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Health: China’s Revolution

Published: May 2015

Over the past 10 years China has been reforming its health care system and is attempting to reduce the huge health gap between urban and rural areas where almost one million of barefoot doctors – often trained very late to medical technologies – are still the unique specialists on the ground. Facing a rapidly aging population, growing inequalities, strong urbanization, major territorial imbalance, soaring house prices, “middle class expectations, pollution challenges and new protest movements, authorities have to invest more”, as the daily paper Les Echos pointed out. Spending on social welfare has reached 8% of the current GDP against 4% in 2000. In this context of strong economic growth what are the business opportunities and possible collaborations for French companies?

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Connexions is CCIFC's business support magazine, which provides information about the French economy in China. Each issue focuses on a different growing industry in China and advises on business opportunities for francophone companies.

Over the past 10 years China has been reforming its health care system and is attempting to reduce the huge health gap between urban and rural areas where almost one million of barefoot doctors – often trained very late to medical technologies – are still the unique specialists on the ground. Facing a rapidly aging population, growing inequalities, strong urbanization, major territorial imbalance, soaring house prices, “middle class expectations, pollution challenges and new protest movements, authorities have to invest more”, as the daily paper Les Echos pointed out. Spending on social welfare has reached 8% of the current GDP against 4% in 2000. In this context of strong economic growth what are the business opportunities and possible collaborations for French companies?

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