Li, ex-WHO leader attribute healthy advances to reforms

China will continue its Healthy China efforts and further enhance cooperation with the United Nation's World Health Organization, Premier Li Keqiang said in a meeting in Beijing on Thursday with Margaret Chan, former director-general of the WHO.

Li said China has devoted enormous time and effort to implementing medical reforms, aiming to provide basic medical and health services to the general public.

He said the country has managed to establish a medical system covering 98 percent of the population and benefiting more than 1.3 billion people.