National Health Commission： By 2025, the total number of health workers in China is expected to reach 16 million.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 18th, by 2025, the total number of health workers will reach 16 million, the ratio of doctors and nurses in public hospitals will gradually reach about 1:2, and health technicians will account for more than 75% in primary medical and health institutions … … Recently, the National Health and Wellness Commission issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Health and Wellness Talents", which proposed a number of major goals for the development of health and wellness talents in China.

　　Talent is the key to promote the high-quality development of health undertakings and the construction of a healthy China. According to the plan, during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period, the overall goal of the development of health talents in China is to promote the improvement of talent service ability and structural optimization, improve the talent management system and mechanism, and create a good environment for talent development.

　　The plan analyzes the new situation and new tasks faced by the construction of health talent team in China from six aspects: strengthening the construction of health talent team and deepening the reform of talent development system and mechanism.

　　In strengthening the construction of health technical personnel, the plan proposes to further expand the scale of doctors and optimize the professional, urban and rural and regional layout. By 2025, there will be 4.5 million licensed (assistant) doctors and 5.5 million registered nurses nationwide. And improve the level of physician allocation, focusing on grassroots, shortage of specialties, clinical key specialties and so on.

　　The plan also proposes to vigorously strengthen the construction of public health talents. By 2025, the number of professional public health institutions will increase to 1.2 million, including 250,000 in disease prevention and control institutions.

　　In terms of the system and mechanism of talent development, the plan proposes to rationally formulate the staffing standards of public medical and health institutions and establish a dynamic nuclear increase mechanism. According to the changes of service population, service radius and other factors, the establishment of primary medical and health institutions will be dynamically adjusted, and the primary medical and health institutions will be "supplemented" and fully guaranteed.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Personnel Department of the National Health and Wellness Commission said that in the next step, the National Health and Wellness Commission will focus on solving practical problems with strong talent reflection and accelerate the construction of the health and wellness talent team. Through a series of measures, we will promote the continuous improvement of the service ability of health professionals and the continuous optimization of the distribution of talent structure, actively create a policy and institutional environment for gathering talents, constantly stimulate the vitality of talents, and provide strong talent support for accelerating the construction of a healthy China.