In the history of Pucheng County, there were many reputable doctors, who inherited and developed the traditional medical ethics and skills, or traveled from village to village, or sat in the hall to answer the doctor's call to save the lives of the people and prevent and treat diseases for them. During the Republic of China period, the county has run more than 30 private hospitals and clinics. However, due to the limitations of the social system, some of the office soon to stop or he moved. The development of public health care is also very slow. According to relevant information, the Republican period of the county health center, was established on the basis of smoking cessation. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, opium cigarettes were widespread in China, and the farmers in Pucheng County planted, sold and smoked a lot of them. According to the diary of Jingyao Zhang Linshu, 71 taels of opium were collected in the twenty-first year of Guangxu (1895); 33 taels of opium were collected in the twenty-second year of Guangxu (1896), and 1.6 stones of poppy seeds were beaten. Republic of 18 years (1929), the National Government promulgated the "anti-smoking law", requiring the establishment of anti-smoking organizations. 20 years (1931), the county government appointed Zhao Zichao, Sun Ziwen for the county health assistant, responsible for epidemic prevention, and also in charge of anti-smoking. Because the government did not pay enough attention, the result was very little. 24 years (1935), the Provincial Drug Rehabilitation Institute and appointed Zhao Zichao as Pucheng County Smoking Cessation Institute (later known as the "Tobacco Control Institute") director, the Institute was set up in Yaoshan College. Zhao Zichao attached great importance to smoking cessation, but because of the county government's indifference to this work, coupled with several large tobacco merchants in the county and the town of Xingshi obstructed the work of smoking cessation could not be carried out. 28 years (1939), the Provincial Department of Health sent Ding Shaozhou as the director of Pucheng County Smoking Cessation Institute, began to shelter smokers, taking medication for smoking cessation. 29 years (1940), the county government changed the smoking cessation Institute for the health center, from then on, Pucheng County had a public medical institution. In 1944, the county civil affairs department set up a health center in Xingzhen. After the liberation of Pucheng, the Party and the people's government attached great importance to the development of health care. In May 1952, the county people's government officially changed the name of the third section in charge of education and health to "Culture, Education and Health Section", and each of the six districts of Chengguan, Xingzhen, Dangmu, Sunzhen, Hankai and Guangyang set up one assistant in culture, education and health. in March 1955, the county set up a special health section. in January 1959, Pucheng, Baishui, Pucheng, and Guangyang set up a health section. In January 1959, Pucheng, white water, Chengcheng three counties merged, the establishment of the Ministry of culture, education and health (in April to change the Department for the Bureau), within the health unit. 1960 July set up a health bureau. 1961 Pucheng, white, Cheng three counties to restore the original establishment, and in August for the Bureau of culture, education and health in August 1964 and then specializing in the Bureau of health. In the "cultural revolution", the health bureau organization paralyzed. 1968, learn "lingbao experience", set up medicine and health service station. 1970, set up the health management station, set up the health bureau in October revolution leading group. 1976, October, restoration of the Health Bureau until now. May 1949 to 1963, has set up the county health center (changed to the county hospital in 1960), health epidemic prevention station, maternal and child health care and so on, and successively set up 8 lot hospitals and 22 township health centers, and later set up a Chinese medicine hospital and rehabilitation hospitals. 1990 end of the year, the whole county **** there are 68 medical and health hospitals and institutes, health staff of more than 3,000 (including more than a medical doctor) 1122), 932 hospital beds, an average of 1.67 doctors and 1.38 hospital beds for 1,000 people. The county's medical and health care expenses amounted to 1.37 million yuan, accounting for 3.5% of the total local financial expenditures. County, township, village three-level health care network is basically formed. Some of the endemic and infectious diseases have been controlled and some are basically extinct. Maternal and child health care and employee health care have achieved remarkable results. The mass patriotic health movement has developed healthily. The activities of health research organizations such as the Medical Association and the Chinese Medical Association and the mass health organization, the Health Workers' Association, have also been more active. The development of medical and health care in the county has attracted the attention of health authorities at all levels and the United Nations Health Organization. in October 1979, the Provincial Department of Health identified Pucheng County as one of the province's key counties for health care. from October 1979 to the end of 1982, the province, prefecture and county*** invested 1,587,000 yuan, and the Department of Health raised 510,000 yuan of its own funds to expand premises, purchase equipment and train nurses, so that the medical and health care The cause of faster development. In three years, the county **** purchase of medical equipment 1529 pieces, the basic solution to the use of medical units equipment needs. On November 29, 1982, our government and the United Nations Development Program formally signed a document to support the primary health care project. Provisions: from May 1983 to May 1985 the United Nations Development Program gave 600,000 U.S. dollars to Pucheng County and six counties, including Guanxian County in Sichuan Province, Wuming County in Guangxi Province, Xiaoshan County in Zhejiang Province, Jixian County in Tianjin Province, and Jinxian County in Liaoning Province, in order to develop medical and health care. In May 1983, Zhao Qinxue, deputy director of the county health bureau, accompanied the national grass-roots health inspection team to visit Thailand, Australia and New Zealand to learn about the status of hospitals and health service management in these countries. This was the first ever overseas study tour for the health sector in Pucheng County. From July 31 to August 4 of the same year, Dr. Nitin Christ, a short-term consultant of the United Nations World Health Organization, and his team made a detailed inspection of the health work in Pucheng County. They visited the county hospital, the health epidemic prevention station, the maternal and child health care station, the health school as well as the Party Mutual, Yongfeng Hospital, Chengguan Town, Dongjie Maternity Hospital, etc. In December, the United Nations World Health Organization formally identified Pucheng County as a primary health care demonstration county. in January, 1984, the county health bureau sent a representative to participate in the Ministry of Health to convene the national four primary health care cooperation centers and six health demonstration counties exchange of information meeting; on February 20, the the primary health care demonstration county leadership group was established; from June to July, the leadership group sent representatives to participate in the educational methods and service management study class held by the Ministry of Health to lay the theoretical foundation for a good health demonstration county. in 1984, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization Office in Beijing*** agreed to allocate to Pucheng County items and instruments worth 52,280 U.S. dollars to provide the material basis for the construction of health demonstration county. In August 1985, Nitin Crist came to Pucheng again for a 4-day technical consulting service to inspect and guide 10 health and medical units, such as the county hospital, the epidemic prevention station, the sanitary school, the drug inspection office, the Yongfeng Township Health Center, the Yongfeng Village Health Center, the Sun Township Lot Hospital, the Maternal and Child Health Center, the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Dongjie Maternity Hospital. In 1987, the whole county carried out the activity of creating Grade A village health center, effectively changing the medical and health condition of farmers. At the same time, to take multiple channels and forms of rural maternity hospitals, the basic solution to the problem of maternal hospital delivery. 1988 and 1990, the county's health services continue to develop, medical conditions to further improve the lack of medicine in rural areas to further improve the situation.
As of 2012, the county's health care institutions 30, 1695 beds, health professionals and technicians 1945 people, health epidemic prevention personnel 143 people, rural doctors 943 people. The pace of medical service system construction accelerated, the county hospital comprehensive inpatient building and Chinese medicine hospital medical building has completed the construction of the main project, will soon be put into use. Public **** health services have been further strengthened, establishing health records for urban and rural residents for 557,503 people (copies), 59,500 elderly people over the age of 65 underwent free medical checkups; 7,526 free delivery cards for pregnant women were processed, with subsidies amounting to 4.58 million yuan; 7.86 million yuan of aid for major illnesses was issued to 1,840 rural residents. Compensation funds of 8.5472 million yuan were provided for patients suffering from 19 special chronic diseases, and 54,306 children aged 0 to 6 years were vaccinated free of charge with national immunization plan vaccines. Free medical treatment was provided to 212 tuberculosis patients, and free sight-restoring surgery was provided to 1,329 poor cataract patients. The county's new rural cooperative medical care enrolled 612,526 farmers, a participation rate of 96.92%, an increase of 1.2 percentage points over the previous year. The number of participants who received compensation was 571,400, and the compensation cost was 116 million yuan, with 765 people enjoying more than 10,000 yuan. Won the "province's new rural cooperative system construction advanced county" honorary title. The basic drugs "three unified" system was implemented, with 1,353 items of drugs dispensed at the village and township levels. According to the relevant historical books and tablets, in ancient times, the folk of Pucheng had practiced boxing stick (martial arts), qigong, chess and other sports activities for the purpose of physical strength, self-defense and entertainment. Li Yingze, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, wrote a detailed account of the practice of qigong in the "Record of Longhe Guan, Built by Fengyang of the Euphrates". According to some old people's memories, in the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there were many folk sports activities in the city and the countryside, except for martial arts, qigong and chess, such as mountain climbing, kite flying, swinging, rope skipping, shuttlecock kicking, hitting hairy eggs, running, high jumping, jumping, archery, swimming, lifting the stone locks, arm-wrestling, wrestling, stone-throwing (throwing far), hitting the wattle (throwing), and so on. After the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927), the school began to have basketball activities, and then volleyball, soccer, tennis, table tennis, badminton, shooting and other activities. After the founding of New China, under the guidance of Chairman Mao Zedong's sports policy of "developing sports and enhancing people's physical fitness", sports in Pucheng County developed rapidly. There were regular activities and institutionalized competitions. At the beginning, sports were managed by the County Culture and Education Bureau, and in 1958, the Pucheng County Sports Committee (referred to as "Sports Committee") was set up, which was in charge of sports in both urban and rural areas of the county; in 1962, a lighted stadium of more than 1,800 square meters was built behind the Employees' Club with a capacity of 4,000 spectators; in 1965, a large-scale open-air stadium of more than 13,000 square meters was built in Yan'an West Road. In 1965, a large open-air stadium of more than 13,000 square meters was built on West Yan'an Road, equipped with a running track, basketball poles, volleyball nets, single bar, double bar and other sports equipment, while a table tennis hall of 862 square meters was constructed. 1985, Guandi Village in Chengguan Town and Nanjie Elementary School spent more than 160,000 yuan to build a roller-skating rink of more than 1,000 square meters, with a 500-square-meter swimming pool, in the back alley of the Guandi Temple. 1989, the county government moved the stadium to the South Ring Road, where the stadium was built. Stadium moved to the South Ring Road to build a 46,600-square-meter modern stadium with more facilities. In order to cultivate sports talents, the county sports committee set up an amateur sports school as early as August 1965 (interrupted by the ten-year "Cultural Revolution"), which had three classes of table tennis, basketball and gymnastics at that time. To the 80's, the amateur sports school has been able to cultivate out of the county competition track and field athletes 299, basketball players 125, table tennis players 67, 37 gymnasts, which to the army and the relevant units of the country to send basketball, table tennis and other athletes 22.
As of 2012, there are 43 social art groups, 2 professional art groups and 21 art training institutions in the county. Built 12 town cultural service stations, village-level stadiums 78, farm bookstores to achieve full coverage, cable TV household rate of 41.1%. Cultural system reform has made a major breakthrough, the development of cultural industry momentum, cultural market supervision further strengthened, the mass cultural activities are rich and colorful. The county troupe sent more than 200 plays to the countryside, theater singing and dancing performances more than 80 shows, held various kinds of cultural evenings, cultural competitions 19 times, started the Qinqiang "weekend dollar theater". Cultural heritage protection and development and utilization of significant achievements, was approved by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage as a pilot county to carry out cultural heritage knowledge propaganda and popularization work. Yang Hucheng Memorial Hall, Wang Ding Memorial Hall and county libraries, cultural centers, towns and cultural stations open free of charge. The annual output value of the cultural industry was 15.92 million yuan, an increase of 24.3% over the previous year. Before the founding of the country, Pucheng had no specialized science and technology organization. After the establishment of new China, in December 1958, the establishment of Pucheng County Science and Technology Commission (referred to as "Science and Technology Commission"). 1963 February streamlining of the organization was withdrawn. 1977 September set up the Pucheng County Revolutionary Committee Seismic Bureau in May 1978 to restore the Pucheng County Science and Technology Commission, *** have cadres 23 people.
In March 1985, the Science and Technology Development Center was established by the Science and Technology Committee, with a staff of 4 people. Its guiding ideology is: based on local resources, focusing on scientific and technological development, facing the township enterprises, pay attention to economic benefits, for the doubling of Pucheng economy. The tasks of the center are: to develop new products, to transmit scientific and technological information, to train technical personnel, to contact rural scientific and technological households, and to provide a variety of scientific and technological services. And in accordance with the "National Science and Technology Management Trial Regulations", the Science and Technology Cadre Section was established by the Science and Technology Committee, unified management of the county's natural and social science cadres, responsible for the assessment of scientific and technological cadres, selection, promotion and training work.
Agricultural Science Research Center In March 1953, the county agricultural technology guidance station was established, which is the earliest scientific and technological institutions in Pucheng County. 1976 was changed to Pucheng Agricultural Science Research Institute, responsible for research and promotion of agricultural technology. 1983 was changed to the Agricultural Science Research Center, under the leadership of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, which consists of an office and four stations of agricultural technology, soil fertilizer, plant protection, agriculture and mulberry horticulture, and three companies, such as apple and mulberry, and dispatched the apple and mulberry. 3 companies, and sent apples, cash crops, dry crops, 3 groups were based in Hanking, Dangmu and Sun Town to guide the work.
Agricultural Machinery Research Institute was established in 1963, the task is to introduce, publicize and promote agricultural machinery, to carry out the county's agricultural research, belonging to the Agricultural Machinery Bureau.
Forestry Science Research Institute was established in 1980, the task is to study forestry planting, seedling and afforestation technology, test the advantages and disadvantages of tree varieties, the introduction of the promotion of good species of trees, the use of the site of scientific experiments, etc., belonging to the Forestry Bureau.
As of 2012, the county's scientific and technological research and promotion institutions 11, all kinds of science and technology associations more than 150, *** have all kinds of professional and technical personnel 10642 people. Around the leading industries, pillar industries to organize various types of training more than 400 (times), the distribution of more than 100,000 copies of information, to answer difficult questions more than 6,000, training personnel 110,000 people (times), the national scientific and technological and cultural quality and practical science and technology level has been improved.