Zheng Qing and her friends founded a medical service center for foreign nationals in China in Shenzhen, offering services such as accompanying foreign patients for consultations. Recently, a client of Zheng Qing decided to come to traditional Chinese medicine due to neuralgia. He plans to go to Shaolin Temple to learn kung fu after the treatment is completed. Some patients also want to see traditional Chinese medicine in Beijing, asking Zheng Qing how to get to the hospital and asking them to help plan how to visit the Forbidden City and climb the Great Wall.
Gu Han works part-time as a companion doctor in Beijing. In the second half of 2025, she received a South African patient who tried traditional Chinese medicine treatment in South Africa due to femoral head necrosis, but acupuncture and moxibustion and physiotherapy are in different cities, and it takes 3 hours to drive. So the patient found the city where the traditional Chinese medicine factory he used was located - Shijiazhuang. With the help of Gu Han, he was admitted to an orthopedic traditional Chinese medicine hospital for two months of rehabilitation treatment.
Agnese from Italy suffers from Nutcracker Syndrome (also known as Left Renal Venous Compression Syndrome), which is a relatively rare disease. In January 2026, she underwent surgery at the International Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, where doctors customized a set of 3D printed vascular stents for her based on her body structure. She told the Economic Observer, "The only reason I came to China for treatment is to find an experienced surgeon with a large number of surgeries and a high success rate. This treatment plan is not available outside of China
There are not many restrictions on foreign patients seeking medical treatment in China. They can go to the international department of private or public hospitals, or to the general outpatient department of public hospitals.
