CITIC Opens JV Medical Facility in Kunming with UK Investor

China took another step towards offering foreign-invested medical facilities today when it opened a new UK-invested healthcare centre in Yunnan province.

The Heythorp CITIC Care Health Centre in Kunming has been established as a joint venture between UK-based Heythorp Healthcare and China’s largest state-owned conglomerate – CITIC Group.

“With increasing incidence of complex and long term health conditions, an increasing ability and willingness to pay for high quality healthcare, and a shortage of international quality healthcare facilities and services currently available in China, the opportunity for British companies in the China market are unprecedented” said Dai Dyfed Evans, Director of Heythorp Healthcare.

London-based Heythorp works with property developers and owners to design and manage healthcare facilities and specialises in the delivery of elderly health care and training services in China.

According to a statement from Heythorp, the new private medical facility will offer a range of international quality primary health, rehabilitation and health and social care services at the CITIC Jialize Resort in the southwestern Chinese city.

The healthcare project got started in Kunming nearly two years ago when Heythorp Healthcare signed an MOU to establish the centre and a pipeline of similar health and care facilities across China during UK Prime Minister, David Cameron’s trade visit to China in December 2013.