The State Council issued opinions on promoting the development of health service industry.

On September 28th, 20 13, the State Council issued Several Opinions on Promoting the Development of Health Service Industry (hereinafter referred to as Opinions). The Opinions put forward that on the basis of effectively guaranteeing the people's basic medical and health service needs, we should fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of social forces, and strive to basically establish a health service system covering the whole life cycle, rich in connotation and reasonable in structure by 2020, with a total scale exceeding 8 trillion yuan. The "Opinions" pointed out that the health service industry mainly includes medical services, health management and promotion, health insurance and related services, involving supporting industries such as medicines, medical devices and fitness products; It is of great significance to meet the people's multi-level and diversified health service needs, improve the level of service industry, promote economic transformation and upgrading, and form new growth points. The "Opinions" clarified eight main tasks for developing the health service industry in the coming period-vigorously developing medical services; Accelerate the development of healthy old-age care services; Actively develop health insurance; Comprehensively develop Chinese medicine medical and health care services; Support the development of diversified health services such as health checkup consultation, national fitness, health culture and tourism; Cultivate related supporting industries of health service industry; Improve the human resources guarantee mechanism; Consolidate the development foundation of health service industry.