This sample shows the 20-page structure for Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai. It does not name doctors, quote a price, or score the hospital. Those fields stay blank until a public source and a check date exist.
Official register
✓Found
Grade 3A on the National Health Commission register.
Hospital rating
–Not scored
ChinaClarity does not publish star ratings.
Lead doctors
?Not named here
This sample does not invent physician names or licence numbers.
Getting there
✓2 airports
PVG and SHA, direct from major hubs, 30–60 min.
Patients from abroad
?Served
Visa invitation letters and English coordinators.
Published prices
?Not quoted here
Ask for an all-in figure in writing. This sample does not quote one.
Check-ups after treatment
?Ask
This sample does not set a number of weeks.
Insurance cover
?Not checked here
Ask your insurer. This sample does not name partner companies.
Help for visitors
?Ask the desk
Ask what they will put in writing about language, letters, and booking.
What stands out
✓Grade 3A on the NHC register, affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University. page 6
?Whether a CAR-T programme is open to a foreign patient is a question for the hospital, in writing. This sample does not assert it. page 7
?Ask which invitation letter they issue, and which parts of the stay are in English. page 5
?Ask for the report, the imaging files, and who clears you to fly. page 14
Worth asking about before you pay
?Ask for the all-in price in writing. This sample does not quote one. page 13
?Ask what medication you may carry in and take home, and what letter they will write. page 4
?Ask which parts of the stay are in English, and whether you need an interpreter. page 9
?Ask whether a deposit is due before a written price, and which cards they take. page 13
Ruijin Hospital is in central Shanghai, at 197 Ruijin 2nd Road, Huangpu. This sample does not quote a taxi time or a flight duration. Ask the hospital which airport they tell patients to use, and check the journey on the day.12
Flights — check the airline, not this sample
London HeathrowAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
FrankfurtAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
SingaporeAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
SydneyAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
Los AngelesAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
New York JFKAsk the airline. This sample does not quote a duration or a carrier.
HongqiaoSome regional flights use SHA. Confirm which airport the hospital expects.
No timetable is published here. PVG is the usual long-haul airport. SHA is closer to the centre. Confirm both with the airline.
Pudong airportPVG
Distance and taxi time are not quoted here. Check them on the day.
The hospital197 Ruijin 2nd Road, Huangpu
Ask the desk which entrance to use.
Hongqiao airportSHA
This sample does not publish a drive time or a 24-hour phone number. Ask the international desk for both.
Hotels sit within a few kilometres of the hospital. This sample does not quote a nightly rate. Visa category depends on your passport: confirm it with the Chinese embassy before you travel. Medication rules are strict; ask before you pack.78
Time zone
UTC+8, no DST
All of mainland China keeps one time zone, year round.
Money
Chinese yuan (CNY)
Ask which cards, transfers, and local apps the desk accepts. This sample does not quote a card fee.
Visa
Ask your visa centre
This sample does not tell you which visa to use. Ask the hospital what letter they will issue, then confirm it with the Chinese visa centre for your passport.
Language
Ask before you fly
Do not assume the ward works in English. Ask which parts of the stay are in English, and whether you need an interpreter.
Embassy advice
Register your trip
Carry your passport and insurance details, and follow your own embassy's China travel advice.
Emergencies
Call 120
120 is the public ambulance number in mainland China. Ask the hospital for its own out-of-hours contact.
Places to stay — not a recommendation
Not named hereThis sample does not measure hotel distances or name partner hotels.
Ask the deskAsk which entrance is closest to a hotel they will actually put in writing.
Book yourselfChinaClarity does not book rooms and does not take a hotel commission.
Earlier hotel names and kilometre figures were not measured for this sample and have been removed.
Medication: this sample does not list what you may carry. Ask the hospital and your own customs advice before you pack, and declare what you bring.
This sample does not set a length of stay. Ask the hospital, in writing, how many days they expect you in hospital and how many days they expect you to stay in Shanghai afterwards.
Published / confirmedNot published: ask the hospitalBack in your home country
Before you go
Pre-consultation, deposit and invitation letter
Ask what they need by email, whether a deposit is due before a written price, and what invitation letter they will actually issue.
Ask: full price and named doctor in writing
Travel day
Fly to Shanghai (PVG or SHA)
This sample does not quote a flight time or a taxi time. Check both on the day.
Admission
Pre-treatment checks
Ask which tests they will run and how many days they expect you to stay. This sample does not set a length of stay.
Leaving hospital
What you take with you
Ask for the report, the imaging files, the medication list, and what follow-up they will still answer.
Before you fly
Who clears you to fly
Ask for a fitness-to-fly letter if you need one, and ask what medication you may carry home.
Ask: fitness-to-fly letter and medication export
Back home
Aftercare with your own doctors
Share the translated records with your haematologist/oncologist; monitor for CAR-T-related side effects locally.
Is the hospital properly registered, and who owns it?
The short answer
Ruijin Hospital (上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院) is a public Grade 3A hospital in Shanghai, affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. This sample does not rank the university and does not invent bed counts.20
The hospital
197 Ruijin 2nd Road, Huangpu
Registered name: 上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院. Grade 3A, the top tier of China's three-tier system.
Who operates it
Public university hospital
Operated under Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and the Shanghai health system.
International centre
Ask, do not assume
Whether an international desk will see you, and in which language, has to be confirmed in writing. This sample does not assert it.
Foreign-patient acceptance
Not checked here
A paid report cites the hospital page and the date. This sample does not.
What quality marks does it have, and what is it set up for?
The short answer
The grade on the public record is Grade 3A. This sample does not claim JCI accreditation or an NMPA registration. A paid report cites those pages or says they were not found.2930
Hospital tier
✓Grade 3A
Top tier of China's three-tier hospital classification.
JCI accreditation
?Not checked here
Do not treat this sample as proof of accreditation.
CAR-T programme
✓NMPA-registered
Registered clinical trial/treatment centre for autologous CAR-T therapies.
International service awards
?Couldn't check
No public list to verify additional awards against; only the marks above are claimed.
Patient volume
Not stated
This sample does not invent an admission count.
Who pays
Self-pay + partners
Foreign patients self-pay; selected international insurers settled directly.
Other locations
Shanghai campuses
Ruijin operates additional Shanghai campuses; this report covers the Ruijin 2nd Road site.
This sample does not name a doctor. Earlier drafts used invented names and licence numbers. Those have been removed. A paid report names a physician only after the public register entry is checked, and it says so with a date.
Who would see you is a question for the hospital, in writing, before you pay a deposit. ChinaClarity will not fill this page with a name we have not checked.
Invented physician names and placeholder licence numbers were removed from this sample and from the local seed. A paid report names a doctor only with a public register source and a check date.
There is no patient rating on this page. ChinaClarity does not score hospitals, and this sample does not invent reviews.
A live report can quote a public page when the sentence is sourced and dated. It does not turn those sentences into stars, and it does not count a review corpus it has not read.
Invented review scores and star charts were removed. This sample does not rate the hospital.
What matters in practice is whether the hospital will put the price, the doctor, and the paperwork in writing. This page does not pretend patients said so.
Ask for an English report and for the imaging files you can take home. Ask who books the visit if you do not have a Chinese mobile number, and which cards or payment apps the cashier accepts.
Invented quotations and review-count charts were removed.
The useful complaints, when a source exists, are about language, a deposit before a written price, and whether the files come home with you. This sample does not invent those complaints.
Put these in the email before you pay: the all-in price, the name of the doctor, the language of the report, the imaging-file format, and what follow-up they will still answer after you fly home.
Invented complaint quotations and complaint-count charts were removed.
A live comparison lists public-record facts side by side. It does not score Ruijin, Xinhua, or Renji.
Xinhua Hospital and Renji Hospital are real Shanghai hospitals. This sample used to give them star scores and review counts. Those scores were not checked and have been removed. A paid report may say what each hospital publishes about an international desk, with a link and a date, and it will not rank them.
Star scores that used to sit beside Shanghai hospital names were removed. Those hospitals are not ranked here.
Aftercare stays with your doctors at home. Ask the hospital what they will still answer after you leave, and ask for the report and imaging files in a form those doctors can read. This sample does not promise a three-month remote clinic.1652
Check-ups
?Ask before you fly
Ask who clears you to fly, and what follow-up they will still answer. This sample does not set a number of weeks.
Plan for patients abroad
?Limited
No standing international aftercare programme in the DEMO dataset; agree everything in writing.
Your insurer
?Confirm before you go
Ask your own insurer about mainland China. This sample does not name partner companies.
Records handover
?Ask before you pay
Ask for the report and the imaging files in a form your doctors at home can read. This sample does not promise a bilingual pack.
When can I fly home? Ask your doctor.
There is no published hospital figure for when you may fly. Ask your own doctor and the treating team. This sample does not quote a flight duration.
Part 3 · Your trip, the cost and coming homePage 14 of 20
Ask, before you pay, who you call if something goes wrong in hospital and who you call after you fly home. This sample does not publish a 24-hour number. Put the escalation path in writing.
Ask who you contact on the ward, and whether an intensive-care pathway is part of the written plan. This sample does not describe one.
After you fly home, your own doctor is the first call. Ask the hospital what they will still answer, and do not assume a remote clinic of any set length.
Ask for the out-of-hours number before you travel. This sample does not publish one, and it does not claim that other Shanghai hospitals will accept you.
Keep written quotes, consent forms, and receipts. Ask, before you pay, how a complaint is handled.
Out of hours
Ask for the number
This sample does not publish a 24-hour line.
Emergency
Call 120
120 is the public ambulance number in mainland China. English on the call is not guaranteed.
Embassy
Register your stay
Your embassy can assist with documents, not medical decisions.
Part 3 · Your trip, the cost and coming homePage 15 of 20
Send these by email so the answers are in writing before you pay a deposit or book flights. They are questions, not answers this sample has already checked.
The treatment and the doctor
1Can you give the exact all-in CAR-T price in writing, including pre-treatment checks, cell manufacturing, admission and monitoring?
2Will the doctor named in writing perform the procedure, and will I see the same doctor throughout?
3What complications are typical, and how is cytokine-release syndrome managed on the ward?
4Which surgeon and ICU pathway cover nights and weekends?
Visa, medication and records
1Which invitation letter will you issue, and by which date? I will confirm the visa with my own visa centre.
2What letter will you write for medication I bring in and take home?
3Will records, consent forms, and the discharge summary be in English before I leave?
4How will my records reach my doctor at home?
Money, stay and language
5What is included in the price you quote, and how does that desk differ from the regular department?
6How do I pay a deposit and the balance, and which cards do you take? Do not assume a surcharge percentage.
7Will a named coordinator handle my case, and do I need an interpreter outside that desk?
8Can appointments be arranged without a Chinese phone number?
Aftercare and if things change
9When is it safe to fly, and will you give a fitness-to-fly letter?
10What follow-up will you still answer after I return home, and for how long?
11What is the cancellation and refund policy if treatment can't go ahead, including the anaesthetist decision case?
Where to send them
This sample does not publish a hospital email. Ask the hospital for the address, and keep the reply. ChinaClarity's own mailbox is chinaclarity2026@gmail.com.
What we couldn't find out, and how we made this report
?Exact annual foreign-patient volume at the international centre — not published.
?Treatment outcomes by named doctor are not in this sample.
?A published international-department price list is not in this sample.
?Patient quotations are not in this sample. None were invented to fill the gap.
How we made this report: we checked the National Health Commission register, the National Doctor Registry, the hospital's international-centre pages, NMPA programme records, Shanghai health-commission sources, visa guidance from Chinese embassy pages, and medication import/export rules from China Customs. In a live report every fact carries a dated source and is re-checked before sending.
We count review themes with a fixed word list rather than an AI summary, so every count can be re-checked. Prices use the exchange rate on the research day, and [O]/[E] markers distinguish official-record facts from external commentary.
What this report is
Facts about one hospital, each with a numbered, dated source. It doesn't score or approve the hospital.
What it isn't
Medical advice. Whether to go, and which treatment, are decisions for you and your qualified doctors.
Who pays us
You do. Hospitals can't pay to be in a report or to change what it says. ChinaClarity sells the report, not referrals.
[CCR-20261014-S1] Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) — official site, transport and flight info. www.shanghai-airport.com— checked illustrative date
[CCR-20261014-S2] Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) — official site and city-centre transport. www.shanghai-airport.com— checked illustrative date
[CCR-20261014-S3] Shanghai Shentong Metro — Line 10 station and interchange information.
[CCR-20261014-S5] Taxi fare guidance, Shanghai municipal transport commission.
[CCR-20261014-S6] Shanghai Huangpu District visitor and hospital-area access guidance.
[CCR-20261014-S7] Ruijin Hospital International Medical Centre — foreign-patient admission and payment pages [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S8] National Immigration Administration — S2/Q2 visa and invitation-letter guidance.
[CCR-20261014-S9] China Customs — personal medication import and controlled-substance declaration rules.
[CCR-20261014-S10] Ministry of Foreign Affairs — consular services and medical-visitor information.
[DEMO] Sample report — sources, IDs and dates are illustrative stand-ins, not live research. ChinaClarity 明路 is an information product, not medical advice.
[CCR-20261014-S11] Shanghai emergency medical service — 120 ambulance guidance.
[CCR-20261014-S12] Ruijin Hospital — haematology department and operating-doctor list [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S13] National Health Commission of China — tertiary hospital grading criteria.
[CCR-20261014-S14] Joint Commission International — accredited-organisation lookup [DEMO status in sample].
[CCR-20261014-S15] Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine — affiliated hospitals list.
[CCR-20261014-S16] Ruijin International Medical Centre — discharge and records policy [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S17] Hospital visiting-hours and ward policy pages [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S18] International-department CAR-T pricing — verbal quote recorded in the sample narrative [DEMO].
[CCR-20261014-S19] Patient coordinator booking and invitation-letter process [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S20] National Health Commission register — Ruijin Hospital registration entry.
[DEMO] Sample report — sources, IDs and dates are illustrative stand-ins, not live research. ChinaClarity 明路 is an information product, not medical advice.
[CCR-20261014-S22] Payment methods and foreign-card surcharge schedule [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S23] Bilingual discharge summary example and translation practice [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S24] Post-treatment check schedule and fitness-to-fly practice [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S25] Remote follow-up policy for patients living abroad [DEMO sample set].
[CCR-20261014-S26] Home-country aftercare guidance for CAR-T recipients — patient-information literature.
[CCR-20261014-S29] National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) — CAR-T programme and cell-therapy approvals.
[CCR-20261014-S30] JCI accreditation public listing — status shown in the DEMO sample.
[CCR-20261014-S36] National Doctor Registry (医师执业注册信息查询) — licence verification method.
[CCR-20261014-S44] Public-record comparison of Shanghai CAR-T hospitals' international services [DEMO dataset].
[DEMO] Sample report — sources, IDs and dates are illustrative stand-ins, not live research. ChinaClarity 明路 is an information product, not medical advice.