{"id":273960,"date":"2026-02-08T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273960\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:30:10","slug":"foreigners-flock-to-china-for-affordable-medical-treatment-drawn-by-free-visa-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/273960\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners flock to China for affordable medical treatment, drawn by free visa policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The increasing flow of foreign travellers to China in recent years has been given a shot in the arm with many people coming to the country to seek medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The trend has attracted attention online recently after overseas bloggers shared their experiences of visiting Chinese hospitals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A prominent case involved a British woman called Amie who told of her trip to China in December, to treat her long-standing stomach problem.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She said she could not see a doctor because of long waiting lists in the UK\u2019s public healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Amie flew to Beijing and made an appointment at a major hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/73029d32-4c0b-4d2f-86da-ec0d896c3bf0_c783d1e7.jpg\" title=\"This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu\"\/>This composite image shows eight people who have travelled to China for medical treatment. Photo: Baidu<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The next day, she met with the doctor for blood and electrocardiogram tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The increasing flow of foreign travellers to China in recent years has been given a shot in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[31366,36966,11428,12587,4177,154597,14144,14801,13912,275,25840,607,4444,27056,6694,154600,154599,535,154598,15974,18986,5658,154602,65921,18934,4975,154595,134,527,2862,3274,17053,1759,106304,12371,85793,154603,154594,24055,43674,154596,111,139,69,115254,3236,134906,12937,9366,1136,530,5909,6122,19187,3747,7751,26949,4185,97,38925,15401,21733,1613,25444,3040,41621,8363,10708,154601,3807],"class_list":["post-273960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-acupuncture","tag-affordable","tag-ambulance","tag-america","tag-beijing","tag-bloggers","tag-bone","tag-british","tag-broken","tag-canada","tag-cells","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-clinic","tag-countries","tag-cupping","tag-cutting-edge","tag-dental","tag-efficient","tag-emergency","tag-examination","tag-experts","tag-foreign-patients","tag-foreign-tourists","tag-foreigners","tag-free","tag-free-visa","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-heart","tag-hospitals","tag-insurance","tag-japan","tag-massage","tag-medical-bills","tag-medical-costs","tag-medical-service","tag-medical-services","tag-medical-tourism","tag-medical-treatment","tag-new-trend","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-organ","tag-overseas","tag-physiotherapy","tag-prices","tag-pricing","tag-private","tag-residents","tag-results","tag-rules","tag-scan","tag-shanghai","tag-simulation","tag-spleen","tag-stomach","tag-supermarket","tag-techniques","tag-trips","tag-tumour","tag-uk","tag-urgent","tag-us","tag-vancouver","tag-viral-videos","tag-visa","tag-wen-hui-bao","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}