Established in 200 1, the first hospice hospital in Tianjin-Tianjin First Central Hospital, Ningyang Hospital.

As a part of the national hospice care medical service plan of Li Ka-shing Foundation, it receives 1 10,000 yuan from the Foundation every year to provide free on-site treatment for cancer patients with advanced poverty. According to Mr. Li Ka-shing's eight-character service tenet of "helping the poor, relieving pain and making free home visits", we provide patients with services such as analgesia, psychological consultation, bioethics, hospice care and death. The hospice care of Tianjin No.1 Central Hospital is the largest hospice care hospital with the most advanced equipment in China. The service mode of hospice care integrates home service, outpatient service and consultation service, adhering to the concept of "benefiting patients and society", so that patients with advanced cancer can have dignity, feel the warmth of the world and get spiritual comfort in the last stage of their lives.

Tianjin is the birthplace of hospice care medicine in China. 1988 Tianjin medical university initiated the establishment of "hospice care research center" in China, 1990 took the lead in establishing hospice care medical institutions. Since then, it has organized many international academic seminars, which laid the foundation for the development of hospice care medicine in China.