Shenzhen Children's Hospital (Shenzhen Children's Hospital Affiliated to Shantou University Medical College)was founded in 1997 in Futian District, Shenzhen. It is a comprehensive children's hospital integrating medical care, health care, scientific research, education and rehabilitation, as well as the first Level 3, Grade A children's specialist hospital in Guangdong Province. The hospital now owns two campuses: Futian Campus and Longhua Campus.

　　The Futian Campus covers an area of approximately 43,000 square meters, with a building area of about 170,000 square meters and 1,331 beds. It offers a complete range of departments covering all services of a large-scale comprehensive children's hospital. In 2025, the hospital handled 2.49 million outpatient and emergency visits and discharged 88,000 patients. Longhua Campus officially started trial operations. in October 2025. It covers about 40,000 square meters with a floor area of 310,000 square meters and plans to open 1,500 beds, making it the largest single-building children's specialist hospital in China.

　　The hospital is a high-level hospital development unit in Guangdong Province and a sub-center of the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases. It has also been selected as a national, provincial and municipal research-oriented hospital development unit.

　　The Department of Pediatrics is a top-tier key clinical specialty in Guangdong Province; Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Neonatology (NICU), and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology are key clinical specialties in Guangdong Province. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Pediatrics is a leading department of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key TCM specialty of Guangdong Province during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, a key construction unit of TCM Pediatrics in Guangdong Province, and a key construction unit of clinical TCM specialties in Shenzhen.

　　In addition, the hospital has 5 municipal key specialties including Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, and 2 Shenzhen characteristic specialties including Adolescent Health Care (Adolescent Gynecology) and Child Mental Health Care. Through the Shenzhen "Medical Talents, Technology, and Services Project", the hospital has introduced 19 high-level medical teams from home and abroad, including 3 Class A teams and 16 Class B teams.

　　In April 2026, the hospital officially passed the International Hospital Accreditation, becoming the first children's specialized hospital nationwide to obtain the accreditation under the Chinese International Hospital Accreditation System. This milestone achievement indicates that the hospital's medical services and quality management have fully aligned with advanced international standards, marking a new leap toward internationalized and high-quality pediatric medical services. In 2024, the hospital was rated Grade A in the National Performance Assessment of Tertiary Public Hospitals (Children's Specialist Hospitals); it successfully passed the Level 6 Evaluation of Electronic Medical Record Clinical Application; and its clinical medicine discipline entered the top 1% of ESI globally, marking its scientific and technological innovation capacity emerging on the international stage.

　　In the 2022 China Hospital Ranking released by the Hospital Management Institute of Fudan University, the hospital ranked 20th in South China, and Internal Pediatrics was nominated for the National Specialist Reputation Ranking for the first time. In terms of specialist reputation, Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery have ranked second in South China for consecutive years, and Rare Diseases has been nominated for the South China Specialist Reputation Ranking for two consecutive years.

　　In the 2023 STEM Discipline Ranking of the hospital, Pediatrics ranked 9th nationwide, Hematology 50th, Otorhinolaryngology 35th, Allergy 51st, Rheumatology and Immunology 72nd, and Psychiatry 92nd. In the China Hospital Innovation and Transformation Report (2025) released in 2025, the hospital was selected as one of the "2025 Progressive Hospitals in Medical Innovation and Transformation", as one of the only three children's hospitals on the list nationwide, firmly ranking in the first echelon of children's hospitals in China in terms of medical innovation and transformation.

　　The hospital has been designated two provincial engineering platforms in Guangdong: Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Precision Diagnosis of Pediatric Infections and Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Molecular POCT Intelligent Diagnosis of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. It has also set up a number of municipal engineering platforms in Shenzhen, including Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Diagnosis of Severe Pediatric Diseases, Shenzhen Engineering Center for High-throughput Gene Sequencing of Pathogens, Public Service Platform for Drug Clinical Trial Base, Public Service Platform for Humanized Mouse Model Development of Immune System, Public Service Platform for Molecular Medicine of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in Shenzhen, and Shenzhen Clinical Research Center for Children's Health and Diseases.

　　Meanwhile, the hospital is accredited as a National Drug Clinical Trial Institution with 7 specialties: Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Hematology, Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinology, Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Pediatric Dermatology, and Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

　　In recent years, the hospital has undertaken more than 200 scientific research projects at all levels, covering sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program of China for Science and Technology Innovation 2030, Key Programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of National Key R&D Program, Outstanding Youth Program of Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, Outstanding Youth Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, Excellent Youth Program of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, and Key Programs of Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission. The total vertical scientific research funding exceeds 100 million yuan.

　　In the past five years, the hospital has published more than 1,000 SCI papers, including nearly 90 papers with an impact factor (IF) > 10. It has also led, drafted or participated in the formulation of nearly 70 clinical guidelines, expert consensuses and standards at home and abroad. In addition, the hospital successfully hosted the 10th World Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, a top global academic conference, and released the Action Plan for Rational Use of Antibiotics in Chinese Children (2017-2020) drafted by Shenzhen Children's Hospital.

　　Shenzhen Children's Hospital is a national standardized training base for resident physicians, a job-transfer training base for pediatric physician in Guangdong Province and a Shenzhen standardized training base for specialist physicians. It has set up 8 resident training professional bases and 1 specialist training professional base. Among them, the Pediatrics Base is a key professional base for resident training in Guangdong Province, and the Pediatric Surgery Base serves as a training base for core teachers of resident training in Guangdong Province. The hospital has an annual training capacity of over 300 trainees for a three-year training cycle. It was listed in the first tier across Guangdong Province (only 6 hospitals in total) in the comprehensive evaluation of resident training bases in 2022, and secured the first place in Shenzhen in the same evaluation in 2024.

　　Meanwhile, the hospital is the Shenzhen Pediatric Clinical College of Shantou University, as well as a teaching hospital for Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China Medical University and other institutions of higher education. It has 33 doctoral supervisors and 154 master's supervisors.

　　In addition, it is a postdoctoral innovation practice base of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen. The hospital has established and put into operation the Shenzhen Pediatric Medical Skills Training Department, cultivating a large number of outstanding innovative talents in pediatrics.

　　The hospital has recruited and nurtured a group of academic leaders and key faculty members with significant academic influence, including recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, foreign academicians, provincial recipients of Distinguished Young Scholars, overseas high-level talents, reserve talents, practical clinical medical talents, and specially appointed talents, totaling 61.

　　As of December 2025, the hospital has 3,014 staff members, including 187 with doctoral degrees, 923 with master's degrees, and 523 with senior professional titles. It also has 29 national-level chairmen and vice-chairmen of academic societies, 16 group leaders and deputy group leaders, 33 standing committee members, 300 committee members, and 76 members of various professional committees of Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Chinese Stomatological Association, and Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine.

　　The hospital places great importance on humanistic medical care. By actively integrating social resources, it vigorously provides medical assistance for impoverished children, launches the nation's first "V-Care Space" for stress relief of hospitalized children, the city's first "Health U-Station" volunteer service, the nation's first "Love for Doctors Bar" for medical staff care, embeds games into medical procedures to improve children's medical experience, and builds the first hospice care ward for children in South China, filling the gap of pediatric hospice care in Shenzhen. It provides support for children in need, their families and medical staff, striving to build a warm children's hospital.

　　Striving for excellence with benevolence and dedication, for over 20 years since its founding, Shenzhen Children's Hospital has been committed to protecting children's health and fostering hope, with its original mission remaining unchanged. Based on the standard of building a national regional medical center for children, the hospital will endeavor to become a high-level pediatric medical center in the Greater Bay Area and a world-class child-friendly hospital in China.