Healthcare advances seen nationwide

Better medical facilities, staff bringing about moderately prosperous society

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Zhang Jinping, president of a township health center in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, says basic health services offered to locals have improved over the past few years.

In September last year, Zhang and her colleagues began working at a new three-story building more than three times bigger than the previous one-story health center. With new medical equipment being added and new staff being recruited, doctors and nurses at the center in Chahantuohai, Tacheng, can provide better services, Zhang said.