Doctors look to break public system shackles

Medical professionals are pushing for greater openness in the registration mechanism that can tie them to a single establishment for their entire career, as Yuan Quan reports for Xinhua China Features.

Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily is reporting on a number of key projects of national importance that showcase the country's great improvements in crucial fields, such as recent reforms aimed at improving living standards and creating a moderately prosperous society by 2020. Today's report focuses on changes to China's medical system.

Despite appeals by his superiors, gynecologist Kang Kai was determined to resign from the hospital in which he had worked for nearly 20 years.