The Chinese Government will alleviate the financial burden on individuals for medical treatment to ensure that by the end of 2015 they pay no more than 30 percent of the total cost of medical treatment, Vice Minister of Health Zhang Mao said recently in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.

The government has invested an "unprecedented" 500 billion yuan ($75.8 billion) in health care since the new round of medical reforms were launched in April last year, particularly helping grassroots medical institutions, Zhang added.

China pledged last year to invest 850 billion yuan ($128.8 billion) in the health care system over three years.

The proportion of government funding in the nation's health system increased from 17 percent in 2006 to 27 percent in 2009 while that coming from the individual dropped from 52 percent to 38 percent in the same period, according to the vice minister.