Founded in 1975, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital is the leading institution in Shenzhen’s TCM sector. Guided by high-quality Party building, the hospital advances medical care, education, research and management in a coordinated manner. It has established a synergistic new pattern featuring the Futian and Guangming campuses as its “two wings,” supported by the First Outpatient Department (TCM Speciality Clinic), the Acupuncture and Tuina Centre (TCM International Clinic), and the Centre for Scientific Research and Education (a high-level platform for research and education). The hospital operates the Shenzhen Guoyi Zhichuang TCM Talent Training Centre and the Shenzhen TCM Preparation Centre. It is among the first group of national Grade III Class A TCM hospitals, the first affiliated hospital (non-direct) and the Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. It hosts a national postdoctoral research workstation, a national standardised residency training base, and a national practical skills test centre for the Physician Qualification Examination (TCM category). It also houses Guangdong and Shenzhen postdoctoral innovation and practice bases, a Guangdong joint postgraduate training demonstration base, and Guangdong and Shenzhen TCM specialist nurse training bases. Approved as the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area TCM Clinical Inheritance and Innovation Research Centre and the Shenzhen TCM Clinical Medical Research Centre, the hospital plays a central role in regional TCM advancement.
Key Specialities, Building a Regional High Ground
Designated a national key TCM hospital under the TCM Inheritance and Innovation Project and a National Regional TCM Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Centre, the hospital boasts 6 national key specialities, 5 provincial high-level key specialities, 24 provincial key specialities and 21 municipal key specialities. It is dedicated to building an international medical service system integrating TCM diagnosis and treatment, health management, health preservation and rehabilitation. With more than 1,700 beds, the hospital is equipped with cutting-edge medical devices including a medical linear accelerator, PET-CT, 3.0T MRI, large-bore CT, DSA, digital integrated operating theatres and hyperbaric oxygen chambers, ensuring precise and efficient patient care.
Distinguished Experts, Driving Innovation
The hospital is home to 100 municipal- and provincial-level renowned TCM doctors. Through Shenzhen’s “Three-Name” Programme—an initiative to attract renowned doctors, hospitals and medical teams—it has flexibly engaged 27 high-level expert teams, including Academician Zhang Boli, Academician Liu Liang and National Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine Shi Qi. It hosts 4 Academician Workstations and 8 National Master of TCM Studios, continuously injecting frontier momentum into disciplinary development.
Digital Enablement, Leading Quality Benchmarks
The hospital has been selected as a Guangdong high-level hospital under key construction, a pilot unit for modern hospital management systems in Guangdong, and a demonstration hospital for public hospital reform and high-quality development in Guangdong. It has achieved the highest grade A+ for seven consecutive years in the national performance assessment of tertiary public TCM hospitals. It has passed the Level-5B Healthcare Information Interoperability Standardisation Maturity assessment and is the first TCM hospital in the nation to achieve a Level-6 Electronic Medical Record system rating, safeguarding medical quality and safety through intelligent and refined management.
Invigorating Through Science and Education, Forging a Talent Cradle
Pursuing a strategy of invigorating the hospital through science and education, the hospital hosts a Grade III laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine—the Clinical Cellular and Molecular Biology Laboratory—along with a national drug clinical trial institution, a national medical device clinical trial institution, and a clinical pharmacist training base of the China Association of Chinese Medicine. It also houses the Shenzhen Workstation of the State Key Laboratory of TCM Dampness Syndrome (co-built by provincial and ministerial authorities), the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Livelihood Key Laboratory—Acupuncture Modern Application Research Laboratory, the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of TCM Liver Disease, and the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of TCM Preparation Research, together with three Shenzhen medical innovation platform construction projects. The hospital currently has nearly 300 research programmes underway, has led one National Science and Technology Major Project during both the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plan periods, and has been granted 60 projects by the National Natural Science Foundation of China in the past five years. It has won more than 30 science and technology progress awards at the national, provincial and municipal levels. With 40 doctoral supervisors, 136 master supervisors and 40 clinical teaching and research sections, the hospital has established a multi-level teaching system covering doctoral, master’s and undergraduate programmes, providing solid talent support for the continued vitality of TCM.
Upholding Integrity and Innovation, Caring for the Community
Guided by the service philosophy of “Love in Our Hearts, Care in Our Service” and the medical ethics of “Great Medical Sincerity, Healing the World,” the hospital has been honoured as a National Model TCM Hospital, a Guangdong Model TCM Hospital, a National Demonstration Unit for TCM Cultural Construction in TCM Hospitals, a National Advanced Unit for Health Culture, a National Advanced Collective in the TCM System’s Excellence Initiative, a National Model Workers’ Home, a recipient of the Guangdong May Day Labour Certificate, and a Guangdong Advanced Collective. It has repeatedly ranked among the top in Guangdong provincial hospital satisfaction and medical ethics assessments, and is praised by the media as a hospital citizens can trust, recognised for “excellent medical ethics and professional conduct, high medical quality and reasonable medical costs.”
Looking Ahead, Contributing Shenzhen Wisdom
Looking ahead, the hospital is striving to establish a National Clinical Research Centre for Traditional Chinese Medicine, a State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a National Regional TCM Medical Centre. It aims to become a modern, international, intelligent, high-level research hospital featuring a “seven-in-one” integrated development model encompassing medical care, education, research, prevention, health preservation, rehabilitation and transformation, serving as a Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area TCM Medical Centre. In doing so, it will contribute the “Shenzhen Solution” and “Shenzhen Wisdom” to building Shenzhen into a world-class city for TCM inheritance and innovation and to the national pilot zone for TCM inheritance and innovation development.
