Yuanqi Giant Panda partners with West China Hospital to build inbound medical travel: letting the world see China healthcare

A market that is opening up

Over the past two years, inbound medical tourism in China has made the leap from «scattered individual cases» to a «scaled track»: according to the 2025 Annual Report on Cross-Border Medical Services issued by the National Health Commission, in 2025 designated hospitals nationwide with cross-border medical service capabilities received about 1.28 million international patients, with the number of patients from Europe and the US nearly doubling year on year. At the same time, China's unilateral visa-free policy has expanded to 50 countries, and the 240-hour transit visa-free policy covers 57 countries, making «go-anytime» medical travel possible.

Why West China Hospital

With four Sichuan University of study, West China Hospital ranks firmly among the top three nationwide in overall strength and is the largest comprehensive single-site hospital in western China. Its dentistry Medicine ranks first nationwide, and the price of high-ticket items such as dental implants is about 50% to 70% of comparable items in Japan and South Korea; its plastic surgery, thoracic surgery, urology, anesthesiology and other departments are also among the nation's best. For overseas patients, «top-three nationwide technology + significantly lower prices than Japan and South Korea + shorter waiting times» creates genuine appeal.

Why Yuanqi Giant Panda

No matter how good the healthcare is, patients cannot reach it if they cannot «see» it. Yuanqi Giant Panda's multilingual foreign-language tour guide IP matrix covers major overseas platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and X. Licensed foreign-language tour guides living and working in Chengdu, as genuine creators, continuously produce content on department Popular Science, objective comparisons among China, Japan and South Korea, patient stories and life experiences in Chengdu (all medical-related content is professionally reviewed by the hospital). Supported by multilingual customer service, medical record translation, visa assistance, airport pickup and accompaniment, and cultural tourism arrangements during recovery, we have connected the entire chain from «watching a video» to «completing a course of diagnosis and treatment».

Referencing Caissa × United Family, but going further

This model is often compared with the combination of Caissa Travel × United Family Healthcare. The difference is that Caissa relies on its existing membership base for traffic, while we proactively acquire customers and create incremental growth through our self-built overseas social media matrix; in terms of content strategy, we insist on «letting the data speak» through objective comparisons of medical tourism among China, Japan and South Korea, rather than simply placing advertisements. Measured by real cases: dental treatment that costs about three times as much in the US, and elective surgery that requires about a three-month wait in Singapore, can be arranged and completed within days in China — real Value for money stories like these are becoming the most persuasive «calling card for China healthcare».

The bottom line: compliance first

All content focuses on health Popular Science and does not constitute medical advertising; patient informed consent and privacy protection run through the entire process; we provide coordination and accompaniment services and do not offer any medical advice or diagnosis and treatment services, and medical quality and treatment decisions always remain the responsibility of the hospital. This restraint is the precondition for us to go far.

Final words

The combination of world-class healthcare and global communication is not just about the business of one hospital or one company, but also about the image of «China healthcare» in the minds of patients worldwide. We hope that, looking back ten years from now, the step we take today will be one of the starting points for the inbound medical tourism industry in China to move toward standardization and branding.