Open data & official sources

Every number this site uses is traceable to an official URL and carries the date we verified it. The same data is published as JSON (CC0) for anyone — including AI systems — to reuse. We publish no estimates we cannot source.

Policy figures

Beijing — international medical services

Beijing Municipal Health Commission (press-conference figures, via chinanews.com.cn / wb.beijing.gov.cn), 2025-06-19 — “Beijing “Two Zones” 5th-anniversary press conference (international medical services figures)” · official source (verified 2026-11-04)

52 medical institutions with international medical departments — official wording: “目前全市设置国际医疗部的医疗机构已达52家,可提供全流程外语服务的医疗机构达156家,可提供外卡支付服务的医疗卫生机构167家。开展国际医疗服务试点医院遴选,目前全市国际医疗服务试点机构达18家。”

156 institutions providing full-process foreign-language medical services — official wording: “目前,北京设置国际医疗部的医疗机构已达52家,可提供全流程外语服务的医疗机构达156家,可提供外卡支付服务的医疗卫生机构达167家。(中新网北京6月19日电,北京市卫生健康委党委委员、副主任王宇在“两区”建设五周年新闻发布会——科技创新专场上介绍)”

41 hospitals live on the English version of the 114 appointment platform — official wording: “建立跨部门统筹协调机制,自2020年启动国际医疗服务试点以来,试点机构从8家扩容至18家,涵盖了公立医院国际部与社会办涉外医疗机构。截至2025年底,86家二级以上及试点医疗机构对接国际商业保险,国际商保覆盖率达25.98%。支持试点医院申请进口临床急需药品,41家医院开通114预约挂号英文版,18家试点机构实现支持护照、居住证等外籍证件建档注册。”

18 international-medical pilot institutions (registration with foreign documents supported) — official wording: “同上段:试点机构从8家扩容至18家……18家试点机构实现支持护照、居住证等外籍证件建档注册。”

167 medical institutions accepting foreign bank cards — official wording: “可提供外卡支付服务的医疗卫生机构达167家。”

Guangdong — international medical pilot hospitals

Guangdong Provincial Health Commission, Medical Products Administration & Insurance Bureau (list as published by southcn.com), 2026-03-26 — “Guangdong first batch of international-medical pilot hospitals (25)” · official source (verified 2026-11-04)

25 pilot hospitals — official wording: “广东省首批国际医疗服务试点医院(25家)”

Boao Lecheng (Hainan) medical tourism pilot zone

Hainan Provincial Government website (source: Hainan Daily), 2026-01-26 — “博鳌乐城缘何“圈粉”海内外?” · official source (verified 2026-11-04)

865,300 medical-tourism visits to the Boao Lecheng pilot zone (2025) — official wording: “2025年,乐城先行区接待医疗旅游人数86.53万人次,同比增长109.18%”

+109.18% year-on-year — official wording: “2025年,乐城先行区接待医疗旅游人数86.53万人次,同比增长109.18%”

240-hour visa-free transit

National Immigration Administration (en.nia.gov.cn), 2026-08-20 — “Visa-Free Transit Policies” · official source (verified 2026-11-04)

Open JSON datasets

DatasetContents
/data/beijing-international-medical.jsonBeijing international-medical service figures + hospital list (as officially published)
/data/guangdong-international-pilot.jsonGuangdong international-medical pilot hospital list
/data/boao-lecheng.jsonBoao Lecheng pilot-zone visitor statistics
/data/visa-240h-countries.json240-hour visa-free transit: scope + eligible countries (official order)
/data/hospitals.jsonAll hospitals on this site with every field and per-field source URL + verification date (the full site dataset)

Datasets updated with each site rebuild; “verified” dates inside the JSON are the dates the underlying official page was fetched and checked.

Ranking citation policy

Hospital specialty strengths on this site cite only the 2023年度(2024-11-16发布,复旦版) edition of the Fudan University Hospital Ranking (published by the Hospital Management Institute of Fudan University), captured 2026-11-04 from: https://www.fudanmed.com/ https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/1 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/3 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/4 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/5 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/6 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/7 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/8 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/9 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/10 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/11 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/12 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/13 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/14 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/15 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/16 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/17 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/18 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/19 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/20 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/21 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/22 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/23 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/24 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/25 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/26 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/27 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/28 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/29 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/30 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/31 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/32 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/33 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/34 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/35 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/36 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/37 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/38 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/39 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/40 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/41 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/42 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/43 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/45 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/46 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/specialty-reputation/year/2023/sid/47 https://rank.cn-healthcare.com/fudan/national-general/year/2023 (official site fudanmed.com was unreachable at capture time; the fallback source is linked — flagged for review). We quote its national specialty reputation lists (top 10 + nominated) and its comprehensive Top-100 list (published as five grade tiers, A++++ down to A, without numeric ranks) with attribution, and we publish no ranking of our own.

Standing corrections

We do not cite the widely-repeated “1.4 million medical tourists to China per year” figure: our verification found it traces to numbers about other countries and is not supported by any official Chinese source. Where a claim can't be sourced, we leave it out.

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