Time of the urban and rural medical assistance system

In 1998, China began to establish a basic medical insurance system for urban workers, followed by the launching of a new type of rural cooperative medical care system on a pilot basis and the establishment of urban and rural medical assistance systems. By 2007, it was mainly non-working urban residents who were not covered by the medical insurance system. Therefore, in order to realize the goal of basically establishing a medical insurance system covering all residents in urban and rural areas, the State Council decided to launch a pilot basic medical insurance system for urban residents from 2007, and in January 2016, the State Council issued the Opinions of the State Council on the Integration of the Basic Medical Insurance System for Urban and Rural Residents. The Opinions pointed out that the integration of urban residents' basic medical insurance and the new rural cooperative medical system, the establishment of a unified urban and rural residents' basic medical insurance (hereinafter referred to as urban and rural residents' medical insurance) system.