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. 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.
With a history of less than three years, the China-Czech TCM Center in Hradec Kralove has received more than 20,000 patients, establishing a good reputation in the Czech Republic. This has made Dr. Frantisek Musil and his colleagues very happy.“We have more than 80 percent satisfied patients, which is a very high percentage, because the normal average percentage of satisfied patients is half and half, 50 percent. As I said, in our TCM center, the average percentage of satisfied patients is more than 80 percent, which means a very big success.”
The 21st Shanghai International Film Festival was in full swing in the second half of June. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of China’a reform and opening up, so how do those foreign film makers feel about this policy? With these questions, our reporter had an interview with Annabelle Sheehan, new CEO of the New Zealand Film Commission to find out the answers.
Since his days in school, Hata Norio harbored a wish to visit China. After graduating from college, he discovered a company that attended an industrial exhibition held in Beijing. Without hesitation Hata Norio joined this company with the hope to visit China one day. Never had he thought that he would live in China for more than 50 years and become the first person to be issued a Chinese green card, the People’s Republic of China’s Permanent Residence Certificate.
“When I came to Shanghai 30 years ago, the first impression was the large population. There were very few cars on the street and bicycles everywhere. There was only one underground tunnel in the city, and some shipyards could be seen on the Huangpu River...” Claude Maillot said sentimentally.
In an office with ship models on a windowsill, Jan Van der Borght, representative of Belgium's Antwerp Port Authority in China, told reporters about the story that he led to the exhibition of the lost Chinese ancient ship models in China.