Han Qing-quan

Han Qingquan (1884 to 1921) was a Chinese doctor and educator described as a pioneer of modern medical service and public health in China. Born in Cixi, Ningbo, in Zhejiang Province in the late Qing period, he was one of fifteen students selected and financially supported by the Zhejiang provincial and Hangzhou prefectural governments to study in Japan in 1902. He entered Kanazawa Medical School in 1904 and graduated in 1908, then returned to Hangzhou as a school doctor at the Zhejiang Advanced College. In 1911, with Tang Erhe, he co-founded the Zhejiang Hospital, the first modern hospital established by Chinese in Zhejiang Province, and served as its president. On 1 June 1912 he founded the Zhejiang Medical School and became its first president, with the hospital as its teaching hospital, the first appearance of that combined model in mainland China. He died in his office in Hangzhou in 1921.