The guidelines also ask hospitals to form committees to offer professional advice on medical quality and pharmaceutical management.

Wang said that the guidelines highlight the responsibility of local government to establish and supervise public hospitals, and stress the importance of Party work on public hospitals.

More than 2,300 public hospitals nationwide participated in health care reform in 2016, according to a report issued by the health care reform leading group under the State Council.

The guidelines request governments at all levels to draft relevant reform plans, for example, to issue policies regarding the hierarchical medical system.

"They will help to direct resources to grassroots health institutions, and ease the burden of registration and surgery operations in public hospitals," Wang said.

The hierarchical medical system pilot program will be expanded to reach at least 85 percent of prefecture-level regions this year, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

China has earmarked over 1.4 trillion yuan (207 billion U.S. dollars) in its budget for health and medical expenditure in 2017.

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