Shenzhen Children's Hospital (Affiliated Shenzhen Children's Hospital of Shantou University Medical College)was founded in 1997 in Futian District, Shenzhen. It is a comprehensive children's hospital integrating medical treatment, health care, scientific research, teaching and rehabilitation, and also the first tertiary A-level specialized children's hospital in Guangdong Province. Currently, the hospital has two campuses: Futian Campus and Longhua Campus. Among them, the Futian Campus covers a total area of about 43,000 square meters with a building area of about 170,000 square meters, and has 1,331 open beds. It has a complete range of disciplines, covering all business departments of large general children's hospitals. In 2024, the number of outpatient and emergency visits reached 2.3836 million, and the number of discharged patients was 88,400. In October 2024, the Longhua Campus was officially put into trial operation, with a total area of about 40,000 square meters and a building area of about 310,000 square meters. It is planned to have 1,500 open beds, making it the largest single-building children's specialized hospital campus in China.

　　Shenzhen Children's Hospital is a key construction hospital of the second batch of high-level hospitals in Guangdong Province, a branch center of the "National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases", and has been selected as a "research-oriented hospital construction unit" by the Chinese Research Hospital Association and the Shenzhen Health Commission. The hospital's pediatrics, pediatric surgery, pediatric intensive care medicine, and neonatology are key clinical specialties at the provincial level. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Pediatrics is a "flagship" department for integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key TCM specialty during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period in Guangdong Province, a key construction unit of TCM pediatrics in Guangdong Province, and a key construction unit of TCM in Shenzhen. In addition, the hospital also has municipal key specialties such as the Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Department of Pediatric Surgery. Through the "Shenzhen Medical Three Talents Project", the hospital has introduced 20 high-level medical teams from home and abroad.

　　In 2023, the hospital was awarded Grade A in the national performance assessment of tertiary public hospitals (children's specialized hospitals); successfully passed the Level 6 evaluation of clinical application of electronic medical records; and its clinical medicine discipline entered the top 1% of ESI globally, marking that the hospital's scientific and technological innovation capability has emerged on the international stage. In the list of reputations of Chinese hospital specialties released by the Fudan University Hospital Management Research Institute, the hospital's pediatric internal medicine and pediatric surgery have ranked second in South China for many years, and have been nominated in the field of rare diseases. In the hospital discipline STEM ranking, pediatrics ranks 9th in the country, hematology ranks 50th, otolaryngology ranks 72nd, and psychiatry ranks 92nd. In the "2023 China Hospital Innovation and Transformation Ranking", the hospital was among the top 100 in the country, ranking 67th in innovation and transformation (second among children's hospitals in the country) and 41st in patent transformation (first among children's hospitals in the country).

　　The hospital has been approved for two provincial engineering carriers: "Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for Precision Diagnosis of Childhood Infections" and "Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Molecular POCT Intelligent Diagnosis of Childhood Infectious Diseases". It has successively established Shenzhen-level engineering carriers such as "Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Diagnosis of Severe Childhood Diseases", "Shenzhen Engineering Center for High-Throughput Gene Sequencing Technology of Pathogens", "Public Service Platform for Drug Clinical Trial Bases", "Public Service Platform for Research and Development of Humanized Mouse Models of the Immune System", and "Shenzhen Public Service Platform for Molecular Medicine of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology". At the same time, the hospital has obtained the qualification of a national drug clinical trial institution, with 6 professional groups including pediatric neurology, pediatric hematology, pediatric respiratory, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric otolaryngology, and pediatric dermatology.

　　In recent years, the hospital has undertaken more than 190 major scientific research projects at all levels, including the Ministry of Science and Technology's "863" project, key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, major projects of the health industry scientific research special project of the National Health Commission, projects of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation, and key projects of the Shenzhen Science, Technology and Innovation Commission. The cumulative vertical scientific research funds have exceeded 120 million yuan. In the past five years, the hospital has published more than 700 SCI papers, including nearly 60 papers with an impact factor (IF > 10). The hospital has also led, written or participated in the formulation of nearly 70 domestic and foreign clinical guidelines, expert consensuses and standards. In addition, the hospital successfully hosted the world's top academic conference - the 10th World Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and released the "China Action Plan for Rational Use of Antibacterial Drugs in Children (2017-2020)" written by Shenzhen Children's Hospital.

　　Shenzhen Children's Hospital is the Shenzhen Pediatric Clinical College of Shantou University, a teaching hospital of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China Medical University, Chongqing Medical University, and a postgraduate training base for universities such as Zunyi Medical University. In addition, the hospital is also a Shenzhen Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, and has established and put into use the Shenzhen Children's Medical Skills Training Department, cultivating many outstanding pediatric innovative talents.

　　At the same time, the hospital has introduced and trained a group of academic leaders and backbone with high academic influence, including winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, winners of the National Excellent Youth Science Fund, foreign academicians, winners of the Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund, overseas high-level talents, reserve talents, practical clinical medical talents, and distinguished post talents, totaling 51 people. As of December 2024, the hospital has 2,820 employees, including 32 doctoral supervisors, 154 master supervisors, 167 doctors, 805 masters, and 462 professionals with senior titles. In addition, the hospital has 29 directors and deputy directors of national academic groups, 16 group leaders and deputy leaders, 33 standing committee members, and 300 committee members; as well as 76 members of various professional committees of the Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Chinese Stomatological Association, and Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

　　The hospital attaches importance to medical humanistic care. By actively linking and integrating social resources, it vigorously carries out medical assistance services for poor children, pioneered the "V-Care Space" to relieve the pressure of hospitalized children in China, took the lead in launching "Health U Station" volunteer services in the city, pioneered the "Aiyi Bar" to care for medical staff in China, embedded games into medical procedures to improve children's medical experience, and built the first children's hospital hospice ward in South China, filling the gap in Shenzhen's children's hospice care services. It provides help and support for children, families and medical staff in need, and is committed to building a children's hospital with warmth.

　　Shenzhen Children's Hospital will take the construction of a national children's regional medical center as the standard, and strive to build a high-level children's medical center in the Greater Bay Area and a first-class child-friendly hospital in China.