新型农村合作医疗(以下简称新农合)制度是由政府组织、引导,农民自愿参加,个人、集体和政府多方筹资,以大病统筹为主的农民医疗互助共济制度。建立新农合制度,是新形势下党中央、国务院为推进社会主义新农村建设,提高农民健康保障水平,解决农民看病难、看病贵问题的重大举措。 The new rural cooperative medical care system (hereinafter referred to as the new rural cooperative medical system) is organized and guided by the government, and farmers voluntarily participate in it. Individuals, collectives, and governments raise funds from various sources, and the farmers’ mutual aid and mutual aid system based on large-scale disease co-ordination is the mainstay. The establishment of a new rural cooperative medical system is a major measure for the Party Central Committee and the State Council to promote the building of a new socialist countryside, raise the level of peasants’ health protection, and resolve the problems of farmers’ access to doctors and expensive medical services.