Li Bin stressed that health and family planning work should be based on the circumstances in Xinjiang. It should focus on planning, talent and reform. Relevant parties responsible for assistance to Xinjiang should play a positive role, and policy, project and measures should be taken to comprehensively upgrade Xinjiang's health and family planning development. First, all parties should give priority to planning; strengthen health and family planning service system construction from 2016-2020; offer more favorable policies; improve medical facilities at agricultural and pastoral areas; enhance construction of disease control and prevention centers and maternity and child care institutions at prefecture and county levels; and improve the community-level medical, health care and family planning service system in southern Xinjiang. Second, all parties should insist on sending talent to support Xinjiang. It should comprehensively raise community-level health and family planning service abilities. The 10,000-doctor project for Xinjiang's rural health program should be carried out, and plans should be made to send more health professionals to Xinjiang for assistance for half a year or a year. A personnel salary system based on the medical system and medical personnel skills and values should be explored first in southern Xinjiang to stabilize the talent team. Third, all personnel should adhere to the basic national policy and take care of family planning work. They should carry out the two-child policy, take steps to adjust and optimize the family planning policy, strictly control unplanned birth, insist on the one-veto mechanism in family planning, implement the special reward policy in rural family planning and the reproductive health project for farmers and herdsmen, refer to the experience of Guizhou's Bijie pilot area, and formulate pertinent measures to consolidate community-level family planning work in southern Xinjiang. Fourth, all personnel should adjust measures to local conditions, actively support the development of the traditional Chinese and folk medicine, strengthen county-level ethnic hospital standardized construction, help with application and review of Xinjiang ethnic medicine, enhance specialized disease treatment capacity building, and take steps to incorporate 47 State-approved local ethnic medicines to the national health insurance system. Fifth, all parties should focus on bringing benefits to local people, strive to raise public health level, continue to implement major public health projects, strengthen infectious and endemic disease prevention and control, and set up the medical service team to help Xinjiang step up medical assistance to Xinjiang and improve the health level of local people.

Zhang Chunxian spoke highly of the achievements in health and family planning work in Xinjiang. Zhang asked relevant parties to strengthen the local health and family planning foundation, speed up construction of the public health service system, enhance family planning work guidance and assistance, support Xinjiang in building a regional medical service center on the Silk Road economic belt, and push Xinjiang's health and family planning development to a new stage.

The central government has earmarked 18.9 billion yuan ($3.08 billion) since 2010 to deepen medicine and health system reform and strengthen family planning work. The NHFPC has arranged for 19 budget and medical and health units to build ties with Xinjiang for assistance. There were a total of 299 special programs for Xinjiang involving 3.5 billion yuan to help local health and family planning infrastructure construction, medical equipment purchase, talent cultivation and health informatization construction.

A total of 3,582 management officials and health technical personnel were sent to Xinjiang; 688 officials from Xinjiang have taken a temporary post outside Xinjiang; 4,155 trainings have been held; and 160,000 health and family planning personnel have received training. A total of 3,503 medical personnel were sent to Xinjiang, treating 1.56 million patients and performing more than 130,000 operations.

The Zhejiang Health and Family Planning Committee, the Hami prefecture department of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the sixth division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps made speeches at the meeting. The video conference had its main venue in Urumqi and branch sessions across Xinjiang's prefectures. Officials from the NHFPC; Xinjiang's health and family planning departments and health bureaus; and the health and family planning department of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps attended the meeting. Officials from the general office of the Xinjiang work coordination group, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office were also present.

Nur Bekri, chair of the Xinjiang government; Bai Zhijie, secretary-general of Xinjiang; and Ma Xuejun, secretary of the Party committee in Xinjiang, attended the meeting.