Liu Qian, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) inspected hospitals of Xishuangbanna prefecture in Yunnan province from December 10 to 11, while acquiring insights into community-level medical institutions through the local medical staff.

Liu praised Xishuangbanna prefecture's improvements in healthcare reform. 

He said that the next step for Yunnan should be to push forward the coordination of medical insurance, medicine and medical care. 

Yunnan provincial government should reform public hospitals by optimizing medical insurance payment system, improving medical services at the community level and supporting the development of the Dai ethnic group's medicines therapeutic approaches.

Relevant officials from the health departments and Xishuangbanna prefectural government accompanied Liu's inspection.