment, stagnation, and development to reform in China. The government of China liberalizes the market for foreign medical gradually, but the foreign medical institution is facing a series of bottlenecks, such as the lack of le-gal regulations, the cumbersome of approval procedures, and the limit of development and so on. The development of foreign medical care should be under the guidance of the country's legal and policy. Foreign medical institution can carry out some special medical care to improve the health of the residents.