English news updates from Shanghai hospitals, prepared for international patients.
At the awards ceremony of the Second National Health Sector Youth Innovation Competition, jointly organized by the National Health Commission and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League in Beijing, the project "Cross-Scenario Transportable Magnetic Resonance Detection Array System," by the team of Zhang Jun, director of the research…
Read the full report →On August 17, Xinhua Hospital held its 2026 Chinese Physicians' Day celebration and the 9th “Lean Heritage, Master Clinicians” outstanding physician awards ceremony. Hospital President Cai Wei, speaking on behalf of the hospital's Party and administrative leadership, congratulated the honored physicians and extended holiday greetings, calling on all clinicians to…
Read the full report →The Shanghai Medical Workers' Union has released the results of its 2026 “Shanghai Medical Craftsman” selection, and Professor Du Peng — vice president of Xinhua Hospital, director of the Comprehensive Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and discipline leader in colorectal and anal surgery — has been named to the list.…
Read the full report →The Party Committee of Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine held a commendation meeting in the lecture hall of its science and education building, honoring outstanding Party members, outstanding Party affairs workers and advanced primary-level Party organizations. The meeting aimed to encourage Party organizations, cadres…
Read the full report →The cardiothoracic surgery team led by chief physician Liang Zhigang at Xinhua Hospital's Fengxian campus has successfully performed minimally invasive surgery for a patient with central-type lung cancer who had poor pulmonary function and faced high surgical risk. It is the first single-port thoracoscopic left upper lobectomy with bronchial sleeve…
Read the full report →Xinhua Hospital's Fengxian campus is about to mark its first anniversary. It recorded 2,253 outpatient and emergency visits on its opening day and has now served more than 960,000 patient visits, reshaping the healthcare map for residents of Shanghai's suburbs. The campus opened on June 28, 2025, ending Fengxian district's…
Read the full report →The urology team led by Cui Xingang at Xinhua Hospital has successfully completed China's first totally laparoscopic radical cystectomy combined with pelvic lymph node dissection and orthotopic ileal neobladder reconstruction performed with a domestically developed split-type surgical robot. Integrating radical tumor resection, lymph node dissection, urinary tract reconstruction and functional…
Read the full report →On April 6, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2026 Global Alumni Homecoming Day held under the theme “Gathering at the Source for 130 Years, Creating the Future Together,” the university announced the winners of its 2026 Presidential Award. Yao Zhirong, director of Xinhua Hospital's Skin Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center…
Read the full report →On the afternoon of January 6, 2026, Professor Cui Xingang of Xinhua Hospital's Department of Urology, working at the Fengxian campus, remotely controlled a surgical robot located at the Yangpu campus over a 5G network and successfully performed robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy for 64-year-old prostate cancer patient Mr. Pan —…
Read the full report →Chen Xinlin, president of Longhua Hospital, has laid out the hospital's high-quality development path “from the clinic and back to the clinic” as a national TCM inheritance and innovation center and a candidate institution for the National Medical Center. In January 2025, construction began on the second phase of Longhua…
Read the full report →The Shanghai Medical Workers' Union issued a circular on the establishment of 2026 model worker and craftsman innovation studios in Shanghai's health system, and Longhua Hospital's “Zhang Wei Model Worker and Craftsman Innovation Studio” has been selected. Professor Zhang Wei, who leads the studio, serves as vice chair of the…
Read the full report →On September 19, at the high-quality scientific innovation and translation conference of Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the hospital announced the official launch of its TCM Preparation Inheritance and Innovation Center. The center will become a TCM preparation hub integrating preparation production and compounding, research…
Read the full report →The 2026 “Shanghai Medical Craftsman” selection has been announced, and Professor Liu Linshuang of Longhua Hospital's Department of Oncology is on the list. With 37 years in clinical practice, she has excelled across clinical care, teaching and research, and is highly accomplished in TCM and integrated TCM-Western oncology. Building on…
Read the full report →As the sanfu, the hottest days of the year, approached, Longhua Hospital staged its 2026 summer health consultation under the theme “The Right Time for Treating Winter Diseases in Summer” in the lobby on the first floor of its outpatient building. Specialists from cardiology, TCM surgery, bone-setting (orthopedics and traumatology),…
Read the full report →At the 16th Shanghai Rehabilitation Medicine Science and Technology Awards ceremony, the project “Construction and Application of Clinical Technical Operation Standards and a Whole-Process Quality Control System for Acupotomy,” led by chief physician Hu Zhijun and associate chief physician Liu Dan of Longhua Hospital's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, won the…
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