The National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) held a conference on healthcare reform of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Fujian provinces and Shanghai municipality. Li Bin, minister of the NHFPC, attended the conference and delivered a speech.

Li noted that the areas discussed are pioneers in China's healthcare reform, and have made significant achievements in key sectors of the reform. 

Now, the municipality and four provinces are to set up a joint conference system for healthcare reform that will ensure the five areas can share experiences and learn from each other. The joint conference system will boost the potential for the areas to cooperate in order to push forward large scale healthcare reform and upgrade China's health industry, offering more benefits for common people.

Li urged that the five areas should learn the experiences and necessities behind healthcare reform and take measures according to the local situations, cooperatively strengthening and coordinating development in these areas and making them a demonstration of China's healthcare reform. 

At the conference, representatives from the five areas signed an agreement on establishing a joint conference system for healthcare reform. Also taking part in the conference were officials from the four provinces and one municipality, the NHFPC and relevant professionals.