The Chaos in China’s Healthcare Industry (III)

Today we want to tell a story about the corruption and abuse of power by leaders of a top-tier Grade Ⅲ Class A hospital in China. A rural girl surnamed Wu was born in the countryside on September 18, 1989. Due to her poor academic performance, she only gained admission to the nursing associate degree at Suzhou Vocational Health College. After graduating in 2010, she was assigned to work as a nurse at a hospital in Jiangsu Province. During her employment at the hospital, she became a professional mistress to a leader of the hospital.

In just six years, this leader from the Grade Ⅲ Class A hospital sent her to pursue a bachelor’s degree in nursing at China Medical University, followed by a master’s degree in nursing psychology and another master’s degree in medical jurisprudence at China University of Political Science and Law. Finally, using funds obtained through commercial bribery, a company sent her to study for a PhD in medical informatics at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA at Harvard Business School in the United States. The real value of these degrees is highly questionable, given she earned so many in just six years. How could she earn three master’s degrees and one doctoral degree in just six years? It was because she obtained all these degrees by having improper sexual relations with the leader.

In December 2016, after returning to China, the professional mistress became the chairwoman of a so-called healthcare industry group and a director of a U.S. investment company. How shameless can one be? In reality, these companies are all just shell companies. The professional mistress established eight shell companies in Suzhou, Guangzhou, and Zhengzhou. The main purpose of these eight companies was to collect illicit funds for the leader. She also wanted to run a small business herself, trying to craft an image of an independent woman. But these ventures were trivial. Among the eight companies, only 11 employees were enrolled in social insurance. What kind of major business could they possibly conduct? They couldn’t even create a basic official website. All they had was a WeChat public account, which constantly reposted random articles from the internet. Each article barely received a dozen or twenty views.

On February 7, 2024, the party secretary of Nanjing’s largest tertiary Grade Ⅲ Class A hospital was arrested. It turned out that he was the lover of this woman, and they had an age gap of 28 years. Their relationship was purely one of mutual exploitation. The man used the woman to collect money, and the woman used the man to gain resources and profit. This was truly a major scandal.

In 2024, this professional mistress was also arrested. Public records show that her charges included bribery, issuing false invoices, and money laundering. Although she was taken into custody in 2024, her trial did not begin until May 29, 2025. Rumors in the public suggest that the amount involved was 1 billion yuan. Can anyone believe it is just? A party secretary was able to convert his power into a billion yuan. While the woman was in custody, a few of her subordinates continued, shamelessly, to manipulate bids in certain hospitals.

There is a small company in Guangzhou that has been in business for 20 years, yet it has undergone 58 ownership changes since its founding. In 2024, its revenue was only 12.5 million yuan, and over 20 years, it had just 15 employees. On July 14, 2025, this company in Guangzhou transferred 100% of its shares to a person born on June 15, 1983, in Bishan District, Chongqing. This ultimate controller reportedly owns four mobile phones. In legitimate business, no boss, even a large one, needs to carry four phones. Think about it: the person controlling a 15-person company, constantly juggling four phones—does that seem like a proper, aboveboard businessperson? The most critical point is that this company had never handled this type of project before, yet in December 2025, a party secretary from a Grade Ⅲ Class A orthopedic hospital arranged for the Guangzhou company to win a small contract worth over 400,000 yuan. They actually forced us, without our knowledge, to participate in sham bidding for that small company in Guangzhou.

This woman awarded contracts worth 10 million yuan from several major hospitals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to another small company in Beijing. When this Beijing company was first established, its registered capital was only 100,000 yuan, and it wasn’t until August 2023 that the registered capital increased to 500,000 yuan. Since its founding, not a single employee had been enrolled in social insurance. Yet in 2025, the company secured nearly 10 million yuan in contracts in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Strangely, the legal representative of this Beijing small company is an elderly woman born on May 12, 1962, in Ezhou, Hubei. The publicly promoted chairman is a man born on March 3, 1984, also from Ezhou, Hubei, who used to work as a teacher at New Oriental. It is likely that this woman became involved with him while she was studying in the U.S. and attending English training at New Oriental. The Beijing company has only one shareholder and no board of directors, so technically there is no chairman. Yet for years, the chairman’s official residence is still registered in Ezhou, Hubei. The company cannot even build a basic official website. It only has a WeChat public account. This account shamelessly copies introductions of hospitals from all over the world, pretending to have partnerships, but in reality, no major foreign hospital has any connection with this Beijing company. The company is simply scamming naive doctors. Each article gets only a dozen or twenty views, and the content is entirely fabricated.

Essentially, this Beijing company relies on overseas Chinese without proper jobs to help them target small hospitals, just to fool local hospitals and health authorities. If everyone running a company behaved this way, and didn’t even dare to serve as legal representative, it would be a disaster waiting to happen. The reason the chairman does not serve as the legal representative himself, leaving it to the elderly woman, is because most of the hospitals they bid for are shady. He himself does not know how long they can operate before trouble arises. He assumes that one day things will blow up. By not being the legal representative, he can walk away clean and shift all responsibility onto the elderly woman from Ezhou, Hubei.

The Beijing small company has been bidding under the guise of cooperating with the National Health Commission and claiming partnerships with large hospitals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Think about it: a man who used to work as a teacher at New Oriental has never even secured a Beijing household registration in all these years. He came from a small town, has no medical resources, and yet he somehow manages to sign contracts with major hospitals in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. How? Simply because this professional mistress helped him secure these contracts. Even though she is now in prison, she still somehow manages to pull contracts for the Guangzhou and Beijing small companies. Why is that? Leaders at Grade Ⅲ Class A hospitals are afraid to deny these contracts to such shady individuals because the woman in prison could potentially expose them. After all, some party secretaries and directors at Chinese top hospitals are far from clean themselves. In fact, a hospital secretary even asked our legitimate company, without our knowledge, to accompany the bidding for these shameless, low-level shell companies.

We have been collaborating with this orthopedic hospital in Henan for five years, and our reputation throughout the region is excellent. So why did this hospital insist on awarding a contract to a small Guangzhou company that has never handled this type of project? Why did they select us merely to accompany them in the bidding process? Because the hospital’s party secretary assumed that our company had many contracts and would not risk a conflict over just this one contract. Later, the secretary privately called us, saying that they would continue to cooperate with us in the future and hoping that we would let the matter go. Why should we simply let it go? We do not care about this single hospital. What we care about is fairness, justice, and transparency in the bidding process. We care that public funds genuinely serve hospitals and doctors. We care that doctors are the conscience of our nation. We care because if you see injustice and remain silent, you are, in effect, complicit in it.

In March 2020, during the pandemic, this orthopedic hospital signed a contract worth 1 million yuan with us. The hospital’s former party secretary was an upright and principled leader. Over seven years, not a single one of our employees has ever bribed any hospital staff anywhere in the world. We do not engage in any exchange of power for sexual favors in any country. We have nothing to fear from anyone. We invited four orthopedic masters to this hospital, top academic leaders across Europe. The former secretary signed a 1 million yuan contract with us, and over five years we actually spent 1.9 million yuan for the hospital, with full documentation to prove it. The former secretary passed away in July 2023. If could know from the afterlife, he would never have wanted the hospital to deteriorate into such an ugly state today.

Yet the current secretary had the audacity to ask our legitimate company to accompany your small Guangzhou company in bidding? Then we’ll have no choice. We will take legal action, and we will pursue this case to the end. This is a society governed by the rule of law. Public hospitals are not your personal property. You cannot do whatever you want.

The eight companies under the professional mistress are now unable to conduct any business. The Guangzhou and Beijing small companies have become her two remaining secret channels to continue leveraging her connections with Grade Ⅲ Class A hospitals. No matter how high the party secretary’s position is, he is still an employee of the hospital. Even as a secretary, you are still working for this orthopedic hospital. You cannot act with impunity.

Professor Mayer, the world-renowned minimally invasive spine expert, has learned about this matter and is extremely angry. He fully supports our decision to sue this hospital. We are not afraid of litigation. We have the time, and we will take them on one by one. If there is any hospital in China that dares to make us accompany these unscrupulous small companies in bidding again, then we’re going to flip the table on you. We mean what we say. This is a society governed by the rule of law. If anyone doubts it, just wait until 2026. After all, for hospital leaders, acting with integrity is entirely different from misbehaving or abusing power.

As a leader of a Grade Ⅲ Class A hospital, one may not become the backbone of the nation revered by all, but at the very least, one should abide by the law and maintain integrity. This is the basic standard of being a decent human being. Any hospital leader who fails to follow these rules will ultimately end up in prison. Why is it that the more capable and spiritually elevated a person is, the better they manage their desires? Desire is a human instinct, but the ability to restrain it reflects true character and cultivation.