No less than 90 percent of the migrant population across the country will enjoy the basic public health service by 2020, according to a management plan released by China's top health watchdog on Feb 14.

Released by the National Health and Family Commission (NHFPC), the plan shows that the census, dynamic monitoring, and decision-making supporting system would be further improved.

The health and family planning information of the migrant population will be managed by information technology in a comprehensive way, wrote the plan. 

Statistics show that the migrant population of China reached 247 million, accounting for 18 percent of the national total. Of those, 75 percent of the population has transferred from rural to urban areas. 

It is predicted that the number will be 200 million by 2020. 

Most of the migrant population are young and vigorous, but lack of health literacy, according to the plan.

Both physical and psychological problems are easy to be overlooked and thus, pose a challenge to the public health service. Those people are also more vulnerable to infectious diseases. 

The plan gives specific targets by 2020 regarding six indexes, including the basic public health service, health education, children's preventive vaccination, physical examination for children under three, and family planning services.