China’s Health Commission Takes Steps to Strengthen Mental Health Services

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) has released its roadmap to narrow the gap in mental health services between 2025 and 2027. The initiative aims to address increasingly prevalent mental health challenges. Especially in children and teenagers

China to introduce national mental health hotline Establish regional mental health centers throughout the country. and expanding the critical medical specialty of mental health care, according to a statement from the NHC released Tuesday.

The announcement comes after growing public concern about mental health issues. It was notified of several violent incidents in 2024. These incidents included multiple stabbings. And two cases of plowing into the crowd…

China’s National Health Commission By 2025, NHC aims to ensure that at least one hospital in every province and city has outpatient mental health and sleep disorder services. It is estimated that 54 million people in China suffer from depression and 41 million deal with anxiety disorders. As the World Health Organization estimates, it happens.

A recent report by Xinhua quoted Xie Bin, Communist Party head of the Shanghai Mental Health Centre, as saying. It was revealed that approximately 2% of teenagers suffer from depression in China.

Experts warn that growing economic pressures are exacerbating mental health challenges. This is due to the economic slowdown and decreased employment stability. The number of people is getting smaller and smaller. that benefited from China’s once booming economic growth And mental health tensions continue…