Shanghai greenlights foreign-owned hospitals.

The article reports that the government of Shanghai, China has given its approval to wholly foreign-owned medical institutions to establish their presence in Shanghai's Free Trade Zone. Topics discussed include the challenges created by the absence of implementation rules on the release of the 2011 guidance issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Tentative Measures for the Administration of Wholly Foreign-owned Medical Institutions.