China-Japan Friendship Hospital

China-Japan Friendship Hospital (中日友好医院), founded in 1984 and directly administered by the National Health Commission, is one of Beijing's most nationally designated comprehensive hospitals. Built with Japanese government grant aid as China's first large-scale foreign grant-funded hospital and a lasting symbol of Sino-Japanese diplomatic cooperation, it maintains an International Department with dedicated English and Japanese services for patients from over 100 countries.

The hospital is the national home of respiratory medicine: it houses both the National Respiratory Medical Center and the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases under CAE Academician Wang Chen, whose team's landmark Lancet and NEJM publications on H7N9, severe COVID-19, and long-term COVID prognosis have shaped WHO and NIH clinical guidelines. During COVID-19, Wang Chen led China's initial Wuhan expert mission and invented the 'cabin shelter hospital' model that treated over 12,000 patients.

The hospital also ranks #1 nationally in pain medicine (Fudan 2022), top-10 in rheumatology for 12 consecutive years, and holds 19 national clinical key specialties. One of China's 12 National Integrated Chinese-Western Medicine Centers, it runs combined TCM-Western departments under CAS Academician Tong Xiaolin — whose diabetes and COVID-19 protocols are adopted in national guidelines — and operates the National Remote Medicine Center connecting 5,400+ partner hospitals nationwide.