Jiahui Health CEO: thumbs up for China’s most open city

In the forty years of reform and opening up, foreign investment has become an important part of the Chinese economy. In 1989, foreign investment started to enter the Chinese medical service market and has developed at an increasing speed since 2014. Recently, foreign-invested medical institutes are meeting the different levels of health demands of more people. Now Shanghai has 25 foreign-invested medical institutes (including investments from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital, which went into operation last October, is the first tertiary general hospital in Shanghai to be foreign-invested.

Thumbs up for the open, innovative environment

As the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Jiahui Health, John Hsiang sees not only the modernized infrastructure brought by reform and opening up but also the amazing response of people with open minds. In 2014, before the construction of Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital, the project was at one point delayed due to sanitation and drainage systems not being in accord with domestic standards. The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning did not reject Jiahui’s proposal but communicated with multiple departments and investors to work over the proposal. Finally, it acknowledged that Jiahui’s layout of sanitation channels was a mature international measure that would boost efficiency with the rigorous world class standardization of medical management.