Qinghai Road Outpatient Department

I. Overview

The predecessor of the Qinghai Road Famous Physicians Special Clinic of Shanghai Yueyang Hospital was the Shanghai Municipal Publicly Funded Medical Care Fifth Outpatient Department, founded in 1952 and acclaimed as “the birthplace of famous traditional Chinese medicine physicians” and “the cradle of famous traditional Chinese medicine physicians.” Commonly known as the “Fifth Outpatient Department,” it is located in two garden villas built in the 1930s beside Nanjing West Road, Shanghai’s most prosperous thoroughfare. They are the former residence of Shanghai tycoon Zhou Xiangyun and are protected historic buildings at the municipal level in Shanghai.

At that time, the “Fifth Outpatient Department” brought together famous physicians and a wide variety of schools: internal medicine—Lu Yuanlei, Yan Erling, Zhang Cigong, Zhang Fengjiao, Pang Jue and Cheng Menxue; traumatology—Shi Xiaoshan, Shi Youshan and Tong Zhongyi; gynecology—Zhu Xiaonan, Zhu Nansun and Chen Danian; acupuncture and moxibustion—Lu Shouyan, Huang Xianming, Yang Yongxuan, Zhu Rugong, Xi Yongjiang and Dang Boping; surgery—Gu Bohua; throat medicine—Zhang Zanchen; hemorrhoid medicine—Wen Maokang; and many other great masters of the Shanghai school of traditional Chinese medicine gathered here. Today, this remains a place where the Shanghai school of traditional Chinese medicine is carried on.

To protect the development of the academic schools of the Shanghai school of traditional Chinese medicine and pass them on through innovation, the “Clinical Heritage Center for Modern Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine Schools” was established at the Qinghai Road Famous Physicians Special Clinic in 2009. It includes research offices and studios for the clinical heritage of the various schools, bringing together successors of famous modern Shanghai schools, tracing the lines of their transmission, organizing and summarizing their academic thought, and cultivating a new generation of successors.

The renowned Lu-style acupuncture and Ding-style tuina of the Shanghai school of traditional Chinese medicine originated here. With distinctive techniques that cultivate both inner and outer aspects, they have cured countless difficult and complicated diseases and treated prominent figures from all walks of life. They were once the “golden signboard” known to everyone in “old Shanghai.” In September 2020, the “Shanghai School Acupuncture and Tuina Center” made its debut here in a completely new form. It is China’s top-level acupuncture and tuina medical treatment center, and is also home to the National Tuina Medical Treatment Center, the Shanghai Clinical Medical Center for Acupuncture and Tuina, and the WHO International Acupuncture Training Center.

Today, the “Shanghai School Acupuncture and Tuina Center” brings together many first-rate acupuncture and tuina experts from across China. Upholding tradition while innovating, and carrying on and developing the heritage, it actively leverages its geographical advantages and disseminates Shanghai-school culture. To serve corporate white-collar workers and international friends, we have specially opened extended outpatient hours at midday and in the evening, creating a distinctive traditional Chinese medicine brand for the economic circle of Nanjing Road—China’s No. 1 road.

Through the changes of the times, as a representative of Shanghai-school traditional Chinese medicine culture, the Qinghai Road Famous Physicians Special Clinic of Yueyang Hospital continues to bring together renowned traditional Chinese medicine masters, including national TCM masters, nationally renowned TCM physicians, and renowned TCM physicians of Shanghai. It carries on schools with distinctive characteristics, serves countless patients, and has become a “shining calling card” for traditional Chinese medical services in Shanghai.

II. Geographical Location

III. Transportation Routes:

Nanjing West Road Station of Metro Lines 2, 12 and 13

Buses 20, 23, 24, 37, 41, 49, 109 and 112