Program to boost medical benefits

Editor's Note: This is the second in a series of special reports to mark achievements in various sectors during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC will be held from Monday to Thursday. Discussion of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) is high on the agenda of the meeting.

The government is testing measures to provide better services for people on low incomes

When doctors told Ding Yazhen that she had late-stage breast cancer late last year, the 43-year old resident of Xiushan county in Chongqing was devastated, and wondered whether to begin an expensive course of chemotherapy after having surgery.