Zhong Nanshan writes in People's Daily, discussing the most direct way to improve life expectancy

Building a Healthy China is not simply about competing with numbers, but about shifting from a “disease-centered” approach to a “people-centered” approach. This is reflected in chronic disease management: not waiting until illness worsens to treat, but prioritizing early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment, making early screening and intervention routine. Managing COPD, hypertension, and diabetes should extend into communities, allowing people to access standardized health services right at their doorsteps. All of this depends on technological innovation, which must truly become the core driving force leading the health industry. Technological innovation should serve the people wholeheartedly. In the development of health initiatives, the core value of innovation lies in identifying key clinical and public health needs, using technological breakthroughs to solve problems and address shortcomings, and integrating innovative results into the entire health protection process. This is the key to making technological innovation the leading force. A Healthy China is not a distant goal but a life within everyone’s reach. Manage health, prevent disease, protect life—when healthy lifestyles become a societal consensus and conscious action, we can truly achieve longer, healthier, and higher-quality lives. (People’s Daily)