| Health is the basis for promoting all-round human development,a booster for long-term economic and social development,and the foundation for the establishment of the state,and it plays an important role in economy,politics and culture.Since the founding of the Communist Party of China(CPC),safeguarding the health of the people has increasingly become a strategic plan that the Party and the country have given priority to and attached great importance to,and occupies a prominent position in the overall development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Since the18 th Party Congress,the Party Central Committee,with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,has attached great importance to people’s life safety and health,made a major decision to implement the "Health China" strategy,put forward scientific health and health work guidelines,all-round,full-cycle protection of people’s health.The Party’s 20 th National Congress report is a banner to vigorously "promote the construction of a healthy China,put the protection of people’s health in a strategic position of priority development,establish a birth support policy system,implement a national strategy to actively cope with the aging population,promote the development of Chinese medicine heritage innovation,improve the public health system,strengthen the prevention and control of major epidemics and rescue system and emergency response capacity building,and effectively curb the spread of major infectious diseases".This is the theoretical distillation of the CPC in promoting people’s health work practice,which contains profound theoretical character and realistic reflection.The CPC in the new era has inherited and developed the ideas on people’s health from the classical writers of Marxism and the successive leading groups of the CPC,drawn on the health concepts embedded in the excellent Chinese traditional culture,and based on the profound and complex reality of socialist modernization construction,and nurtured the Party’s ideas on people’s health in the new era.The Party’s ideology of people’s health in the new era is based on the fundamental guarantee of the Party’s overall leadership of the people’s health cause,the value pursuit of people first and life first as the core meaning,"big health,big health" as the basic concept,health innovation as the driving force of development,and adherence to the common construction and sharing of all people as the path to achieve,which is rich in connotation and far-reaching intention,and is the fundamental guide for China’s medical health and health development in the new era.The Party’s thought on people’s health in the new era is an ideology and theory with unique Chinese characteristics,showing five significant features in its theoretical character.It shows five significant characteristics in its theoretical character,namely,inheritance and modernity on the basis of its formation,party spirit and people’s character on the basis of its class position,systematicness and dialectics on its ideological connotation,strategic and leading on its main function,and national and cosmopolitan in its language expression.The Party’s thought on people’s health in the new era also has its important theoretical and practical values.In terms of theoretical value,the Party’s thought on people’s health in the new era has not only opened up a new horizon in the development of Marxist health concept,but also developed the thoughts of the Party’s successive leading groups on people’s health and enriched the socialist health theory with Chinese characteristics;in terms of practical value,the Party’s thought on people’s health in the new era has provided important guidelines for comprehensively promoting the construction of "Healthy China In terms of practical value,the Party’s people’s health ideology in the new era provides a clear practical direction for comprehensively promoting the construction of "Healthy China",provides important guidelines for modernizing the health governance system and governance capacity,and contributes China’s strength to jointly building a human health community. |