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China's New Five-Year Health Plan: Raising Life Expectancy to 80 by 2030
The State Council-approved plan outlines key priorities to improve public health, expand access to care, and strengthen the healthcare system.
China has approved a new five-year plan to raise the national average life expectancy from 79.25 in 2025 to 80 by 2030, with an emphasis on strengthening public medical services and advancing the Healthy China initiative.
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What the Plan Aims to Achieve
China is targeting an average life expectancy of 80 by 2030, up from the 79.25 recorded in 2025. This target is part of a State Council-approved plan designed to improve public medical services and support the broader Healthy China initiative.
The plan focuses on expanding fair access to healthcare and encouraging wider public awareness of proactive health management. It also aims to bring China's core health indicators in line with those of high-income economies.
In addition, the plan calls for reinforced public health emergency response capabilities and improved primary-level disease prevention and treatment.
- Raise average life expectancy to 80 by 2030, up from 79.25 in 2025
- Expand fair access to healthcare
- Encourage proactive health management
- Align core health indicators with high-income economies
- Strengthen public health emergency response
- Improve primary-level disease prevention and treatment
Key Tasks and Focus Areas
The plan highlights several major tasks, including optimizing all-round life-cycle health services for all people and building integrated, high-quality medical networks.
It also aims to shore up robust health safeguards, cultivate new growth engines for the health sector, and advance health-centered governance in the sector.
- Optimize all-round life-cycle health services
- Build integrated, high-quality medical networks
- Shore up robust health safeguards
- Cultivate new growth engines for the health sector
- Advance health-centered governance in the health sector
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