The General Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China publishes the federal document "The Work Schedule of Strengthen The Reform of Medical System 2013" descripting what kind of emphasizes are included in the schedule. To better understand the schedule, the journalist, Sun Tiexiang had an interview with associated specialists.

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The professor Yao Lan is from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Medical School, and he thinks that the new reform is clearly defines the correct direction. The content of the schedule aims to implement the reform of the medical theory and thoughts under the guiding of the direction. It would means a lot to the previous work. Ma Jin, the president of the School of Public Health of Shang Hai Jiao Tong University, expresses that the core step of the reform of the medical system has been moved from the basic and local hospitals to public hospitals. In that case, the more complex management structures will be involved. Besides, the reform will impact the deeper stage of the profit pattern and the Schedule would emphasize the issue.

According to the Schedule, it is said that from the local governments to the upper governments, they should adjust the finance pattern to meet the requirement that the rising rate of the public health expense should be higher than the general financial expense. They have to ensure that the fund arrives in time. More work should be done in the twelfth five-year plan period than the year of 2009-2011. 

Ma Jin points out that the Schedule presents that the government pays more attention to the public health development for the citizens via reforming the medical compensation standard and the construction of the basic medical institution to a great extent. "Defining the responsibility clearly" is another advantage of the Schedule. The document defines which department is responsible for which items and work and documented in the federal files. It gives the associated departments pressure which will enforce them to complete their work on time.  Besides, it helps to avoid the problem that the government officials could not fine the responsibilities. It is a cooperating reform that requires the entire team work, from the higher level government and hospitals to the lower level government and hospitals. Li Ling, the professor from the Economic Research Center of Peking University, says that the effects can be observed from the trial sites of those hospitals in the initial stage. The next step would focus on creating new structure to satisfy the medical reform. With the help of both political document and the creative structure, the medical reform would have a better outcome.