Chinese public hospitals receive increasing government funds

Mobile phone footage in this photo shows experts of the Second Hospital of Anhui Medical University (AMU) guiding an endoscopic surgery conducted by the Shitai County People's Hospital through a 5G-supported remote collaborative operating platform at the Second Hospital of AMU in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, May 10, 2019. Chinese government subsidies to public hospitals have increased by 15.6 percent annually since 2010, a health official said Friday. The government allocated 270.5 billion yuan (39.26 billion U.S. dollars) of subsidies directly to public hospitals in 2018, up from 84.9 billion yuan in 2010, said Zhu Hongbiao, a senior official with the National Health Commission, at a press conference. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)