China Health Economics Institute (CHEI), established by the authority of State Staff Committee in 1991, is a research institute at national level which is directly under the leadership of Ministry of Health (MOH).
* Missions
· To conduct policy research on health development and reform and provide policy recommendations for policy-makers;
· To conduct empirical and interventional health economic research, laying out the basis of the macro-economic policy and the micro-economic management in health care sector;
· To conduct researches with relevant ministries and professional organizations to promote national and international exchanges and communications;
· To coordinate and manage the China Network for Training and Research on Health Economics and Financing, conduct policy research, organize trainings of trainers on health economics and health management in universities and colleges, hold workshops on health management for provincial health managers and initiate health development and health policy consultancy.
* Major Research Outcomes
· Researches on the calculation and methodology of National Health Accounts;   
· Researches on the regional health development planning and rational allocation of health resources;
· Researches on health financing and organization in impoverished rural areas in China;
· Researches on nationwide rural health insurance scheme;
· Researches on how to strengthen community health service delivery;
· Evaluation of the reform on health care system for employees;
· Evaluations of the comprehensive benefits obtained by hospitals;
· Researches on health care systems in other countries;
· Calculations of the medical costs.