Transition and Reform: Chinese Business Environment

Transition and Reform: Treatment for China’s Healthcare System


Introduction
Chinese Healthcare policies are still in a transitional phase despite the many reforms that have been implemented during the Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin era over the past twenty-five years. Healthcare reform in China continues to evolve in a haphazard format seemingly reliant on experimental policies trying to institute market-oriented, rather than collective-oriented, health centers. Understanding the history of Chinese Healthcare policies and infrastructure of the Healthcare system since 1949, the beginning of the Communist Era in China, is essential, and therefore will be presented for background informational purposes. During the post-Mao period of the 1980’s and the 1990’s healthcare reforms in the rural and urban areas of China have been dynamic and present a political and economic conundrum for present-day China.

Healthcare Under Mao
The healthcare system unde...