To respond to the Healthy China strategy, promote the expansion, sinking, and balanced distribution of high-quality medical resources, and alleviate the hardship of cross-provincial medical treatment for local people, Xiamen Municipal Government and Fudan University pioneered the "city-university cooperation, high-level integration" homogeneous management model in August 2014, jointly establishing the Zhongshan Hospital（Xiamen）, Fudan University (hereinafter referred to as "Fudan Zhongshan Xiamen Hospital"). This initiative marked an innovative move to transplant high-quality medical resources across provinces and accelerate the improvement of regional medical standards. The hospital started trial operations in August 2017. It is a modern comprehensive tertiary first-class public hospital fully operated and homogeneously managed by Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University (referred to as "Fudan Zhongshan Hospital"). It is also a pilot hospital for establishing and improving the modern hospital management system in China, and was approved as the first national regional medical center construction unit among the first batch in the country in October 2020. Located on the bank of Wuyuan Bay in Huli District, Xiamen, Fujian Province, the hospital covers a total area of 71,200 square meters. The construction area of Phase I is approximately 175,000 square meters, and Phase II (Science and Education Building) is about 34,000 square meters. It has 800 approved beds, and currently operates 720 beds. The hospital always adheres to the leadership of Party building, strictly implements the president responsibility system under the leadership of the Party Committee, and effectively gives play to the Party Committee's leading role in "guiding the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, promoting reform, and ensuring implementation". It has further promoted comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, continuously strengthened political guidance, consolidated branch construction, promoted the deep integration of Party building and business, and achieved "dual improvement" in Party building and medical services. Disciplines develop in a coordinated manner. With the development characteristic of "strong specialties with comprehensive support", the hospital relies on the national key clinical specialties of Fudan Zhongshan Hospital, focusing on heart, blood vessel, liver, lung, kidney, and gastrointestinal diseases, and develops in a differentiated way from existing medical institutions in Xiamen. The hospital has opened 52 clinical departments, 17 famous doctor studios including those of Academician Fan Jia and Academician Ge Junbo, three technical platforms (comprehensive endoscopic surgery platform, comprehensive interventional surgery platform, and critical care platform), and two specialized platforms (digestive disease platform and pan-vascular disease platform). It provides multi-disciplinary team （MDT） diagnosis and treatment services, and has launched MDT services between Shanghai and Xiamen through remote video platforms, building a multi-disciplinary collaboration model to offer patients "one-stop" precise medical services. Medical services are high-quality and efficient. The hospital has 5 Fujian Provincial Key Clinical Specialties (Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, Medical Imaging, and Nephrology) and 1 Xiamen Municipal Key Clinical Specialty—Radiological Diagnosis. It is also the chairman unit of 4 professional quality control centers in Xiamen (Nephrology, Endocrinology, Outpatient, and Geriatrics) and the affiliated unit of Xiamen Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Center. Giving full play to the role of the national regional medical center in addressing weaknesses, strengthening strengths, and promoting improvement, the hospital has continuously introduced new technologies to fill regional medical gaps. By June 2025, it has introduced over 220 new clinical technologies and projects from Fudan Zhongshan Hospital, filling more than 80 technical gaps in relevant professional fields in Xiamen and even Fujian Province, and has been awarded 4 "Annual Top Ten Medical Innovation Technologies" in Xiamen. Focusing on the cutting-edge of medical technology, the hospital has successfully carried out high-precision technologies such as the first transapical mitral valve clipping surgery in China, minimally invasive single internal mammary artery-coronary artery bypass grafting, and left atrial appendage resection to solve three heart diseases at one stop. It has ranked first among comprehensive hospitals in Xiamen in the Fujian Provincial Patient Satisfaction Survey for six consecutive years. Medical facilities and equipment are advanced. The hospital is equipped with top-tier robots, angiography machines, one-stop hybrid operating rooms with combined sliding CT, and a number of advanced medical instruments in the industry. Among them, Class A and B large medical equipment include the 4th-generation Da Vinci Surgical System, PET-CT, medical linear accelerator Versa HD, United Imaging uRT-linac 506c, 320-slice dynamic volume CT, 3.0T and 1.5T medical magnetic resonance imagers, dual C-arm flat-panel DSA, large flat-panel DSA, and the first HIFU treatment room in southern Fujian, providing strong support for the hospital to carry out difficult surgeries and precise diagnosis and treatment. Talent introduction and cultivation are homogeneous between Shanghai and Xiamen. The hospital vigorously implements the "homogeneous talent training" strategy. The heads of all clinical and medical technology departments are concurrently held by the directors of corresponding disciplines in Fudan Zhongshan Hospital to ensure medical standards and technical capabilities. The heads of administrative functional departments in Fudan Zhongshan Hospital serve as the first responsible persons of corresponding functional departments in Xiamen Branch, ensuring the integrated and homogeneous management and development of the two hospitals. To maintain the original hospital management and medical standards, Fudan Zhongshan Hospital has long stationed over 120 senior experts and management backbones in Xiamen. All recruited medical staff are entrusted to Fudan Zhongshan Hospital for "full training", and other staff also need to receive training and assessment in Fudan Zhongshan Hospital for a certain period before returning to Xiamen. The hospital has established a standardized residency training system, transplanting the teaching and training faculty and capabilities of Fudan Zhongshan Hospital. In addition, it has made every effort to promote the construction of Fudan University Affiliated Hospital, becoming a teaching hospital of Fujian Medical University and being approved as a national postdoctoral research workstation. Currently, it has 1 national young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions to health, 2 Fujian provincial young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to health, and 110 person-times of municipal and above talent projects. There are approximately 1,270 employees (including resident experts from Fudan Zhongshan), among whom 131 have senior professional titles, 20 are master supervisors, and 10 are doctoral supervisors. Research and innovation achievements are fruitful. The hospital encourages employees to actively participate in scientific research and innovation, and takes multiple measures to improve the construction of research platforms. It has been approved as Fujian Provincial Clinical Research Center for Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Abdominal Tumors, three Xiamen Municipal Clinical Research Centers ("Comprehensive Treatment of Malignant Tumors" and "Imaging Medicine"), and three Xiamen Municipal Key Laboratories (Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Pan-Vascular Diseases, Clinical Translation of Imaging Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, and Biological Therapy). It took the lead in carrying out biological therapy research in Xiamen, promoting the whole-process precise diagnosis and treatment of tumors. By the end of 2024, the hospital had obtained more than 450 national, provincial, and municipal scientific research projects, including 7 National Natural Science Foundation projects. It has published over 650 papers, including more than 270 SCI papers, and obtained 145 authorized patents. In recent years, it has won many honors such as 2 first prizes and 1 third prize of Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 third prize of Fujian Medical Science and Technology Award, 1 second prize and 2 third prizes of Xiamen Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award. Digital intelligence empowers high-quality development. The hospital's informatization adheres to the principles of top-level design leadership and interconnection between Shanghai and Xiamen, focusing on the needs of homogeneous management and development of administrative and clinical businesses. It has built a unified basic data platform to consolidate the foundation of group management, and strive to create a smart hospital integrating "smart medical care, smart services, and smart management". Using new information technologies, it has built "four platforms and two centers", including the internet diagnosis and treatment platform, interconnection integration platform, 5G cloud imaging platform, AI imaging artificial intelligence platform, internet of things innovation research center, and data decision-making center. It comprehensively promotes the innovation of data assets and artificial intelligence applications, continuously upgrades telemedicine, and regularly carries out remote video outpatient services, remote ward rounds, and remote consultations, realizing seamless connection and data sharing in medical diagnosis and treatment between the two hospitals in Shanghai and Xiamen. In 2024, the hospital passed the national medical and health information interconnection standardization maturity level 5B assessment and became the chairman unit of the Internet of Things Special Committee of Xiamen Hospital Association. Active assumption of social responsibilities. Giving full play to the radiating and leading role of the national regional medical center, the hospital took the lead in establishing the "Shanghai-Fujian Heart and Great Vessel Alliance" with more than 20 hospitals in the southwest Fujian region, and carried out medical technology cooperation with multiple medical institutions such as Haicang District of Xiamen and the Second Hospital of Jinjiang City, effectively promoting the sinking and extension of high-quality medical resources. It has participated in counterpart assistance tasks such as aiding Ningxia for many times, efficiently responded to public health emergencies, guaranteed large-scale conferences and events such as the Strait Forum and Xiamen Marathon, and regularly organized medical teams to carry out free clinics, technical training, and health science popularization activities in communities, committed to improving the medical service capabilities of primary community hospitals and the health literacy of the public, demonstrating the responsibility of public hospitals. Continuous accumulation and frequent honors. The unique "Fudan Zhongshan Xiamen" model for the construction of national regional medical centers has driven the hospital's development from scratch and achieved leapfrog progress, which has been recognized by governments at all levels, all sectors of society, peers, and praised by the people. It has successively won many honors and titles, such as the 4th National Most Beautiful Hospital, Advanced Collective in Xiamen Healthy City Construction, 2024 Annual Power Promoting Industry Progress—Top Ten Medical Humanistic Hospitals, and 2024 Annual Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award for Health Care Management. There is always room for improvement, and inheritance shines like stars. In the future, Fudan Zhongshan Xiamen Hospital will always uphold the Zhongshan spirit of "Everything for the patients" from Fudan Zhongshan Hospital, advocate the core values of "rigor, truth-seeking, unity, dedication, innovation, and care", inherit the fine traditions of Fudan Zhongshan such as rigorous medical style, exquisite medical technology, and strict scientific management. It will continue to polish the shining brand of "Innovation and Care—Shanghai Hospital at Your Doorstep", strive to build a national regional medical center integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, and preventive health care, a diagnosis and treatment center for difficult and severe diseases in the southeast coast, and strive to be a model of cross-regional city-university cooperation and a benchmark for the construction of national regional medical centers, making unremitting efforts to build an internationally renowned and first-class modern innovative tertiary first-class general hospital in Asia!