A healthy attitude towards health check (3)

According to Nanfang Daily, a report just released by a Beijing-based market research company says there are now more than 8,000 medical checkup facilities in China at the end of 2011.

Each year, about 100 million people go through medical checkups, and the market is worth about 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), with the demand increasing by 25 percent year on year, according to the report.

Han Xiaohong, founder and president of the Ciming Health Checkup Management Group, says: “When I started the first private medical checkup center in Chaoyang district, Beijing in 2002, people thought we were crazy to ask healthy people to lie down and get tested.”

Han’s company now runs a network of nearly 50 clinics across China and serves 2 million people annually.

Although she had the foresight to predict the trend, even she has been caught by surprise by its rapid development. “The change is beyond my expectation.”