Renowned human rights defender Mr. Gao Fei mails Government Information Disclosure Applications No. 2026—002 and No. 2026—003 to the Ministry of Finance regarding free medical care for serious illnesses under the Life Equality Project

On April 27, 2026, this outlet learned that Mr. Gao Fei, a renowned human rights defender in mainland China, mailed Government Information Disclosure Applications No. 2026—002 and No. 2026—003 to the Ministry of Finance on April 27, 2026, regarding free medical care for serious illnesses under the Life Equality Project. The full texts of the two information disclosure applications are as follows:

Government Information Disclosure Application—Application for budget and final-account materials related to medical security for major and serious illnesses, medical assistance, and the bottom-line guarantee of life security

To:

Pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Government Information Disclosure, the applicant hereby submits the following application for government information disclosure to your authority in accordance with the law:

I. Government information requested to be disclosed

The applicant requests disclosure of the following government information that your authority has produced or obtained and retained in the course of performing its duties, including fiscal budget management, fiscal expenditure arrangements, final-account management, and performance oversight, relating to medical security for major and serious illnesses, medical assistance, and arrangements to ensure the bottom line of life security:

1/ Budget, final-account, and project-arrangement materials for the past five years

1. The budgets, adjusted budgets, executed amounts, and final-account amounts for the past five years for projects related to medical security for major and serious illnesses, medical assistance, assistance for major illnesses as a safety net, and assistance for people falling into or returning to poverty due to illness.

2. The sources of funds, project names, corresponding budget items, expenditure-calculation criteria, and project descriptions for the above-mentioned projects.

3. If the relevant funds are arranged separately through government subsidies for basic medical insurance, serious-illness insurance, medical assistance, special assistance, or other means, please disclose the data and explanations for each part separately.

4. If the relevant projects underwent significant adjustments, mergers, divisions, or changes in statistical criteria in different years, please disclose the basis for and explanatory materials or document catalogs concerning those changes.

2/ Performance targets, performance evaluations, and special analysis materials

1. The performance targets, performance self-assessment reports, and fiscal evaluation opinions for projects related to protection against major and serious illnesses and medical assistance over the past five years.

2. Fiscal special analyses, performance analyses, or situation reports concerning the medical burdens of patients with major and serious illnesses, the effectiveness of assistance, gaps in institutional coverage, and the risk of falling into or returning to poverty due to illness.

3. If your authority has produced special reports, research materials, or assessment reports concerning the “bottom line of life security” or fiscal arrangements to provide a safety net for major illnesses, please disclose them in accordance with the law.

4. If no complete report exists, please disclose searchable information such as the catalog of relevant materials, document names, dates of creation, and document numbers.

3/ Materials concerning fiscal priorities and the basis for institutional safety-net arrangements

1. Research, calculations, and explanatory materials concerning whether the risk of medical expenditure for patients with major and serious illnesses should be included among key fiscal protection matters.

2. Analyses, assessments, or policy explanations concerning whether existing arrangements for medical assistance, serious-illness insurance, fiscal subsidies, and others are sufficient to cover the high medical costs of major and serious illnesses.

3. If your authority has conducted research, comparisons, calculations, or demonstrations concerning “free medical care for major and serious illnesses,” “medical security with a high proportion covered by the safety net,” or “fiscal arrangements for the bottom line of life security,” please disclose the relevant materials.

4. If the relevant matters have not been established as special projects, please disclose whether budget feasibility studies, affordability analyses, or explanations of alternative arrangements have been produced.

4/ Comparative basic materials concerning other medical-expenditure projects

1. The budgets, final accounts, and project descriptions for expenditure projects related to “medical care for administrative and public institutions” and “medical subsidies for civil servants” during the same period.

2. If projects for protection against major and serious illnesses and the above-mentioned special medical-benefit projects use different expenditure-calculation criteria or different management methods, please disclose the explanations of those criteria separately.

3. If your authority has produced comparative, consolidated, or analytical materials concerning differences in fiscal arrangements for medical security among different groups, please disclose them as well.

5/ Alternative disclosure methods where information is incomplete

1. If your authority does not retain the complete text but does retain information such as catalogs, titles, document numbers, dates of creation, names of forms, or project lists, please provide it first in accordance with the law.

2. If some information was produced by another authority but obtained and retained by your authority in the course of performing its duties, please disclose it in accordance with the law or explain how it was obtained.

3. If some information is not held by this authority, please inform the applicant of the name of the specific authority or responsible authority that holds it.

II. Format of the requested information

The applicant requests that your authority give priority to providing the information in the following ways:

1. Send electronic text to the applicant's email address:

2. If it cannot be provided electronically, please provide paper photocopies in accordance with the law;

3. For content that can be processed separately, please first disclose the portions that can be made public;

4. For information where no complete text exists but searchable information such as catalogs, project names, and explanations of statistical criteria exists, please provide it first in accordance with the law.

III. Explanation of the purpose of the application

The applicant submits this application for government information disclosure for the following purposes:

1. To understand the specific expenditure structure of national and local government finances for protection against major and serious illnesses, medical assistance, and safety-net arrangements for the bottom line of life security;

2. To examine whether existing fiscal arrangements have established institutional support sufficient to cover the high medical burdens of major illnesses;

3. To understand the budgetary scale, implementation, performance targets, and institutional gaps of the relevant projects;

4. To conduct public-finance research and citizen oversight in accordance with the law.

This application concerns specific fiscal projects and project descriptions. The matters are clear and specific and can be searched. The applicant respectfully requests that your authority issue a response promptly in accordance with the law.

Respectfully submitted

Yours sincerely!

Applicant: ________

Date of application: ________ year ____ month ____ day

Government Information Disclosure Application—Application for explanations of expenditure projects for medical care for administrative and public institutions, medical subsidies for civil servants, and other special medical benefits

To:

Pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Government Information Disclosure, the applicant hereby submits the following application for government information disclosure to your authority in accordance with the law:

I. Government information requested to be disclosed

The applicant requests disclosure of the following government information that your authority has produced or obtained and retained in the course of performing its duties, including fiscal budget management, expenditure classification management, project management, and fiscal oversight, relating to medical care for administrative and public institutions, medical subsidies for civil servants, and other special medical-benefit expenditures:

1/ Budgets, final accounts, and project descriptions for the past five years

1. The budgeted, executed, and final-account amounts over the past five years for “medical care for administrative and public institutions,” “medical subsidies for civil servants,” and projects related to medical benefits, medical care, and supplementary medical support for specific groups.

2. The project descriptions, budget-item descriptions, functional classifications, and economic-classification explanations for the above-mentioned expenditure projects in fiscal budgets and final accounts.

3. If the relevant expenditures are presented under consolidated criteria, please disclose the internal breakdown criteria, statistical methods, and explanations of the project components.

4. If projects were changed, combined, divided, or their statistical criteria adjusted during the past five years, please disclose the relevant basis or explanatory materials.

2/ Expenditure-calculation criteria, classification standards, and management rules

1. The classification standards and applicable boundaries between “medical care for administrative and public institutions,” “medical subsidies for civil servants,” government subsidies for residents' medical insurance, medical assistance, and serious-illness insurance.

2. Institutional documents, explanations of statistical criteria, work guidelines, or internal rules that established the above expenditure criteria, classification rules, and project boundaries.

3. If medical care for specific groups, special subsidies, or supplementary protection projects exist, please disclose their classification bases and fund-management rules.

4. If no such projects exist, please state this clearly.

3/ Sources of funds, payment methods, and scope of beneficiaries

1. The sources of funds, methods of fund allocation, disbursement rules, and payment channels for the above-mentioned projects.

2. The scope of applicable beneficiaries, methods for determining benefit recipients, and management rules.

3. The division of responsibilities and coordination rules established among fiscal departments, medical-insurance departments, administrative agencies, and employers concerning the relevant projects.

4. If local matching funds, employer matching funds, or pooled-fund matching arrangements exist, please disclose explanations of each separately.

4/ Performance, audit, and evaluation materials

1. The performance targets, performance self-assessments, and fiscal evaluation opinions corresponding to the above-mentioned expenditure projects over the past five years.

2. Analyses, audits, inspections, or oversight materials concerning the level of protection, payment pressures, institutional necessity, and differential arrangements of the above-mentioned projects.

3. If special materials exist concerning the review, adjustment, coordination, or standardized management of the above-mentioned projects, please disclose them in accordance with the law.

5/ Comparative basic information

1. The budgets, final accounts, and project descriptions for residents' basic medical-insurance subsidies, serious-illness insurance, medical assistance, and other projects during the same period.

2. If your authority has produced analyses, compilations, research, or explanatory materials concerning differences in fiscal arrangements for medical security among people of different statuses, please disclose them as well.

3. If no complete comparative materials exist, please disclose basic data that can be used for comparison, the corresponding project names, and explanations of the statistical criteria.

II. Format of the requested information

The applicant requests that your authority give priority to providing the information in the following ways:

1. Send electronic text to the applicant's email address:

2. If it cannot be provided electronically, please provide paper photocopies in accordance with the law;

3. For content that can be processed separately, please first disclose the portions that can be made public;

4. For information where no complete text exists but searchable information such as catalogs, titles, document numbers, and project lists exists, please provide it first in accordance with the law.

III. Explanation of the purpose of the application

The applicant submits this application for government information disclosure for the following purposes:

1. To examine whether medical-expenditure projects related to specific identity groups have received continuous, separately itemized, or specially classified fiscal support;

2. To understand the differences in classification, funding, and expenditure structure between these projects and medical-security projects for ordinary residents;

3. To understand the institutional boundaries, grounds for reasonableness, and methods of fiscal management of the relevant projects;

4. To conduct public-finance research and citizen oversight in accordance with the law.

This application concerns specific fiscal expenditure projects and project descriptions. The matters are clear and specific and can be searched. The applicant respectfully requests that your authority issue a response promptly in accordance with the law.

Respectfully submitted

Yours sincerely!

Applicant: ________

Date of application: ________ year ____ month ____ day