11 specialties in the national top 10, including ENT, critical care, neurology and nephrology
Hospitals
International medical service pilot hospitals
China's provincial health authorities name international medical service pilot hospitals. These hospitals can set their own prices and accept self-paying patients and patients with international insurance. This page lists the 25 pilot hospitals we currently cover.
Being on this list does not mean a hospital works with us. Hospitals that work with us and pay us are marked separately in the list we send you.
8 specialties in the national top 10, including haematology, nephrology and gastroenterology
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Cardiac surgery and cardiology in the national top 10
Respiratory medicine ranked first nationally
Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
中山大学肿瘤防治中心
Oncology ranked second nationally; thoracic surgery in the top 10
Ophthalmology ranked first nationally
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Source: Guangdong Provincial Health Commission et al., first batch of international medical service pilot hospitals, 26 March 2026 · [1][2]
Order: Fudan Hospital Management Institute, China Hospital Rankings 2023 (published 16 November 2024). The top 100 hospitals are graded A++++ (highest) to A, 20 per grade; hospitals within a grade are not ranked against each other. Hospitals without a grade are not in the national top 100. [1][2]
Stem cell transplant for thalassemia in children: published results
These hospitals have published results from paediatric thalassemia transplants. We list the sources only and do not rank them; whether a transplant suits a child is for the hospital doctors to assess.
- Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University; Shenzhen Children’s Hospital (not on the pilot list)
Hematology, 2022: fresh cord blood transplantation from HLA-matched siblings, 68 children - Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center and others (multicentre)
World Journal of Pediatrics, 2018: haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for β-thalassemia major in China