The original hospital was Shijie Health Center, which was built in 1958. The new Shijie Hospital was put into use in April 2000. Dongguan Shijie Hospital is a modern comprehensive hospital integrating clinic, prevention, scientific research and teaching. Covering an area of10.9 million square meters and a building area of 28,000 square meters, it consists of four main buildings: outpatient building, inpatient building, medical technology building and logistics building. There are outpatient departments, internal medicine, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, hand surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, emergency department and operating room; Supply room, pharmacy department, radiology department, laboratory department, functional examination department, hyperbaric oxygen department and seven subordinate outpatient departments. This hospital has 200 beds. The hospital has developed rapidly in recent years, and its business volume is increasing at the rate of 10-30% every year. In 2000, there were 530,000 outpatient visits, 7,227 discharged patients, and large and medium-sized operations 1900 cases. The success rate of rescuing critically ill patients reached 84. 1%. It has American GE high-speed spiral CT, hyperbaric oxygen, GE-C arm X-ray machine, Japanese Fuji EG-450HR electronic gastroscope, EC-4 10WN electronic colonoscopy, hysteroscopy, Siemens Adam B-ultrasound, multifunctional imported color Doppler ultrasound, automatic Hitachi biochemical analyzer, blood cell analyzer, automatic bacterial culture analyzer, French TAEMA-VAPAL3 anesthesia machine, ICU multifunctional monitoring system of American space laboratory, etc.