In the early years of the Republic of China, there were still no medical and health institutions in the county, but private pharmacies in the county and Anbian continued to open. The Republic of 10 years (1921), the county's "Fushun and", Anbian "back to the spring hall" two drugstores also operates Western medicine. 19 years (1930), there is the release of armor back to the county doctor Hou Dianyuan, opened the clinic, is the beginning of the county's Western medical. Republic of 25 years (1936), Dingbian County Soviet Government set up a special health care institutions, extensive hygiene, disease prevention, superstition, believe in science propaganda and education. Later, it built a health care pharmacy. In cooperation with the garrison hospital, the establishment of Chinese and Western medicine research society, pioneering the county's surgical treatment.
After 1949, the reform and development of medical and health care is very fast, not only the management of medicine and health of the administrative institutions sound, and medical, epidemic prevention and other institutions throughout the townships, the number of health professionals and the quality of the increase year by year and improve the quality of medical equipment year by year to improve the level of science and culture of the masses of the people continue to improve. October 12, 1994, the township hospitals can be practiced in different forms of Contract responsibility system, that is, the dean of the contract, township, village jointly run, individual contracting share cooperation, etc..
In 2010, Dingbian County **** there are 29 hospitals, health centers, including 4 county hospitals, township health centers 25. Hospitals and health centers*** have 931 beds, Dingbian County*** has 626 health technicians, including 226 doctors, with 2.1 beds and 0.8 doctors per 1,000 people. The rural health service network is further improved, with 342 village health offices*** approved by the health authorities, 144 more than in 2009, 17 individual clinics in towns and 1 factory and school infirmary. On November 2, 1994, Dingbian County cable TV station was officially completed and opened. The cable TV station can broadcast 14 sets of TV programs all day long, including one set of self-organized programs. Benefited from the residents of more than 6,000 households, the signal quality to meet the standards of the Ministry. The total investment of 2.45 million yuan.
November 2, 1996, the cable TV encryption channel was officially opened, and at the same time broadcast the central four sets of encrypted TV programs. March 18, 1997, Shaanxi Province encryption of the opening of the TV channel, the whole day can be broadcast Shaanxi TV programs. June 29, 1998, the opening of the Xingliang microwave station to broadcast, Dingbian people have been able to see the program of the Yulin TV station.
In 2010, the radio population coverage rate of 96.5%, the TV population coverage rate of 92.0%, the cable TV household rate of 23.8%; county library collection of 83,000 books, an increase of 15.3% over 2009.