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Nearly seventy years have gone by since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The introduction of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978—a milestone in Chinese history—marks a watershed between the period of planned economy and the period of reform towards a market economy. Given completely different economic and social environments, the healthcare systems of the two periods are quite distinct.
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Fang, L. (2018). China’s Healthcare Policy from 1949 to 2008. In: The Chinese Health System in Transition. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0758-4_2
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