Work meeting, presided over by the vice president of Shandong University, and dean of Cheeloo College of Medicine, on the joint construction of national regional medical center by the Committee and the Province was held at the Academic Exchange Center of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University on January 9. Sun Jiye, Vice Governor of Shandong Provincial People's Government, and Fan Liming, President of Shandong University, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Li Dachuan, Deputy Director of the Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, delivered a video speech. In addition, Hou Junping, secretary of the party committee of Qilu Hospital was present at the meeting, while its President Chen Yuguo did a report to the joint efforts.



Construction of a national regional medical center is an important measure to act out important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and anchor Shandong Province's "comprehensive pioneering" and "three leading", pointed out by Sun Jiye in his speech. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government put a new premium on the construction of the Center and gave full support. Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, as the lead and main construction unit of the national regional medical center jointly built by the committee and the province, facilitated the development in all rounds and yielded certain results in strict accordance with the "seven first-class" construction standards, leading and stimulating the development of surrounding areas by the national regional medical center. Meanwhile, Qilu Hospital, as the "bellwether" of the province's public hospitals, should list the establishment of the center as a compulsory and essential task, shoulder the responsibility of creation, build a top-notched emergency complex, further exert the leading role, and contribute new breakthroughs in better integrating and serving the overall economic and social development, indicated Sun. He also asked that departments at all levels in Shandong Province must implement the joint construction agreement, and roll out necessary support policies to aid the establishment of the national regional medical center.



The province highly prizes the joint efforts of building the national center in cooperation with the committee, supports Qilu Hospital to lead the construction, and has made remarkable achievements in implementing the agreement, coordinating the mechanism, leading the country, addressed Li Dachuan. The Medical Administration Bureau of the National Health Commission, according to Li, will conscientiously work out the joint construction agreement, reinforce supports for Qilu Hospital cooperating with party committees and governments at all levels in Shandong Province, thus to speed up and increase efficiency of the construction, boost the expansion of high-quality medical resources and regional balanced distribution in Shandong, and better meet the growing health needs.




Fan Liming expressed heartfelt thanks to Party committees and governments at all levels for their concern and support to Shandong University and Qilu Hospital. The school has been highly valuing the development of Qilu Hospital, and will list the construction of national regional medical centers into the overall development plan, according to Fan. She also requested that the hospital should adhere to the "four concentrations", anchor the "seven first-class" targets centering on major strategic needs of the country and Shandong, focus on strengthening system innovation, technological innovation, model innovation, and management innovation, and strive to build a socialist modern hospital to make new and greater contributions to building a healthy China and Shandong.

Chen Yuguo delivered a work report on "focusing on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical illnesses, and accelerating the construction of national regional medical center", introducing construction background of the center, support policies and achievements of the joint construction by the committee and the province, and progress of the pilot construction of Qilu Hospital and keys tasks of he next step. The hospital will spare no effort to promote the construction of national regional medical center, strive to build a national medical center, live up to the national mission, Shandong's entrustment, and people's expectations, and endeavor to create a humanized, functional, and intelligent socialist modern hospital model, thus to give tribute to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with excellent performance, according to Chen.



Heads of the General Office of the Provincial Government, the Provincial Party Committee Editorial Office, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Education, the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Health Commission, the Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau, Jinan, Lixia District and the Central District People's Government and relevant departments attended the meeting and delivered speeches. Participants fully affirmed achievements made by Qilu Hospital in the construction of the national regional medical center, and expressed that they would provide support to aid platform construction, project funding, talent introduction, expansion of the organization, pension insurance, and price reform. Hospital leadership, heads of functional and clinical departments, representatives of experts and scholars also attended the meeting.

Before the meeting, Sun Jiye and his entourage visited the construction site of the emergency comprehensive building project----the core project of the national regional medical center jointly built by the committee and the province, accompanied by Fan Liming, heads of relevant provincial and municipal departments, and managers of the school and hospital.
Report has it that on September 19, 2019, the National Health Commission and Shandong Provincial People's Government signed the "Cooperation Agreement on the Joint Construction of National Regional Medical Center" in Beijing. Qilu Hospital of Shandong University became one of the first batch of leading and main units in charge of the national regional medical center jointly built by the provincial committee and the province. The National Health Commission, Party committees and governments at all levels in the province, and Shandong University focused on the joint construction, valued key tasks of reform and development, systematic deployment, comprehensive policies, precise efforts, and overall plans to help Qilu Hospital build a national regional medical center in an all-round way and yield positive results. Qilu Hospital will strive to achieve extraordinary, leapfrog, and high-quality development, speed up the construction of a national regional medical center that represents the national medical level, radiates Shandong and surrounding areas, and effectively meets the medical needs of the masses, thus to contribute its strength to implement strategies of Healthy China and Shandong.

By Ji Haoyi, Chen Teng