Recently, National Development and Reform Commission formally approved No.1 Hospital Affiliated to ZZU as program entity to construct China’s First “Internet Medical National Project Laboratory”. This will be the first state-level technology platform in Chinese internet medical field, achieving a “zero” breakthrough of Henan Province’s health field in terms of state-level technology platform.

The Thirteenth Five-Year National Plan demanded constructing 8 “Internet Plus” national project laboratories. As one of them, this laboratory practices director responsibility system, operating under the leadership of council, with Prof. Zhao Jie, a deputy party secretary of No.1 Hospital Affiliated to ZZU as lab director. According to the project, the laboratory will target at constructing a platform for the application and research of Internet medical system, and building independent intellectual property rights and standard system, thus forming a sustainable collaborative innovation system of industry-university-research, providing a core innovation drive for Chinese internet medical care and big data industry development.(translator Song Gencheng)