Jinan Medical Center: A Global Invitation from an International Medical New City

On the banks of the Yellow River in Jinan, Shandong Province, Jinan Medical Center, an international medical new city modeled after the world's top standards, is thriving.

From the "impressive achievement" of 170 daily treatments with the proton therapy system to the "international vibe" of Sino-Korean medical and technological exchanges, this industrial highland, benchmarked against the Texas Medical Center in the United States, is embracing the world with an open attitude. As a core practice carrier of the "Healthy China" strategy, Jinan Medical Center is also a crucial platform for gathering high-quality medical innovation resources and achieving win-win international cooperation, offering broad cooperation space and development opportunities for peers in the global healthcare field.

Gather Advantageous Resources to Build an Open Industrial Ecosystem

As an important concentration of medical resources in China, Jinan is home to more than half of Shandong's Grade A tertiary hospitals and specialized research institutes. Over 3,000 pharmaceutical enterprises such as Qilu Pharmaceutical, Freda, and Bloomage Biotech have rooted here, making biomedicine one of the 13 landmark industrial chains in the city... This unique industrial environment is not only a testbed for technological innovation but also a powerful magnet attracting global talents, capital, and cutting-edge technologies.

Located in western Jinan, Jinan Medical Center covers a total planned area of approximately 35 square kilometers. Since its establishment, it has adhered to the development strategy of "high-end, specialization, and internationalization," striving to build a globally influential agglomeration highland for the healthcare industry with integrated development of medical treatment, teaching, research, industry, and elderly care. Combining the frontier trends of the global big health industry and local industrial resource advantages, the medical center has identified four leading industrial directions: high-end medical services, high-end medical devices, next-generation biotechnology, and digital medicine. It has rationally set up four functional parks-- Medical Silicon Valley, Life Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Zone, Ecological Rehabilitation and Elderly Care Demonstration Zone, and Healthy Smart Life Practice Zone-- to promote integrated urban-industrial development.

Today, the medical center has become one of the first 14 member units of the China Big Health Industrial Park Community, been selected as a pilot for the construction of Shandong's green, low-carbon, and high-quality development pilot zone, and undertaken multiple tasks under the Jinan Metropolitan Area Development Plan (2024-2030), with its strategic status continuously elevated.

Currently, the core area of Medical Silicon Valley continues to gather high-end medical innovation elements, the Life Science and Technology Innovation Industrial Park effectively connects core industrial momentum, and people's livelihood and municipal supporting facilities provide full-cycle guarantees, constructing a mature industrial ecosystem featuring "medical treatment as the core, and coordinated development of pharmaceuticals, medical engineering, medical information, and elderly care."

Innovation-Driven Development to Create a New Chapter of Industrial Innovation

Focusing on eight high-incidence disease areas including tumors, stomatology, ophthalmology, and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, Jinan Medical Center is fully committed to building a cluster of high-end medical institutions with "comprehensive expertise and strong specialized departments," making high-quality medical resources accessible to all.

Here, proton beams lock onto cancer cells like "precision missiles," and the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine reshapes vitality through "strengthening the body resistance," jointly constructing an international-level platform for tumor treatment. As the "No. 1 Project" of Jinan International Medical Center, the Shandong Proton Center led by Academician Yu Jinming has completed nearly 2,000 treatments. As Shandong's first national regional medical center of traditional Chinese medicine, the Jinan Hospital of Guang'anmen Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (Medical Center Campus) is about to open, continuously enhancing regional traditional Chinese medicine services and the diagnosis and treatment level of difficult and severe diseases.

Here, dental implants achieve "millimeter-level precision," and medical aesthetics technology and services meet "international standards." The medical center has signed a cooperation agreement with South Korea's IBS to establish Shandong Bositongyuan Medical Technology Co., Ltd., focusing on international cooperation in fields such as oral medical aesthetics and AI healthcare; South Korea's Dream Plastic Surgery Hospital has signed a contract to settle in the medical center, introducing advanced South Korean medical aesthetics technology and teams to co-build the Sino-Korean Dream Medical Aesthetics Center and create an "International Medical Beauty Valley."

Here, the National Health Medical Big Data Center (North), a national-level platform, can be called the "medical brain." It gathers nearly 20 years of health data from 100 million people and more than 4,000 medical institutions in Shandong, developing ten major application scenarios such as AI model training and pharmacoeconomics, transforming cold data into "smart keys" to safeguard health.

Here, the Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center is the "scientific heart" of Shandong First Medical University, a "future laboratory" fueled by innovation. It is not only a beacon for medical research in China but also redefines medical research with world-class scientific research standards. The establishment of the Brain-Computer Interface Clinical and Transformation Center of Shandong First Medical University has effectively promoted the transformation of this cutting-edge technology from the laboratory to clinical application, attracting more scientific research institutions, medical institutions, and enterprises inside and outside the province for cross-border integration, and building an "industry-university-research-application" collaborative innovation community.

Here, the National Medical Research and Development Industry-Education Integration Innovation Platform, which is completing the final work of the zero-magnetic environment project, will take zero-magnetic medicine as a breakthrough to build a world-leading highland for medical-engineering integration innovation; Shandong Provincial Laboratory of Microecological Biomedicine has built a complete innovation chain from basic theoretical breakthroughs and key technological innovations to industrial achievement transformation...

Join Hands to Gather Synergy and Build an International Cooperation Platform

The "circle of friends" of Jinan International Medical Center is constantly expanding. It has established close healthcare industry cooperation relationships with South Korea and other countries in cutting-edge fields such as medical device R&D, tumor diagnosis and treatment, medical aesthetics technology, and oral health. A number of representative international cooperation projects and institutions have successively taken root. The Dedawei Platform innovates the digital dental diagnosis and treatment model with artificial intelligence; the Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Tumor Prevention and Treatment Base builds a tumor diagnosis, treatment, and scientific research cooperation platform around the entire chain of "scientific research - clinical practice - transformation"; the South Korean Big Health New Technology Experience Hall showcases 410 innovative products from 137 South Korean enterprises; the Smart Oral Diagnosis and Treatment Center and the South Korean Oral Industry Experience Center have become industry technical benchmarks. The consecutive Sino-Korean Healthcare Industry Cooperation Exchanges have made this place an important link for cross-border cooperation, with a number of internationally advanced technologies and products settling in, demonstrating strong global resource aggregation capacity.

From proton therapy to digital medicine, from special medical food to high-end devices, Jinan Medical Center is writing a new paradigm of international cooperation with "openness and innovation" as its brush. In the future, it will become a "gravity field" for international cutting-edge medical technologies and a "strong hub" for connecting global medical innovation resources, injecting new vitality into the development of the world's healthcare cause.

Vision Unites Consensus to Jointly Create a New Chapter of Win-Win Cooperation

From the continuous release of policy dividends to the continuous expansion of innovation platforms; from the accelerated landing of key projects to the in-depth development of international cooperation, the development of Jinan International Medical Center has long transcended the scope of building a single area. Instead, it has become an important starting point for Jinan to practice the "Healthy China" strategy and a key fulcrum to leverage emerging industries in the construction of a strong provincial capital.

With the solid landing of high-quality projects and practical initiatives, an open, innovative, and interconnected medical new city is issuing a sincere invitation to global partners with increasing attractiveness and carrying capacity. It looks forward to joining hands with peers in the healthcare field to explore medical frontiers and build a healthy future together.

(Li Yifan)