In the speech, Dr. Wang Yu mentioned that as current demand for healthcare kept growing, to satisfy the medical care demand and guarantee sustainable supply, the transition from treatment centered to health management centered requires the impetus of policy environment and support of market conditions. Against such backdrop, the Innovation Center for Health Insurance and Health Management under the GHF came into being. The Center will actively explore the supply and demand model of big health in respect of policy research, strategy analysis, connection between enterprises and government, commercial insurance, medicine, medical equipment and health management. In the meantime, it will launch cooperation projects with cities and special activities, and establish horizontal cooperation and communication with other innovation centers in other fields. He noted that the Innovation Center would cooperate with Qingdao of Shandong province to alleviate the burdens of cerebral stroke and cooperate with Hainan province to eliminate liver disease, with an aim to collectively promote the action plan of eliminating liver hepatitis, which will become a demonstration to promote widespread pilot programs in other cities with higher chronic disease fatality (like cancer, cerebral stroke, heart disease, hepatitis). Local governments, medical institutions, commercial insurance, health management should coordinate across the board to jointly contribute to the establishment of healthy China and a new and long term effective health management mechanism with people’s health as the core.

Director General Mr. Xu Shuqiang elaborated on the policy direction of China's current medical and health system reform, and he emphasized that we should implement the important spiritual instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, stick to the direction and focus of deepening medical reform, accelerate the availability of quality medical resources, ensure they are better distributed, set up a new system of medical and health services, and enhance the systemic, holistic and synergistic nature of medical reform. At the local level, we should take into account the actual situation and speed up the formation of a new pattern of orderly access to medical care and treatment. In the meantime, as a new industry, the healthcare sector should seize the new opportunities brought by the healthy China strategy, satisfy the health needs of the people, and play a significant role in private hospitals.

Participants of the launching ceremony (from left to right): Peng Xuan, CEO of Yuanxin Huibao; Sun Danying, Vice Chairman of HSBC Insurance Asia Pacific Holdings Limited; Zheng Zhijie, Director of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Peking University; Luo Xiaoqin, Deputy Director of the Conference Organizing Committee; Wang Yu, Expert Consultant to GHF and former Director of the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Zhu Junsheng, Director of the China Insurance and Pension Research Center of the PBC School of Finance at Tsinghua University, Chief Consultant of the Innovation Center for Health Insurance and Health Management; Zhu Yougang, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman and CEO of Ping An Health; Wang Yusheng, Chairman of Zhongfang Tongyong Chinese Medicine Network Hospital Co.

The closed-door seminar held by the Organizing Committee targets to set up the platform of intensive exchanges for the government and enterprises, focuses on both policies and markets, jointly exploring new ideas for high quality development of health management.