On January 14^th, Liang Wannian, director of the Department of Healthcare Reform of National Health and Family Planning Commission of PRC , was invited to our hospital to deliver a special report about public hospital reform. Combining with typical cases in the hospitals, He interpreted the directive promoting the comprehensive reform of public hospitals in cities from aspects like basic reform objectives, establishing new operating mechanism of public hospital, intensifying the monitoring and payment function of medical insurance, etc. The directive emphasizes three objectives: to abolish the profit-chasing mechanism of public hospital and implement government responsibility; to construct grading medical treatment pattern and a collaborative medical service system with a reasonable layout ; to establish modern hospital management system preliminarily, improve hospitalizing order and the ability of medical service system , and control the unreasonable growth of medical expense effectively. It emphasizes four guiding ideologies: tripartite sector linkage, regional linkage, upper-lower linkage and breakthrough on the current operating mechanism of public hospitals; there are also three focuses: implement the government responsibility on operating hospital, establish corporate governance structure of modern hospital, and establish a new operating mechanism of public hospital.