The National Health Commission held a press conference on the 18th, introducing the situation of further improving mechanisms to continuously promote the transfer of urban medical resources to county-level hospitals and urban and rural grassroots. Fu Wei, Director of the Grassroots Department of the National Health Commission, introduced that China is accelerating the construction of grassroots information systems and infrastructure, focusing on improving the level of digital and intelligent application of grassroots medical and health services. Actively promote remote medical services. Establish and improve a remote medical service network to provide remote consultation services at the grassroots level. Currently, the remote medical service network has covered all cities and counties, and has extended coverage to communities and rural grassroots. Monitoring shows that 70% of health clinics nationwide have established remote medical cooperation relationships with higher-level hospitals. Strengthen data exchange, sharing, and business collaboration. This year, we will focus on promoting the unification of county-level medical community information systems in various regions, promoting the construction of resource sharing centers for county-level medical imaging, medical testing, electrocardiogram diagnosis, and other resources, and better achieving mutual recognition of grassroots examinations, superior diagnoses, and results. Among them, county-level medical imaging centers have already covered 50% of township health centers. Some regions have established regional prescription review centers to carry out pre prescription review and prescription review, strengthen pharmaceutical management, and enable the public to use medication with confidence and rationality at the grassroots level. Promote the application of medical artificial intelligence assisted diagnostic technology at the grassroots level. Pilot projects have been carried out in some areas to provide decision-making support for common and frequently occurring diseases to grassroots general practitioners and rural doctors through auxiliary diagnosis and treatment systems, improving the standardization level of electronic medical records and the quality of diagnosis and treatment services in grassroots institutions. As of the end of 2023, grassroots institutions in 27 pilot counties have provided diagnostic recommendations more than 26 million times through auxiliary diagnosis and treatment systems. Li Dachuan, Deputy Director of the Medical Administration Department of the National Health Commission, introduced that the medical service capacity of counties in China has significantly improved. In 2023, 2062 county hospitals participated in the county hospital capacity assessment, covering 98.6% of the county. Among them, 1894 county hospitals have reached the service capacity of second level or above hospitals, and among them, 1163 hospitals have reached the medical service capacity of third level hospitals. Li Dachuan said that China adheres to a focus on the grassroots level, adopts various forms of support, and promotes the sinking of urban medical resources to county-level and urban-rural grassroots. Carry out medical talent group style assistance to key counties for national rural revitalization. By adopting a teacher led apprenticeship and team led approach, we help the assisted hospitals cultivate comprehensive management and professional technical talents, and enhance their comprehensive abilities. At present, 148 key assisted hospitals have reached the service capacity of second level or above hospitals, of which 67 have reached the service capacity of third level hospitals. Continuously carry out targeted assistance work for tertiary hospitals. Organize 1173 tertiary hospitals to provide targeted assistance to 1496 county-level hospitals in 940 counties, helping county hospitals strengthen a group of clinical specialties, bring out a group of professional backbone, fill a group of technical gaps, and improve a group of management systems. At present, 85% of county-level hospitals in targeted assistance have reached the service capacity of second level or above hospitals, of which 44% have reached the service capacity of third level hospitals, an increase of 6 percentage points and 20 percentage points respectively compared to 2020. Since 2005, we have organized and implemented ten thousand physicians to support rural health projects, and have dispatched over 80000 medical personnel from tertiary hospitals to support work in county hospitals. Since 2011, the national medical team has been organized to carry out mobile medical services, dispatching a total of 170 national medical teams with over 1000 medical personnel. With a focus on counties and townships, the team carries out mobile medical work such as disease diagnosis and treatment, health education, and personnel training, directly delivering high-quality medical services to the people. Fu Wei said that the three-level medical and health service network in counties and villages in China has been continuously improved, basically achieving full coverage of basic medical and health services for urban and rural residents. In 2023, more than 200000 doctors were dispatched from township health centers nationwide to village clinics, effectively improving the level of medical and health services at the village level. This year, we will further expand and extend the service chain, promote the sinking of urban medical resources to county hospitals and grassroots, and solve the problem of relatively scarce high-quality service resources in rural areas. (Lai Xin She)