Introduction

The Eighth Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University is located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, within the central urban district of Futian, Shenzhen. As one of the affiliated hospitals of the prestigious Sun Yat-sen University, the hospital has attained National 3A Hospital Accreditation in 2021 and has progressively developed into an important base for medical service, education, and research in Shenzhen.

The hospital is composed of the headquarters and 31 community health service centers. With beautiful environment and comprehensive medical facilities, the hospital covers a construction area of 210,000 square meter and provides more than 1,200 parking spaces and over 1,300 beds. There are 50 clinical departments in the hospital, including two “Provincial Key Clinical Specialties”: orthopedics and cardiovascular medicine.

The hospital has implemented the “3+3+1” Strategy: establishing three major discipline clusters, namely the trauma-orthopedic disease, the cardiovascular-metabolic disease, and cancer-related disease; constructing three supporting platforms, namely Biological Laboratory of Hetao Cooperation Zone, Precision Medicine Research Center, and Clinical and Translational Medicine Research Center; and establishing a 5G+AI chronic disease management demonstration area, leveraging a network of 31 community health service centers.