China’s Basic Medical Insurance Enrollment to Grow for Second Straight Year

Cointime update: China’s basic medical insurance enrollment reached 1.328 billion by September 2026, including 391 million employee-insured and 937 million resident-insured, Zhang Chenguang, deputy director of the National Healthcare Security Administration’s planning and finance department, said at a briefing on the medical insurance wallet 2.0. Enrollment exceeded full-year 2024 levels and by end-October matched full-year 2025, making a second consecutive year of growth certain.