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Basic information: the legislative status and main highlights of the health and health promotion law
Legal analysis: "Without national health, there will be no overall well-off." 2020 is the decisive year for building a well-off society in an all-round way and the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan". Health law is the first basic and comprehensive law in the field of health in China. The biggest highlight of this law is that it directly puts forward that health is the basic rights and interests of human beings at the legal level for the first time, and activates the right to health in the basic rights of citizens in the Constitution in the form of law. Therefore, the formulation and implementation of this law will be conducive to the implementation of the Constitution's provisions on the development of medical and health undertakings and the protection of people's health, to guiding the overall reform and development of medical and health undertakings, and to promoting and ensuring the implementation of the healthy China strategy.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Basic Medical Care and Health Promotion Law.

Article 1 This Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution for the purpose of developing medical and health undertakings, ensuring citizens to enjoy basic medical and health services, improving citizens' health level and promoting the construction of a healthy China.

Article 2 This Law applies to medical treatment, health promotion and supervision and management activities.

Article 3 Medical and health undertakings shall adhere to the people-oriented principle and serve people's health.

Medical and health undertakings should adhere to the principle of public welfare.

Article 4 The state and society respect and protect citizens' right to health.

The state implements the strategy of healthy China, popularizes healthy life, optimizes health services, improves health protection, builds a healthy environment, develops health industries, and improves the health level of citizens throughout their life cycle.

The state establishes a health education system to protect citizens' right to health education and improve citizens' health literacy.

Article 5 Citizens have the right to obtain basic medical and health services provided by the state and society according to law.

The state establishes a basic medical and health system, establishes and improves a medical and health service system, and guarantees and realizes citizens' right to obtain basic medical and health services.