From a philanthropist's garden to one of the world's most advanced pulmonary centers.
In the early 1930s, Dr. Yan Fuqing — president of National Shanghai Medical College and a pioneer of modern Chinese medicine — led a campaign to establish a dedicated tuberculosis hospital for Shanghai.
Philanthropist Ye Ziheng answered the call, donating his private estate — the elegant Ye Family Garden, built just 15 years earlier — as the hospital's founding campus. On June 15, 1933, Chengzhong Hospital opened its doors as a specialized pulmonary care facility.
Over nine decades, that garden estate has grown into Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital: a 101,000-square-meter campus with 1,200 beds, 12 operating rooms, and a reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for thoracic surgery and pulmonary medicine.
Historic campus photograph
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Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital is a Grade 3A specialized teaching hospital — China's highest hospital classification — integrating clinical care, medical education, and scientific research.
Main campus in Yangpu District spanning 126,000 sqm of building area, plus two branch campuses. 12 clinical departments and 11 medical technology departments.
Five national clinical key specialties: Thoracic Surgery, Oncology, Respiratory Medicine, Occupational Disease, and Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine.
Affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine. Home to a Shanghai Key Laboratory, a Lung Transplant Engineering Research Center, and four clinical research centers.
Over 100 active research projects, including 27 supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China — ranking first nationally in thoracic surgery. 69 patents awarded.
Founded as Chengzhong Hospital on the donated Ye Family Garden estate. First president: Dr. Yan Fuqing.
Among the first hospitals in China to achieve Grade 3A certification — the nation's highest hospital classification.
Successfully performed Asia's first allogeneic lung transplant in an elderly patient.
Formally affiliated with Tongji University as a teaching hospital.
One of the world's highest-volume thoracic surgery centers, performing over 10,000 thoracic procedures annually with an international reputation for clinical excellence and innovation.