How to develop medical tourism in China(四)

One is the high quality and low price of medical services. Many medical institutions of China hardware equipment is perfect, advanced medical technology, can provide a high level of medical care, and medical service price is lower than Europe and the United States and around the Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries, such as South Korea 10 000 yuan of medical plastic project, in China only 3 ~ 5 $000 to $000.2 it is rich and high quality tourism resources.My country is rich in tourism resources, including hot springs, forests, island has the potential to develop health care tourism.At the same time, our country tourism resort and nursing homes is numerous, such as qinhuangdao beidaihe, sanya, hainan, shandong Qingdao, part of the resort has become a medical tourism center.Three is long history and unique traditional Chinese medicine.In disease treatment efficacy of Chinese medicine is unique, in disease prevention, health rehabilitation has obvious advantages, acupuncture, gua sha, per cutem, qigong, tai chi and massage, massage, medicinal food has great medical tourism development potential.In recent years, the growing influence of TCM in overseas, made a special trip to China more and more foreign patients treated with traditional Chinese medicine.4 it is vast and fast-growing tourist market.Along with our country opening to the outside world deepen, foreign nationals in China.Tourist arrivals in China in 2013 to 1. 2.9 billion people, including 2 foreigners reached 629. 030000.In 2015, according to the world tourism organization predicted that China will become the world's largest inbound tourism receiving country, to become the world's first big tourism market, medical tourism customers size.Currently, the development of health service industry provides a good opportunity for the international medical tourism.Development of health service industry as a strategic move has been on the agenda, the state shall encourage social capital directly into scarce resources and meet the diverse needs of the service sector, social do deep institutional obstacle of the development of medical and health services are gradually break, private medical institutions and commercial medical insurance could usher in a new development opportunity, this for the development of international medical tourism has created the loose policy environment.

Many cities, with great enthusiasm for the development in China, especially the first-tier cities, with rich medical resources, have relatively high-end medical service facilities, in addition, the city has rich tourism resources. In China, some traditional Chinese medicine therapy is sought after by the masses of tourists. Chinese massage, acupuncture, per cutem attracted large crowds. Also, rich in tourism resources of high quality health care in China, the medical service quality is cheap. And China has a long history in culture, based on the theory related to the health keeping in good health, can be applied to medical tourism, such as books huangdi neijing. For traditional Chinese medicine, is also a new opportunity to the international communication, it can build base integrating medical treatment, health and tourism, to meet Chinese and foreign tourists feel the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, demand of Chinese medicine treatment, bringing the traditional Chinese medicine to the world. 

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