The top leadership of the Communist Party of China yesterday adopted a plan to build a healthy China in the next 15 years.

The blueprint, called "Healthy China 2030," was passed at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, which was presided over by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

Participants at the meeting said health was the basic condition for economic and social development and a key indicator of the nation's prosperity.

The "Healthy China 2030" plan is an important effort to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and to improve people's health, attendees said.

In the meantime, it is also important for China to engage in global health governance and implement the country's commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Attendees also noted that although Chinese people's health has historically kept improving, China still faces various challenges brought by industrialization, urbanization, an aging population, and changes in lifestyles.

The participants said the plan should focus on the country's new development concepts: innovation, environmental concern, coordination, and open and shared growth.

The primary goal of the plan was to enhance people's health, and it could be achieved with the help of institutional reform and innovation, the meeting said.

They added that future efforts should focus on promoting healthy lifestyles, optimizing health services, improving health security, building a healthy environment and developing health industries.

The government should play a leading role and the public should be mobilized to participate, attendees said, stressing that paying attention to the health of key groups such as women, children, seniors, migrants and low-income groups was of particular concern.

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