This essay is an exploratory exercise that aims to outline the agenda-setting processes in thePeople’s Republic of China (PRC), specifically using the case of health policies. To this end, itbegins with a brief description of the Chinese health system from the Maoist period to thecurrent one, followed by a more in-depth analysis of the contemporary period, from 2002 –year of change of leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and consequent new Five-YearPlan – to the present day. The goal is to understand the evolution of the processes involved.The analysis is based on the Multiple Streams analytical model, advocated by John Kingdon,taking as an example the Chinese health care reforms. The main objective is to understandthe assumptions that have been guiding the definition of the Chinese political agenda and topoint out future trends based on the evolutionary framework resulting from this work.