China's top public hospitals, at the prices Chinese patients pay.

After forty-plus years of rapid development, the technology and diagnostic standards of China's top hospitals sit firmly in the world's leading tier — while prices remain at developing-world levels. That combination is what this site documents, number by number.

Every price on this site comes from an official document — a Chinese government price catalog, or a hospital's published tariff. We link the source next to the number.

Typical total cost — heart bypass surgery (CABG), regular departments of top public hospitals

¥60,000–200,000 ≈ US$8,500–28,000

All-in: surgery, anesthesia, ICU, ward and medication. The government-set fee for the surgery itself is ¥4,680 per grafted vessel, published in the official catalog.

Compared with: Singapore (private, median actual total bill) — S$112,977 ≈ US$84,000.

Source: Guangxi Medical Service Price Catalog 2024 · Singapore MOH, SD742H · Last verified: 2026-09

Public hospitals only

State-run Grade 3A institutions with government-regulated prices.

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In regular departments, foreigners pay the listed local prices.

Inside a Chinese public hospital

Not a flagship built for foreigners — an ordinary Grade 3A public hospital in a regional capital, the kind this directory lists. This is what everyday infrastructure looks like after forty years of investment.

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