农村合作医疗是指由农村居民自愿建立的、通过农村集体经济组织和农民个人共同筹资、为农村居民提供低水平医疗服务的一种互助型医疗保险制度。农村合作医疗与城镇劳保、公费医疗共同构成我国医疗保险体系的三大 Rural cooperative medical service refers to a kind of mutual aid medical insurance system voluntarily established by rural residents and jointly financed by rural collective economic organizations and individual farmers to provide rural residents with low-level medical services. Rural cooperative medical care and urban labor insurance, public health care together constitute the three major medical insurance system in China