姜堰市地处泰州市东侧,总人口93万,农业人口78万,辖32个乡镇,679个行政村。农民年人均纯收入2880元。1997年以来,我市在总结前期合作医疗工作的基础上,根据自身实际,积极争取党委、政府的重视和支持,强化政府职责,广泛宣传发动,完善规章制度,健全运行机制,全面推行以大病合作为主要形式的农村合作医疗制度。截止1997年 Jiangyan City, located in the east of Taizhou City, with a total population of 930,000, agricultural population of 780,000, administer 32 townships, 679 administrative villages. Per capita net income of peasants 2880 yuan. Since 1997, on the basis of summing up the work of the former cooperative medical care, our city actively strives for the importance and support of the party committees and governments based on its own reality, strengthens the government’s responsibilities, extensively publicizes and mobilizes the rules and regulations, improves the operational mechanism, Cooperation as the main form of rural cooperative medical system. As of 1997