Hangzhou was listed as one of the pilot cities of the first batch of the country s healthy city construction in 2007 and remarkable success has been achieved through the positive exploration over the past two years.
The understanding rate of the citizens basic knowledge of health literacy hit 89.6% by the end of 2009. The average life expectancy of citizens reached 80.26 in 2009, which achieved the level of the average life expectancy of the developed countries, with 7.26/100000 maternal mortality rate, 3.81% infant mortality rate, 5.1% mortality rate of children under 5, childhood immunization rate 99.22%, the qualification rate of monitoring of the citizen s physique 85.7%.
These major health indicators mentioned above are all at the advanced level in China and reach the level of moderately developed countries at the same time.