The National Health Work Conference was recently held in Beijing. The meeting pointed out that in 2023, the healthcare industry will steadily strive for progress, the public's medical experience will continue to improve, and the people's health level will continue to improve. In 2024, the national health system will make efforts in the following areas. One is to steadfastly promote the deepening of various tasks in medical reform. Deepen the construction of medical consortia with personnel sinking as the core, coordinate the construction of "dual centers" and clinical specialties with the implementation of functional positioning as the focus, continuously promote the high-quality development of public hospitals with "three transformations and three improvements" as the direction, and promote the coordinated development and governance of "three medical" with the promotion of the experience of the Three Ming medical reform as the starting point. The second is to focus on promoting service capacity building at the grassroots level. Continuously strengthen the capacity building of county hospitals and deepen the "Thousand County Project". Continuously enhancing grassroots disease prevention, treatment, and health management capabilities, steadily expanding the scale of targeted free medical student training in rural areas, and further increasing the proportion of township health centers and community health service centers meeting national capacity standards. Continuously improve the quality of medical services, strengthen the aging friendly and convenient transformation of wards. Expand the recruitment scale of professional nursing talents and continuously improve medical nursing services. The third is to promote long-term balanced population development. Strengthen the organizational leadership of population work, deepen population monitoring, early warning, and situation analysis. Accelerate the improvement of birth support policies and measures, and vigorously develop inclusive childcare services. The fourth is to fully leverage the important supporting role of technological innovation and talent teams. Accelerate the construction of a technology innovation system that conforms to industry characteristics, strengthen scientific and technological research, promote the application and promotion of achievements, and help open up new tracks for future industries such as life sciences. Deepen the collaboration between medical and educational institutions, promote the implementation of the plan for high-level medical talents, and continuously strengthen the training of grassroots and scarce professional talents such as general practitioners. The fifth is to steadily promote the implementation of the Healthy China Action. Intensify the coordinated promotion of the patriotic health movement. Strengthen the prevention and control of major chronic diseases, and actively develop a comprehensive chronic disease prevention and control system centered on health management. Improve the elderly health service system, optimize maternal and child health services, deepen occupational disease hazard monitoring and management, and strengthen the construction of food safety standards. Sixth, promote the inheritance, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese medicine. We will comprehensively implement the major project of revitalizing and developing traditional Chinese medicine, strengthen the construction of national advantageous specialties in traditional Chinese medicine, and fully leverage the unique advantages of traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of diseases, rehabilitation, as well as the prevention and treatment of myopia and obesity in children and adolescents. The seventh is to promote the high-quality development of the disease control system. Implement the guiding opinions on promoting the high-quality development of disease control, strengthen the core functions of disease control institutions, strengthen the construction of intelligent multi-point triggered infectious disease monitoring and early warning systems, and accelerate the filling of infrastructure and laboratory equipment gaps in disease control institutions at all levels. Eight is to prevent and resolve major risks in the field of health and hygiene. Efforts will be made to prevent and resolve risks related to major infectious disease epidemics, biosafety, and production safety, and to promote high-quality development and high-level safety interaction. The ninth is to coordinate and promote key tasks such as the rule of law, emergency response, and international exchanges. Strengthen the construction of the rule of law in health and hygiene, strengthen legal education and compliance, enhance emergency response capabilities for emergencies, and actively participate in global health governance. (Lixin News Agency) (Reporter Xiong Jian)