A document released after an agenda-setting meeting held by China's ruling party has vowed to implement a "health-first strategy" to further reform the medical and healthcare systems.

The resolution of the Communist Party of China Central Committee's third plenum, which aims to deepen reform and advance modernization, said China will do more to increase the availability of quality medical resources and see that such resources are channeled toward the community level and more evenly distributed among regions.

"We will deepen the reform of public hospitals to see that they better serve the public interest, establish mechanisms whereby medical expenses are primarily based on medical services, improve the remuneration system, and set up a mechanism for making dynamic staffing adjustments," the resolution said.

The document said China will guide and better regulate the development of private hospitals and introduce new approaches to supervising medical and healthcare services.

China will also better support the development of innovative drugs and medical equipment and promote the preservation and innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine.