Private medical care gets boost

Beijing, Wenzhou and several other cities are competing to lure private, including foreign, capital into their healthcare regimes. The Ministry of Health has set a target that, by 2015, private hospitals should be managing 20 percent of China's bed and inpatient and outpatient volume, which is an increase from 11 percent of beds and around 8 percent of inpatient and outpatient activities now. Zhu Huiqing / for China Daily