Certain areas in China get greenlight to establish foreign-owned hospitals

China plans to allow wholly-owned foreign hospitals in Beijing, Shanghai and seven other cities or regions, the Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday.

Foreign entities will be allowed to set up such hospitals in Beijing; Tianjin; Shanghai; Nanjing, Jiangsu province; Fuzhou, Fujian province; Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong province; and Hainan province, the ministry said in a statement released on its official website.

The hospitals should not specialize in traditional Chinese medicine, it specified.