摘要：

Abstract:

【Purpose/significance】 Healthcare is one of the most fundamental needs of the whole people and an integral part of the

socio-economic development of a country. Due to the fact that there are numerous tasks and unexpected emergency events such as

COVID-19, the overall attention that the government can possess at a time is always limited, thus making how the government allo⁃

cates such limited attention become popularly discussed.【Method/process】 Based on the reports on the work of the government pub⁃

lished during 1978 to 2023, this paper localized a healthcare policy agenda codebook that fits well into China's condition through the

grounded theory, and analyzed the evolution of Chinese government's attention on healthcare using content analysis according to such

codebook.【Result/conclusion】 It was found that the intensity of Chinese government's attention on healthcare went through four devel⁃

oping phases - violently shaking, fluctuating, prioritizing, and climbing. The allocation of the attention regarding various healthcare

policies was quite uneven. The stability of Chinese government's attention on healthcare was found to be relatively high while the di⁃

versity also kept increasing. In addition, this research identified that the outbreak of public health emergencies could significantly

raise the intensity as well as the focus of the government's attention on healthcare.【Innovation/limitation】 This study innovatively ex⁃

panded the theoretical foundation, factual basis and methodological scope of current researches on healthcare policy analysis, and pro⁃

posed several suggestions for further development of Chinese healthcare policy system.