In 1937, with the outbreak of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, a group of teachers and students from Peking University School of Medicine relocated westward and established the School of Medicine of Xi’an Temporary University, marking the birth of its affiliated hospital. Following successive phases of development through its predecessor institutions — Northwest Medical College, Medical College of Northwest University and Xi’an Medical College — the hospital was relocated to its current site in 1956 and named the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Medical College. In 2000, with the merger into Xi’an Jiaotong University, it was officially renamed the First Affiliated Hospital (FAH) of Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, the hospital has made remarkable progress and has grown into a large, comprehensive Class A tertiary hospital in Northwest China under the administration of National Health Commission, which integrates medical care, teaching, scientific research, rehabilitation and preventive healthcare. From 2018 to 2022, it ranked among the top in the National Performance Assessments of National Tertiary Public Hospitals. At present, the hospital has been shortlisted as one of the first batch of “ counseling units” for the establishment of national medical centers.

To meet the medical needs of the public and to expand and balance the distribution of high-quality medical resources, the hospital has comprehensively promoted the developmental strategy of "one hospital, multiple divisions", aiming to build a development layout of "three hospitals and four divisions". The "three hospitals" include the Main Division (Yanta District, Xi'an), the Land Port Division (Chanba International Port, Xi'an), and the East Division (Yanliang District, Xi'an). The "four divisions" consist of the Xingshan Temple Division, the South Division, the Administration Division, and the MED-X Research Institute in iHarbor. The hospital has 3,765 planned ward beds and over 7,500 staff members, including 903 on-post professionals with senior titles and 129 top-tier talents.

The hospital offers a complete set of disciplines, with 58 clinical and medical technology departments in total, including 48 clinical departments and 10 medical technology departments. The Department of Surgery (Urology) is designated as a National Key Discipline by the Ministry of Education, and Dermatology and Venereology is listed as a National Key Cultivation Discipline. The hospital hosts 26 national clinical key specialty construction programs, 4 national multi-disciplinary cooperative diagnosis and treatment capacity-building projects for severe and major diseases, and 1 national project for enhancing the capacity to diagnose and treat complex diseases (in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases). At the provincial level, there are 10 clinical key specialty construction projects, 5 key medical disciplines, 7 advantageous disciplines, and 1 key traditional Chinese medicine specialty. It also manages 16 Shaanxi Provincial Medical Quality Control Centers and 46 specialties approved as part of the National Drug Clinical Trials Institution. Nine specialty categories, including neurological diseases, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, cancer, mental health, endocrine and metabolic diseases, critical care, and hematologic diseases, have been recommended by Shaanxi Province for application as National Regional Medical Centers.

The hospital places strong emphasis on the development of specialized disciplines and technologies, and has established distinctive strengths in the application of advanced technologies and medical and surgical treatment of complex diseases. In the field of medical-engineering integration, the hospital actively explores 17 innovative technologies across five major categories, such as magnetic compression, magnetic anchoring, magnetic navigation, magnetic levitation and magnetic tracing. The world's first 200W blue laser surgical equipment and a domestically produced ECMO system have been successfully developed and applied in clinical practice. The hospital also independently developed artificial cardiac pacemakers, which continue to be updated and supplied for clinical use. In the field of organ transplantation technology, the hospital is granted the qualification of all major organ transplants, including kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, and intestine. It has performed several multi-organ combined transplantations. Both the quality and quantity of liver and kidney transplants rank among the top in China, with over 7,600 kidney transplants and more than 1,600 liver transplants performed to date. Of these, more than 3,400 kidney transplants and over 1,400 liver transplants were from deceased organ donors. The hospital has reached a leading national level in organ transplantation and was awarded the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for its project “Key Technological Innovations and Clinical Applications in Kidney Transplantation”. It also performed the nation’s first living-donor liver transplant for an IVF-conceived child, and its Surgical DreamWorks project has made breakthroughs in ex vivo organ perfusion and preservation. In the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the hospital ranks first in Northwest China. In the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the hospital performed the world’s first implantation of a fully degradable patent foramen ovale (PFO) occluder and a pioneering composite procedure involving aortic valve replacement, right ventricular diverticulum repair, and full-sternum 3D reconstruction using Peek material. It also developed a degradable auricular appendage occluder, breaking foreign technological monopolies. The hospital has carried out multiple high-difficulty procedures such as off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and off-pump mitral valve replacement, reaching international standards. It has also completed several nationally first-of-its-kind complex and multi-disease minimally invasive cardiac surgeries involving multiple valve replacements, valve replacement (or repair) + Bentall procedures + atrial septal defect repair, and composite incision valve replacement + coronary artery bypass grafting. In the field of infectious disease control and inflammation, the hospital issued the first Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus in China, which has significantly reduced the hepatitis B infection rate. In the field of minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, the hospital pioneered the clinical use of blue laser technology in endoscopic surgery for prostatic hyperplasia and bladder tumors, greatly improving minimally invasive outcomes. The hospital actively promotes new models of medical services, including multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment, daytime diagnosis and treatment, painless diagnosis and treatment, team diagnosis and treatment, holistic nursing, and precision medication. In 2024, the hospital recorded 4.0231 million outpatient and emergency visits, 245,700 discharges, 97,900 surgeries performed on discharged patients, and an average length of stay of 5.87 days.

As the master, doctoral and postdoctoral research stations in the first-level disciplines of Clinical Medicine in China, the hospital undertakes comprehensive responsibilities in undergraduate medical education, postgraduate medical education, continuing medical education, as well as the management and support of undergraduate medical programs for international students from 96 countries around the world. It is among the first group of standardized residency and specialty physician training bases recognized by the Chinese government, offering training in 27 residency programs and 7 specialty programs. The hospital houses three national key specialty training bases in obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, and surgery. It has been designated by the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission as a "National Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Center", a "National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Clinical Skills", and serves as a vice-chair institution of the "National Clinical Practice Education Alliance for University-Affiliated Hospitals" as well as a core member of the "National Virtual Simulation Teaching Innovation Alliance for Clinical Medicine". In recognition of its educational excellence, the hospital has received two second prizes for National Teaching Achievement Awards, developed seven national-level first-class undergraduate courses, and one of the first Ministry-endorsed demonstration courses on ideological and political education. It has produced five recipients of the prestigious Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award, won first prize in the National University Teacher Teaching Innovation Competition, and garnered one First Prize and two Second Prizes in the national MBBS teaching competition for international students. In 2022, it was approved as one of China’s first national “Grand Ideological and Political Curriculum” practice teaching bases. It has received two Second Prizes for National Teaching Achievement Awards, two Special Prizes and eight First Prizes for Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, and has developed nine high-quality courses recognized at or above the provincial and ministerial level, and cultivated four provincial distinguished teachers, one national teaching team, two provincial teaching teams, and has won two awards in provincial college-level young faculty teaching competitions.

The hospital strives to build "a pillar of the great power" in the medical field with a "national system", focusing on the high-level transformation of scientific research to address critical healthcare needs. It continues to refine and implement breakthrough projects targeting both technological bottlenecks and final-stage innovations. Currently, the hospital hosts one National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center, one Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, one Innovation Center for Basic Medical Research under the Ministry of Education, one Belt and Road Joint Laboratory in Shaanxi Province, six provincial key laboratories, three provincial international science and technology cooperation bases, four provincial engineering (technology) research centers, eleven provincial clinical medical research centers, three key research offices under the Shaanxi Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and eleven medical research institutes (offices) affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University. Over the past three years, the hospital has secured 1,499 research projects with a total funding of RMB 396.702 million, including 240 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has published 2,137 SCI-indexed articles, more than 100 high-impact papers, and 1,269 articles in Chinese core journals and above. The hospital’s research excellence has been recognized with five First Prizes and six Second Prizes in the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Awards, one Huaxia Award for Health Management in Medical Science and Technology, One Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education Institutions from the Ministry of Education, one First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, and one Third Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Chinese Medical Association.

Moreover, the hospital actively promotes in-depth integration of information technology with medical services, implements the national policy of "Internet + healthcare" for the people’s benefits, and develops "Smart Good Hospital", the first fully integrated online-offline Internet hospital in China, which enables a seamless full-process experience for medical visits. The platform provides patients with a comprehensive range of services including online appointment registration, video consultations, examination and lab test bookings, report access, health record inquiries, home delivery of medications, and online follow-up care, thereby creating a comprehensive closed-loop online healthcare service system. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the system played a vital role in epidemic prevention and control, as well as in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease patients and follow-up consultations.

The hospital has been honored with the title of "National May 1st Labor Award Unit", and recognized by the National Health Commission as a "National Demonstration Hospital for Improving Medical Services". In 2020, the Party Committee of the hospital was awarded the title of "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" and a "National Advanced Collective in the Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic". The hospital forges ahead under the guidance of the westward relocation spirit of "lofty ambition, selfless dedication, carrying forward tradition, and striving through adversity", the medical community’s wartime spirit of relocating to Shaanxi during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of “revitalizing medicine to strengthen the nation, persevering with determination, cultivating talent with diligence, and saving lives with compassion”, and the great spirit of COVID-19 pandemic response. Adhering to its motto of “Integrity, Compassion, Professionalism, and Excellence”, the hospital is committed to safeguarding the health and well-being of the people, seizes the opportunity of high-quality development, takes the construction of a national medical center as a key task, steadily progressing toward becoming a world-class hospital with Chinese characteristics.

Hospital Addresses:

(Main Division) No. 277 Yanta West Road, Yanta District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

(Land Port Division) No. 8166 Eurasia Avenue, Chanba International Port, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

(East Division) Southeast corner of the intersection of Qianjin West Road and Yingbin North Road, Yanliang District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

(Xingshan Temple Division) No. 55 Xingshan Temple West Street, Yanta District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

(South Division) No. 94 Zhuque Street, Yanta District, Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

Telephone: 029—85323112 (switchboard)

400-000-3222 (Patient Service Hotline)

Website: www.dyyy.xjtu.edu.cn; www.jdyfy.com