Tianjin Pengruili Hospital's Full Lifecycle International Medical Weight Loss Center Officially Opens

Source: Global Times

On March 30, the country’s first full-lifecycle international medical weight-loss center—built based on Tianjin PengRuili Hospital, China’s first foreign-invested, triple-A (level 3) comprehensive hospital—was officially inaugurated in the presence of guests from all sectors.

At the opening ceremony, Mr. Liu Dan, President of Tianjin PengRuili Medical City and President of Tianjin PengRuili Hospital, delivered remarks. He said: “As China’s first foreign-invested, triple-A (level 3) comprehensive hospital, we have the responsibility and capability to respond to the national call. Relying on internationally advanced medical resources and management experience, we will build a truly full-lifecycle international medical weight-loss center. We believe that with the collective efforts of all colleagues, the center will surely become a banner in the field of weight-loss management nationwide, and contribute the strength of PengRuili Hospital to the Healthy China initiative.”

Mr. Wang Po, the person in charge of the full-lifecycle international medical weight-loss center at Tianjin PengRuili Hospital, emphasized the center’s planning in his introduction: “Our core philosophy is medical-grade, international, and across the entire lifecycle. Medical-grade means professional assurance by a level 3 hospital. International means that international experts will make scheduled visits and international patients will be served on-site. Across the entire lifecycle means a complete chain covering ‘prevention–intervention–management,’ so patients will benefit for life. Our center is the first international medical weight-loss center in the country named ‘full lifecycle,’ which is a first in the domestic market.”

Today, obesity has become a major public health challenge that urgently needs to be addressed worldwide. Its harms go far beyond the “being overweight” itself and are gradually turning into a “silent killer” that threatens human health. In the face of increasingly prominent obesity issues, the nation has continued to step up efforts. Since 2024, the National Health Commission, together with multiple departments including the Ministry of Education and the General Administration of Sport, has jointly launched and continuously promoted the “Weight Management Year” series of activities, formally elevating weight management to the level of a national strategy. This is driving a deep shift in health service concepts from “treating illness once it occurs” to “preventing illness before it happens,” and building a full-lifecycle health service system covering “prevention–intervention–management.” It has become a shared consensus and direction for action across the healthcare industry.

Against this backdrop, Tianjin PengRuili Hospital fully leverages its unique advantage as China’s first foreign-invested, triple-A (level 3) comprehensive hospital. Based on national strategic needs, it focuses on the pressing health pain points of the public. By integrating top-tier medical resources both domestically and internationally and gathering the strength of leading experts, it has taken the lead in establishing the country’s first full-lifecycle international medical weight-loss center. It breaks through the limitations of traditional weight-loss approaches—“heavy intervention, light management” and “heavy short-term, light long-term”—and provides scientific, standardized, precise, and long-lasting medical-grade weight-loss solutions for people with obesity. It truly achieves the core goal of “lose weight for a while, stay healthy for a lifetime,” and carries out the Healthy China strategy with practical actions.

In the future, the center will regularly invite authoritative international experts in the field of obesity to make on-site visits, conduct surgical demonstrations, and hold academic exchanges. At the same time, it will specifically set up an international patient service channel to provide personalized services such as bilingual diagnosis and treatment and coordination for cross-border care. This will realize “international resources localized, local services internationalized,” and build a medical weight-loss management platform with global influence—so that Chinese patients can enjoy world-class medical weight-loss services without leaving home.

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