This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 14, 1987, in China Daily: A groundbreaking ceremony for a major expansion project for the prestigious Peking Union Medical College Hospital was held on Saturday in Beijing.

The project will boost the hospital beds from the current 600 to 1,200 and its medical staff from 2,000 to more than 3,000 in three to four years. The investment will be more than 140 million yuan.

Peking Union Medical College Hospital, founded in 1921 by the Rockefeller Foundation, has been listed as the country's best hospital for many years.