First, there are fewer government subsidies. You can see that the communiqué shows that government health expenditure in 2020 was 2,194.19 billion yuan. In 2021, it was less, only 2,071.85 billion yuan.
Second, patient discharge costs not only did not increase, but also decreased. In 2020, the per capita discharge cost of tertiary hospitals was 14,442.0 yuan, but in 2021 it will only be 14,286.8 yuan.
Thirdly, the number of people receiving wages has increased. At the end of 2021, there were 11.242 million health technicians nationwide. Among them, there are 4.287 million practicing (assistant) physicians and 5.018 million registered nurses. Compared with the previous year, there was an increase of 564,000 people (an increase of 5.3%).