Hospital & medical-care guide for international patients in China
Verified, source-linked information on 104 hospitals across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen: which have international departments, what languages they serve, which insurers they bill directly, and how the visa, registration and payment systems work. Every fact links to its official source with the date it was verified — we publish nothing we cannot trace.
Beijing 北京
30 hospitals · 45 specialty guides
China's capital concentrates the country's densest cluster of top-tier hospitals, including the unions of Peki…
Shanghai 上海
30 hospitals · 44 specialty guides
Shanghai pairs the hospital systems of Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tongji University w…
Guangzhou 广州
19 hospitals · 38 specialty guides
Guangzhou anchors South China's medical system — the Sun Yat-sen University system, Southern Medical Universit…
Shenzhen 深圳
25 hospitals · 6 specialty guides
Shenzhen's hospital system is the youngest of the four but growing fastest, anchored by the University of Hong…
Guides
Seeing a doctor in China
Registration (guahao), first visit, identity documents, medical records and payment — step by step, with official sources.
Insurance & payment
Direct billing vs. pay-and-claim, how international departments handle foreign insurers, and what treatment actually costs.
Visa-free transit (240 hours / 57 countries)
China's 10-day visa-free transit policy: eligible nationalities, entry ports and the official rules.
Open data & sources
Policy numbers (international-medical pilot programmes, Boao Lecheng, visa-free entry) as downloadable JSON, each with its official source URL.
How this site is different
- Every claim is sourced. Each hospital field carries the official URL it came from and the date we verified it. See the source register.
- No invented rankings. Where we say a hospital is strong in a specialty, we quote the 2023年度（2024-11-16发布，复旦版） Fudan University Hospital Ranking by name — a published academic ranking — or an official government list. We rank nothing ourselves.
- No services sold. No booking agency, no referral commissions, no advertising from hospitals. Information only.
- Machine-friendly. Structured data (schema.org), a full llms.txt guide, and open JSON datasets, so search engines and AI assistants can cite us accurately.
Coverage
| City | Hospitals | With international-department page | Direct-billing insurers stated | Specialty pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing | 30 | 24 | 6 | 45 |
| Shanghai | 30 | 13 | 6 | 44 |
| Guangzhou | 19 | 9 | 4 | 38 |
| Shenzhen | 25 | 13 | 7 | 6 |
Coverage snapshot as of 2026-11-04. 133 city×specialty pages in total. Hospital selection criteria are documented on each city page and on the methodology page.
Last reviewed / data verified: . All facts on this page link to their official sources.