Table 3.

Basic situations of village doctors and contract service implementation in the four counties

County	When contract service implemented	Contract signing rate	Physician per 1000 capita	Pension per month for a village doctor	Social security
County A	Not yet	\	2.99	¥800 (US $131)	Yes
County B	12 months	13.30%	2.20	¥800 (US $131)	Yes
County C	12 months	50.00%	2.72	¥300 (US $49)	Yes
County D	8 months	84.97%	1.60	Not yet	Not yet

Physician per 1000 capita on country level was 2.04 in 2013 according to the data from the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of China http://www.stats.gov.cn/.