Zhongshan Hospital is a major teaching hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health of China. It was founded in 1937 in commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer in the Chinese democratic revolution. Affiliated to the State Medical College of Shanghai, it was then the first large hospital run by the Chinese.

Through nearly 75years of development, Zhongshan Hospital now covers an area of 95,892 M2 and has 185,736 M2 of buildings. The hospital has 1,700 beds serving 75,000 inpatients and 2,765,000 outpatients and emergency in 2010. Among its 3,090 medical staffs are 370 professors and associate professors, 114 physicians, 1,205 nurses, 380 technicians, 1 member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The hospital has all medical divisions, except pediatrics, excelling in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, liver cancer, renal and pulmonary diseases, etc. It has been designated as the Shanghai Clinical Center for Cardiovascular Diseases and Liver Cancer. Having their head offices set up in the hospital, the Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, the Liver Cancer Institute of Fudan University, the Shanghai Institute of Radiology, the Shanghai Institute of Rehabilitation with Integrated western and Chinese Traditional Medicine, the Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Fudan University, the Institute of Vascular Surgery of Fudan University, the Institute of General Surgery of Fudan University, the Institute of Endoscopic research of Fudan University and the Nuclear Medicine Institute of Fudan University have become the major research centers of the hospital. The Organ Transplantation Center, Fudan University, is another feature of the hospital. Renal, liver and heart transplantations have already become routine practice. The Shanghai quality control centers for in-hospital infection, ultrasound, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, cardiology and general surgery are also attached to the hospital. The hospital is also renowned for its strength in abdominal surgery, orthopedics, interventional radiology, anaesthesia, ultrasound diagnosing and integrated treatment of western and traditional medicine. The hospital is undertaking annually some 100 major research projects supported by the Nation, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Municipal Government. Nearly 100 items have been awarded for distinguished achievements in research by the central or local government in recent years.