On the morning of March 6, the inauguration ceremony of Jiangsu Province Hospital Xuzhou Branch was held successfully in Xuzhou Third People's Hospital, which marked that Xuzhou Third People's Hospital and Jiangsu Province Hospital had officially formed a strategic partnership. Li Yan, Deputy Mayor of Xuzhou Li Yan, Liu Zhenhua, Senior Vice President of Sanpower Group, and Wang Hong, President and Party Secretary of Jiangsu Province Hospital, attended the ceremony. Li Yan and Wang Hong inaugurated Jiangsu Province Hospital Xuzhou Branch.

Li Yan extended her congratulations on the initiation of Jiangsu Province Hospital Xuzhou Branch on behalf of Xuzhou municipal government, as well as gratitude to Jiangsu Province Hospital, Sanpower Group, and various sectors of society for their long-standing support for the medical cause of Xuzhou. She pointed out that the inauguration of the branch hospital will further enhance Xuzhou Third People's Hospital's level of medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, etc., and is of paramount significance in better protecting people's health and speeding up the building of the service centre of Huaihai economic zone.

Wang Hong, President of Jiangsu Province Hospital, pointed out that as the largest public hospital in Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Province Hospital has high quality resources like talents, technologies, equipment, branding and management. “As the core and backbone of socio-medical services, we have the responsibility and obligation to act as the practitioner of public hospital reform and encourage private capital to join in the reform process to provide capital support." Wang said, adding that "what we are doing now takes both economic and social benefits into account, with a view to ultimately resolving the ordinary people's difficulty and high cost in getting medical services."

Zhang Juyang, President of Xuzhou Third People's Hospital, said that the inauguration of Jiangsu Province Hospital Xuzhou Branch will link Xuzhou Third People's Hospital, Jiangsu Province Hospital and Sanpower Group closely together, and meanwhile inject new vitality into the development of Xuzhou Third People's Hospital. Jiangsu Province Hospital will provide comprehensive support to Xuzhou Third People's Hospital in aspects of technology, talents, management, branding, etc., and will assign managerial personnel to the hospital. In addition, a backbone healthcare team with professional qualifications and titles will be based in the hospital and participate in the business development and discipline construction of the hospital.

It is reported that the partners will jointly build an internationalised, modern and garden-style tertiary general hospital in the urban area of Xuzhou. Relying on Sanpower Group's social capital, Jiangsu Province Hospital's comprehensive technology management and branding support, the branch hospital will specially feature the domains of brain diseases, women and children care, and rehabilitation, so as to establish itself as a comprehensive grade A tertiary hospital that radiates Huaihai economic zone.