On the morning of May 18, a signing ceremony for a framework agreement on medical care cooperation between PUMCH and Dongcheng District Government was held at the Lecture Hall of the hospital. Yan Hua, deputy mayor of Dongcheng District, and Wang Yipeng, vice president of PUMCH, signed the agreement on behalf of the two sides. Present at the ceremony were: Li Xianzhong, mayor of Dongcheng District, Zhao Yupei, president of PUMCH, and people representing the Dongcheng Office of National Health and Family Planning Commission, 6 medical institutions under the administration of Dongcheng as well as relevant departments of PUMCH.

PUMCH, as a large-sized public hospital, will play its leading role in the implementation of medical reform, and, by way of technical support, guidance and extended services, take as its long-term goal to help build disciplines and personnel in district hospitals; by means of expert team in medical treatment combination and comprehensive service guidance, it will help effectively boost the core competitiveness of district hospitals and the service capacity of combination members. Through the cooperation, efforts will be made to comprehensively boost the district 's public health services in such fields as medical treatment, women and children care, rehabilitation, chronic disease management, emergency handling, community hygiene and public hygiene, and improve the three-level local medical care network. Efforts are pledged to build a medical care system that is of reasonable layout, proper scale, optimized layers, clear division of responsibility, complete functions and high efficiency.

It can be predicted that PUMCH 's experience in building general practice teams will play an important role in the promotion of layered medical care and the education of "health keepers" for communities; as the society ages, the PUMCH Department of Geratology will, according to internationally advanced ideas, guide communities to carry out "home nursing" and directly benefit more residents in the district. PUMCH departments and combination members will probe into a mode of "co-management of chronic diseases" and provide new possibilities in boosting the health of community patients and promoting layered medical care.