Tongji Hospital Subordinated to Tongji University (hereinafter abbreviated as Tongji Hospital or the Hospital), as renamed from Ganquan Hospital Subordinated to Tiedao University Medical School, started its medical service in November 1991, and was ranked as a Class 3A comprehensive hospital in March 1995.

Tongji hospital is located in the northwest part of Shanghai covering a land area of over 4 hectares, with a building floor space of over 5,000 sq.meters. Tongji hospital has 17 ward areas with 580 beds (900 after the phase II expansion). Under the administration of the Hospital are 28 clinical departments or clinical laboratories, 11 technical departments, and a "remote consultation center". The hospital has a staff 1100 in number, including over 120 professors, associate professors, chief physicians or associate chief physicians. The Hospital is equipped with such advanced instruments and devices as MRI, spiral CT, DSA, ECT with PET function, linear accelerator, etc.

The superb equipment and qualified personnel has facilitated such characteristic departments as Department of Cardio-angiology, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Pediatric Hematology, Department of Psychiatry and Department of Imaging Medicine. The Hospital possesses such certified Master degree awarding stations as in internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, stomatology, imaging medicine, oncology, dermatology and venereology, and biomedical engineering, etc. The "Cardiovascular Disease Center", as formed from Department of Cardiology and Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, etc., is a ministry level medical center. The "laboratory of psycho-physiology" and the "laboratory of venereal medicine" are laboratories open to the railway system throughout the country.

The Hospital is currently undertaking nearly 100 research projects at various levels as of national foundation of natural sciences, Ministry of Health, and of Shanghai Municipality. Education for advanced medical personnel is also among the functions of the Hospital. Two national academic journal, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Chinese Medical Abstract in Surgery (English Version) published in the Hospital are exerting their nationwide influence on the development of medicine in this country. International activities of academic exchange are flourishing in the Hospital, which result in extensive relationship between the Hospital and dozens of overseas universities, such as those in USA, France, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Australia, etc., and in such districts as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Tongji Hospital Subordinated to Tongji University is one of the youngest, but the most rapidly developed and most vigorous Class comprehensive 3A hospitals in Shanghai. As a hospital subordinated to Tongji University School of Clinical Medicine, the Hospital is marching towards its modernized future.

Official Website: www.tongjihospital.com.cn