Liaocheng, known as China’s Water City in the North of the Yangtz River, is located at the junction of Henan, Hebei and Shandong Provinces, and also at the intersection of the Yellow River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Liaocheng has a population of 5.8 million and covers an area of 8590 square kilometers. Liaocheng is famous for its water, and filled with aural because of water. There are 23 rivers each covers a drainage area of more than 30 square kilometers, and 3 rivers each covers a drainage area of more than 100 square kilometers. The Yellow River, known as the Mother River of China, serpentines more than 50 kilometers here. The world famous Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the city centre. So many lovely rivers and lakes formed a unique scenery of the lake in the city, the city in the lake, the city surrounded by the rivers. Liaocheng is an ancient city with a history of 2500 years. There are 9 key cultural relics under state protection in Liaocheng such as Guangyue Tower, Caozhi Tomb and Shanshan Guild Hall etc. We also have 15 key cultural relics under province protection in Liaocheng. Liaocheng is rich in mineral resources. There are 24 billion tons coal reserves, 30 million tons of oil reserves, 1 trillion cubic meters natural gas reserves and 645 billion cubic meters of rock oil.Liaocheng People’s Hospital and Liaocheng School of Clinical Medicine, Taishan Medical University, was established in July 1947. It is a comprehensive tertiary hospital which includes clinical services, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as scientific research. With the unique geographical and technological advantages, the hospital has gradually grown to become one of the biggest regional healthcare centers, serving for the people come from Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Anhui and Inner Mongolia provinces, apart from Liaocheng Municipal City. There are 3100 employees in the Hospital, among which 550 are consultant doctors, and 600 doctors have a master or doctoral degree. There are 2600 hospital beds, 82 in patient wards. In the year of 2009, the hospital provided services to 1.53 million outpatients and 130,000 inpatients, with 25,000 surgical procedures performed.With the state-of-the-art hospital infrastructure and medical equipment, the hospital covers 2 main campuses with the total clinical space of 250,000 m2. The healthcare-center-building located in the eastern bank of JingHang Canal is the largest single building of 110,000 m2. There are about 2300 sets of large-scale advanced medical equipments in the hospital, such as Brilliance iCT, Achiva 3.0T MR and Brilliance 64. There are two provincial medical research institutes which provide supports for research and development. They are Oral Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Key Laboratory of Medical Biology, Research Center of Minimally Invasive Treatment for Cardiovascular Diseases.Several disciplines in the hospital have become leading groups in Shandong Province.The Neurology Department and Cardiology Department are the key clinical and research departments of the province. Hematology Department, Oncology Department, Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Thoracic Surgery Department, Anesthesiology Department and Operating Theatre are also the major medicine and health departments of Shandong Province. Oral Maxillofacial Surgery is appointed as the A-level department by the Ministry of Health. Restoration orthodontic discipline is appointed as the center for health vocational and technical training by the Chinese Ministry of Health. Hepatobiliary Department is identified as the unit of performing liver transplantation by the Ministry of Health, Digestive Department, Neurology Department, Cardiology Department, General Surgery Department and Orthopedic Surgery Department are designated national center for clinical medicine.The hospital pays great attention to develop collaborative relationship with international medical institutions, which now including Singapore General Hospital; Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University in Korea; Nationwide Children’s Hospital of Ohio State University in USA; School of Clinical Medicine, Tulane University in USA; Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Korea; Charles Sturt University in Australia; Medical Research Center of University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. International cooperations have greatlyenhanced the growth of technological progress such as Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center of China. Liaocheng People’s Hospital and Australia. Charles Sturt University, Medical Research Center of China. Liaocheng People’s Hospital and Netherlands. University of Utrecht.In recent years, the hospital focuses on new technologies such as interventional and microsurgery technology, tissue and organ transplantation, acute and severe diseases treatment technology, and diagnose of the knotty problems. Many new procedures have been performed: demicoincide hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, repair of ventricular septal defect with thoracoscope, Fallot’s Trilogy total correction, carotid artery endarterectomy, coronary artery bypass of extracranium and intracranium, stem cells treatment, pediatric CP surgery.As the leading hospital in Shandong Province, Liaocheng People’s Hospital is the postgraduate training center and teaching hospital of Shandong Medical University; Qingdao Medical University; Xuzhou Medical University and Taishan Medical University. The School of Dentistry, Taishan Medical University is located in the hospital. The hospital has trained a large number of college students to be qualified doctors, nurses and allied health professionals.The hospital is a not-for-profit institution with a tradition of providing affordable tertiary healthcare to a vast inland population of more than 10 million people. It has played a critical role in many local and national emergent events such as Wenchuan earthquake; hand, foot and mouth disease; influenza H1N1 and other major infectious diseases. During these events Liaocheng People’s Hospital has been the designated center to provide services to the people from the regions being affected.医苑盛华水城晖——蓬勃发展的山东省聊城市人民医院卓越秀美的“江北水城运河古都”聊城，古老而又神奇。
