Primary healthcare facilities concept, better known as Community Health Centers (CHC) and Community Health Stations (CHS) in urban China, was first initiated in 1997, due to rising public cries towards increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible healthcare at the tertiary care hospitals in the urban cities. Thus, the Chinese central government began shifting focus from purely large general hospitals development to include primary community healthcare.
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Primary Healthcare in China: New growth area with RMB 850 bil (USD 124 bil) investment to be made by the Chinese government by 2011