'Medical Tourism' Continues to Grow in China, as New Website Offers Services

(Beijing) – A company that runs a mobile application providing users with doctor consultations recently launched a website that arranges trips to physicians in other countries, a sign "medical tourism" is growing more popular in China.

Cycares.com, a subsidiary of Chunyu Yisheng, started offering a range services in countries such as the United States, Japan and Thailand on September 22.

The service is evidence that medical tourism, in which patients head to other countries where treatment is better, is growing more popular in China, especially among the affluent.