An issue that has to be settled urgently is how to accelerate hospital construction in a distressed county. Specific measures may include: ①clarifying the orientation of development on the basis of an analysis of the status quo; ②speeding up infrastructure construction while doing a good job of planning for the hospital area; ③raising funds from a variety of sources so as to purchase facilities urgently needed in medical treatment; ④taking vigorous steps for intensional building and personnel cultivation, such as formulating criteria for post assumption, with the backing of economic policies, selecting 12 to 15 people each year for higher training in advanced areas, and striving for support from big hospitals in the provincial capital; ⑤adopting integrated management and amplifying rules and regulations; ⑥striving for preferential policies and support from higher authorities: for instance, conformity between hospital construction and municipal planning alone saved over 3 million yuan of funds and the county government raised over 6 million yuan of funds for the hospital.