Founded in 1946, Shenzhen People's Hospital was formerly Bao’an County Health Center. It was renamed as Bao’an County People's Hospital after the founding of People’s Republic of China in 1949. Since it was the only hospital with inpatient care in Shenzhen back then, local Cantonese residents called it “Liuyibu” (meaning “inpatient care unit” in Cantonese). Since then, this colloquial term has long been the alternate of the hospital until today. It was again renamed as Shenzhen People’s Hospital after the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in 1979. In 1994, the hospital was recognized as the first Grade 3A hospital in Shenzhen. In 1996, it was approved by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office to be the Second Hospital Affiliated to Jinan University. In 2005, it was endorsed further as the Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University. In 2018, with the endorsement from the municipal government, the hospital became the First Hospital Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology. Shenzhen People’s Hospital is now the largest modern hospital in the city, with advanced equipment, outstanding staff, state-of-the-art scientific research, top education and medical training, and it provides people with comprehensive medical services.Shenzhen People’s Hospital covers 152,756 square meters, with a floor area of 0.3 million square meters. The hospital has 2,500 beds and more than 5,000 employees, including 1,000 senior attending doctors and 1,200 intermediate-level attending doctors. Among the doctors, 61.5% have attained a Master’s degree, 24 are doctoral advisors for Ph.D. students, and 115 are advisors for graduate students. In 2019, there were 3.63 million outpatient visits and 113,000 inpatient visits.Shenzhen People’s Hospital has 16 provincial key clinical research disciplines. They are the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Dept., the Nephrology Dept., the Gastroenterology Dept., the Infectious Disease Dept., the Endocrinology Dept., the Chest Surgery Dept., the Oral Science Dept., the Anesthesiology Dept., the Gynecology Dept., the Obstetrics Dept., the Neonatal Dept. the Emergency Dept., the Pathology Dept., the Clinical Lab., the Clinical Nursing Dept. and the Radiology Dept. (including CT, Radiology, Ultrasonography, Intervention and Nuclear Medicine). There are also 2 Guangdong provincial engineering technology research centers, 14 Shenzhen municipal-level key medical departments with 7 excellent disciplines, 3 research institutes, 3 municipal level key laboratories, 5 Shenzhen municipal-level engineering technology research centers, and 1 national clinical trial center in the hospital.In 2003, the hospital introduced the first surgical robot ZEUS. In April 2004, ZEUS accomplished its first laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which was the first surgery of this kind done by a robot in mainland China. In 2013, the Minimally Invasive Diagnosis & Treatment Center was appraised to be one of the top Cryotherapy Training centers in Asia. In 2014, the world’s first single-hole thoracoscopic segmental resection was successfully done in the Chest Surgery Department. The procedure was then published in an international medical journal, representing that the hospital’s early lung cancer treatments were in line with the international standard. Furthermore, Shenzhen People’s Hospital was certified as one of the National Chest Pain Centers in September 2015. In October that year, it officially opened the Assisted Reproductive Care Center. The high-quality medical care of the hospital has attracted the attention from the media and a large number of patients not only from Shenzhen and its surrounding areas, but also from Hong Kong and Macao. Meanwhile, it was selected to be one of the first top-nine hospitals of Guangdong province in June 2018. In January 2017, it was identified as the Prenatal Diagnosis Special Technical Guidance Center of Guangdong Province, the Maternity Intensive Care Center o