November 28, 2005, Wenzhou City Mayor Liu, Qi, Vice Mayor Meng, Jian Xin, and representatives from Adventist joint-venture investment companies signed a 700-bed General Hospital Building Project Agreement. The local TV and news papers released the related news to the public.

In the proposed project USD 55 millions will be invested by joint-venture investment companies including ‘Health Pro (Medical Service Management Limited Company)’ in Hong Kong, ‘Zhejiang Galilee Correspondence Science and Technology Limited Company’ in Zhejiang, and ‘An Hui (Holdings) Limited Company’ in Hong Kong.

The Chinese name of the future hospital is “Wenzhou Gang An International Hospital (温州港安國際醫院).” The name is adopted from Hong Kong Adventist Hospital’s Chinese one, ‘Gang An Hospital (港安醫院).’

The government decided to select the proposal of Adventists whose hospitals are well recognized as a high quality, international, and Adventist-style hospital. There were several hospital-based candidates from Taiwan and Europe areas.

“We praise the Lord for the blessings and the new opportunities to serve the people of China with holistic and quality healthcare service which the Adventist healthcare system has proved successful in the neighboring city of Hangzhou, in the same Zhejiang Province” said James Wu, president of the Chinese Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists who attended the agreement signing ceremony along with Dr. Carlyle Welch from the Loma Linda University Medical Center.

The future first-class general hospital will be 20,000 square meters, and total floor space 80,000 square meters. It will be equipped with administrative offices, internal medicine department, departments of surgery and pediatrics, and also ad-hoc tumor center, heart center, gynecology and obstetrics department, and etc. It provides the outpatient service and the emergency medical treatment service. The hospital will be ready to be operated by 2008.

This hospital will entrust the ‘Health Pro’ in Hong Kong to carry on the management, and prepares for each departmental backbone doctors from both China and other countries, and medical experts who the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital or Loma Linda Medical Center introduces. Outstanding nurses will work in the hospital who graduate from each place including the Wenzhou Medical College, and sometimes they may be trained in foreign countries.

The Wenzhou Gang An International Hospital will provide high quality of medical services for people in not only Zhejiang but also other cities and even international people. The Wenzhou City is located in the south-eastern coast of Zhejiang province in China. About 560,000 people live in Wenzhou which belongs to Zhejiang with a total of 46-million population. Wenzhou is one of major economic, political, cultural, and communications centers in Zhejiang which is well known as the central section of China's golden coastline.