The Evaluation Project on Potential Impacts of Developing International Health Industry 

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Abstract:

The purpose of the project is to collect advanced countries’ lessons for developing medical tourism, and prepare evaluation report. The research direction of the project includes the following four perspectives: first, to evaluate the benefit and impact of medical tourism; second, to investigate labor demand and supply in medical tourism industry; third, to provide an evaluation report on the impact of special zone for international health care industry and zone selection; fourth, to set up a project management office to coordinate relevant stakeholders and provide in in-time consulting service. Major policy recommendations include: government should fully aware of the impacts of medical tourism and health care zone, providing necessary complementary measures and strengthening communication with the public. In doing so, policies can thus win support from the public. keywords：medical tourism, free trade pilot zone, health care industry zone, labor supply and demand in medical tourism.