Xi’an Honghui Hospital was founded in 1911. During the war years, the hospital undertook the rescue tasks, saved the lives of countless soldiers and relieved countless victims. With more than 100 years development, the hospital, as the earliest governmental hospital in Xi'an city, is known as one of the three best national orthopaedic centers in 1980s. At present, there are 1312 beds, including 1000 beds in Orthopaedics Department, 3 affiliated hospitals, 5 treatment centers and 51 clinical departments, and it is a medical, teaching, scientific research and rehabilitation combined three level of first-class comprehensive hospital with the Orthopaedics as the national clinical key specialty and variety of disciplines coexisted. The outpatients from 21 provinces, cities or autonomous regions are over 600,000 per year, and the annual operation is more than 40,000. It is known as the “Western Orthopaedic Aircraft Carrier”.

Now we have 12 orthopedic departments with 22 wards. They are Spine Surgery Department (Intervertebral Disc and Deformity Surgery Ward, Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery Ward, Cervical Spine Surgery Ward, Lumbar Spine Surgery Ward, and Priority Ward); Joint Surgery Department (Hip Joint Surgery Ward, Knee Joint Surgery Ward, Osteonecrosis and Joint Reconstruction Surgery Ward); Traumatic Orthopedic Department (Upper Limb Surgery Ward, Lower Limb Surgery Ward, Pelvic Ring Surgery Ward), Orthopaedics Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hand Surgery Department (Ward 1, Ward 2), Bone Microrepair Surgery Department, Orthopaedics Department Of Chinese Medicine (Ward 1, Ward 2), Sports Injury Department (Knee and Ankle Surgery Ward, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Ward), Foot and Ankle Surgery Department, Pediatric Orthopaedics Department, Bone Disease and Tumor Department, Osteoporosis Department (Rheumatology Of Outpatients); in addition to 27 administrative and logistics service departments, the hospital also has many clinical departments, including Neurology, Respiratory and Gastroenterology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Peripheral Vascular Medicine, General Surgery, Urology, Thoracic Surgery, Brain Surgery, Functional Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Ophthalmology, Intensive Medicine, Emergency Department, Manual Reduction Room, Surgical Anesthesia I, Surgical Anesthesia Ii, Dermatology, Pediatrics, Stomatology, Mental and Psychological Clinics, and many medical and technical departments, including Radiology Department, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Room, CT Room, Ultrasonic B (Room 1, Room 2), Radiology Intervention Room, Laboratory Department, Blood Transfusion Department, Pathology Department, Pharmacy Department, Clinical Pharmacy Department, Functional Examination Department, Disinfection Supply Department, Medical Auxiliary Department, Translational Medicine Department.

The hospital has fully utilized the characteristics of the disciplines, and has successively implemented the following surgeries in Northwestern of China firstly: severed finger replantation, artificial joint replacement, total vertebrectomy orthopedics, artificial vertebral body, disc replacement, arthroscopic surgery, finger replantation after tear off, and developed “Sanhua Ointment” and the “Stretching Muscle and Invigorating Blood Powder” and other specialty drugs. “Go to Honghui for orthopedics treatment” has been spread among the people in Shaanxi. The Orthopedics Department of the hospital was rated as the National Clinical Key Discipline, National Osteopathic Prevention Base, and the National Comprehensive Hospital Demonstration for Traditional Chinese Medicine by the National Health and Family Planning Committee. The Orthopaedics Department of Chinese Medicine was identified as a National Key Specialty Construction Project for the 12th Five-Year Plan and was evaluated as Shaanxi Advantageous Specialty by the Provincial Health and Family Planning Committee. The Orthopaedics Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine was rated as Shaanxi Key Specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Spinal Surgery, Joint Surgery Department, and Traumatic Orthopedic Departments were awarded the Key Medical Discipline of Xi'an, and the Shaanxi Clinical Medical Research Center of Spine and Spinal Cord Diseases, Shaanxi General Hospital of Orthopaedic Medical Group, Shaanxi Standardized Orthopaedic Training Base for Resident Physicians, Shaanxi Training Base for Backbones in County-Level Medical Institutions, National AO Training Center, and the National Training Center for Foot And Ankle Surgeon.

As the Shaanxi Provincial Orthopaedic Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical Department in Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical College, the hospital has 1921 employees, including 1,672 medical technicians, 290 experts with senior professional titles, more than 40 doctoral and master tutors, and more than 100 academic members and committee member at all levels. The hospital attaches great importance to the training of doctors and masters and the construction of post-doctoral research stations in which more than 40 masters, doctors and post-doctors are enrolled. It has successively set up 184 research projects at various levels, including 21 projects that have won the awards of National Natural Science Foundation, more than 2,200 papers have been published, including more than 220 papers in SCI; 57 scientific research awards have been won, and 32 national patents have been had; 60 monographs and translations have been published. It is ranked first by virtue of its number of submissions and speeches in the National Orthopaedic Annual Meeting, more than 20 persons attend the influential international academic conferences in Europe and America per year. The first Xi'an Global Orthopaedic Congress, the Xi'an International Orthopaedic Masters Forum and the International Orthopaedic Summit Forum were successfully held. More than 30 world-class experts including Nobel Prize winners were hired as visiting professors, which promoted the rapid development of scientific research and teaching and laid a solid foundation for Honghui to go to the world.

Calamity is man's touchstone, and the hospital shows the great love in rescue. We have participated rescue actions in Tangshan Earthquake, fighting against SARS, Wenchuan Earthquake and Yushu Earthquake. Where there is disaster, there are people from Honghui Hospital. That's why we are widely praised by all sectors of the society. Our hospital received many awards, such as “the National Labor Certificates”, “the Chinese Doctor Prize”, “the National Earthquake Relief Rebuild Worker Pioneer”, “Shaanxi Provincial Model Hospital”, “Earthquake Relief in Shaanxi Province Advanced Unit”, “Bethune Spirit Awards in Shaanxi Province”, “Integrity Unit of Shaanxi Province”, “the Best Unit in Province's Health System Chuangjia Review”, “Shaanxi Provincial Advanced Collective”, “Xi 'An National Unity Progress Advanced Collective”, and “Medical Institutions With Mass Satisfaction”.

Honghui Hospital with more than 100 years development serves as a link between past and future, and creates the first-class hospital in the country with its medical good faith. It is world-renowned because it heals the wounded and rescues the dying and never stops moving. The contemporary practitioners in Honghui will continue to adhere to its philosophy of “great virtue, earnest practice, innovation and harmony” and carry forward the hospital spirit of “saving the wounded and dying, uniting and forging ahead”, insist on the service concept of “all is for patients, all serves the patients, and all facilitates the patients”, take the vision to construct the first one in the west part of China, the first-class one in China, and famous one in the world as the objective to move forwards with the title of “Western Orthopaedic Aircraft Carrier”.