The “Special Action Plan for Promoting Healthy Consumption” jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce and 12 other departments was released on April 9, 2025.
Chinese authorities released an action plan to boost health-related consumption on April 9, 2025. The plan was formulated by the country’s commerce ministry and 11 other government departments.
On April 7, 2025, Wang Hongwu (left), a family doctor at the Qianyuan Town Central Health Center in Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province and a famous grassroots Chinese medicine doctor in Zhejiang Province, guided mothers to provide infant and toddler traditional Chinese medicine massage and massage care in Lianxing Central Village Sports and Leisure Park. (Photo source: Xinhua News Agency)
【Knowledge Points】
In recent years, residents’ health awareness has been significantly enhanced, and healthy consumption has huge potential, showing the characteristics of rapid growth in market size, continuous innovation in business models, and continuous optimization of consumption structure. In order to cultivate and develop new quality productivity in the field of healthy consumption, improve the quality of supply of healthy goods and services, and better meet the people’s needs for a better life, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Health Commission and 12 other departments have studied and formulated the “Special Action Plan for Promoting Healthy Consumption”. The plan proposes 10 key tasks in improving the level of healthy diet consumption, optimizing the supply of special food markets, enriching fitness and sports consumption scenarios, vigorously developing the sports tourism industry, enhancing the service capabilities of the silver hair market, strengthening the diversified development of the health industry, strengthening the health promotion function of pharmacies, organizing health consumption promotion activities, and promoting health concepts and knowledge.
Among them, we will clearly crack down on illegal addition of food and carry out random checks on the effectiveness of organic food certification. Improve the pre-review and post-evaluation mechanism for health foods. Increase efforts to crack down on price violations in health food, “one old and one young” and other fields. Support local governments to build sports parks, fitness trails, national fitness centers, social football fields and other venue facilities. Deeply implement actions such as “sports events entering scenic spots, blocks, and business districts”, “traveling with events”, and “outdoor sports vitality landscapes”. Support the elderly’s family’s aging-friendly transformation and develop products and supplies for the elderly. Accelerate the construction of rehabilitation hospitals, nursing homes, and palliative care institutions, and support medical and health institutions to carry out medical and nursing services. Guide retail pharmacies to expand their functions such as health promotion, nutritional care and other functions.
【Important Speech】
Establish and improve a long-term mechanism to expand residents’ consumption, so that residents can consume with stable income, no worries, and have a good sense of gain and willingness to consume.
We must establish and improve a long-term mechanism for expanding residents’ consumption, so that residents can consume with a stable income, dare to consume without worries, and are willing to consume due to the excellent consumption environment and strong sense of gain.
——On January 31, 2023, Xi Jinping’s important speech during the second collective study session of the 20th Central Political Bureau
People’s health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national strength. Put the protection of people’s health in a strategic position of priority development and improve people’s health promotion policies.
People’s health is a key indicator of a prosperous nation and a strong country. We must give strategic priority to ensuring the people’s health and improve policies on promoting public health.
——October 16, 2022, Xi Jinping’s report at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
【Related Words】
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Sports Travel
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