Intl center for regenerative medicine opens in Boao

Regenerative medicine is expected to produce a market volume of more than $400 billion by 2020 worldwide.

The hospital now has 82 staff members and 11 specially invited foreign doctors. It has established cooperative partnerships with a number of domestic and international institutes, including the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Mingda Biotech Co Ltd, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, the 10th People's Hospital of Tongji University and Oda Group.

A demonstration project launched in 2013, Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone has been granted by the State nine special preferential policies, such as special permission to import medical technology, medical equipment and medicine, and cutting-edge technological research on stem cells.