Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics released a communiqué, the data show that at the end of 2016, the country *** there are 993,000 health care institutions, including 29,000 hospitals, an increase of 6.6%; in the hospitals there are 13,000 public hospitals, 16,000 private hospitals; 931,000 primary health care institutions, including township and township health centers, 37,000, community health service centers (stations) 35,000, 217,000 outpatient clinics (clinics), and 642,000 village health offices; and 29,000 professional public **** health institutions, including 3,484 centers for disease prevention and control and 3,138 health supervision institutes (centers).
Trend in the number of hospitals nationwide, 2012-2016