Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital (Tongji University Affiliated Tenth People's Hospital), founded in 1910, became the first batch of "grade three Class-A" general hospital of the National Ministry of Health in 1993, It owns 2,031 staff members, including more than 200 professors, It boasts 2 key disciplines of China,4 key disciplines of Shanghai and has jointly built the "Key Laboratory for Arrhythmia Molecular Genetics" of the National Ministry of Education.

Digestive medicine and Nursing department has gain national key specialty construction unit .It includes more than 30 masteral and doctoral degree programs with 99 tutors and 27 tutors respectively.

It has many medical talents and outstanding academic leaders involved in the programs at state and Shanghai City-level like National Hundred-thousand Talents Program, Shanghai Shuguang Plan, Shanghai Rising Star Program and others.

In the past three years, the hospital has won 72 such state-level items as Project 863 and National Natural Science Foundation and 14 awards including Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Awards and Shanghai Medical and Technological Progress Awards. Since 1996, the hospital has received 7 consecutive times the title of "Shanghai Civilized Unit" once won the national service "Top 100 Hospitals" of national quality service and has came out at the top of the list for successive years of community satisfaction survey in Shanghai.