A healthy attitude towards health check (7)

Huo Tao, a Beijing resident in her 30s, says she will actually look at the annual medical checks provided in a prospective employer’s remuneration package before deciding on the job.

But the importance of annual medical checks, whether self-financed or company-sponsored, is still very much limited to certain groups. For many of the less privileged, it is still bread-and-butter issues that take priority.

Liu Qi, 27, an engineer with the CITIC Groups in Xi’an, Shaanxi’s provincial capital, says the company is likely to skip medical checkups this year because of financial constraints.

In his hometown at Ankang city in Shaanxi, his parents don’t go for medical checkups.

"They think it unnecessary,” Liu says.