March 18, 2026 — This episode of China’s DeepSeek Moment webinar series from the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA) examines China’s accelerating push to digitize its healthcare system. China is increasingly leveraging technological tools to address long-standing structural challenges, including uneven access between urban and rural areas, overstretched hospitals, healthcare workforce shortages, mounting pressure from the aging population, and rise in chronic disease. Yet healthcare is a high-stakes domain where rapid tech adoption, including artificial intelligence (AI), raises questions about safety, governance, data integrity, and public trust. Lizzi C. Lee, CCA fellow on Chinese Economy, is joined by Winnie Yip, professor of the Practice of Global Public Health Policy and Economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and Ruby Wang, CCA honorary fellow on Global Public Health, to assess where health tech is delivering real value, where risks are accumulating, and what China’s “AI + healthcare” strategy may mean for China’s health-system reform and global health innovation. (46 min., 5 sec.)
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