The Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong was opened in 2012. Due to many financial challenges in the early stage of operation, the University of Hong Kong needed to advance the salaries of its medical professors who went to Beijing for medical consultations. From 2012 to 2016, a total of 600 million yuan was advanced. During the period, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital only Paid off some debts.
The University of Hong Kong and the Shenzhen Municipal Government signed a 10-year contract to jointly run the "Hong Kong University-Shenzhen Hospital", which will expire in 2021. At that time, the contract was only renewed for one year.
It is understood that the disputed arrears of approximately 600 million yuan was returned to the University of Hong Kong by the Shenzhen Municipal Government last year, and the two parties signed a second 10-year operating contract, that is, the two parties will continue to cooperate in the operation of Hong Kong University Deep Hospital until 2032.
Since 2017, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital has paid the remuneration of the professors of the University of Hong Kong's School of Medicine to go to Beijing for medical consultations. At present, the two parties can be said to have "no delays and no arrears" financially.
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Lu Chongmao, the former dean, is expected to pay back within 10 years
The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital owed about 600 million yuan to Hong Kong, and the incident once caused controversy.
Lu Chongmao, the current director of the Medical and Health Bureau and former director of the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, once said that the "old debt" of 600 million yuan is expected to be gradually repaid within 10 years.
After Zhang Wenzhi, a former chair professor of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Faculty of Medicine of Hong Kong, took over as the dean in August 2022, the incident came to light.
It is understood that the Shenzhen Municipal Government has repaid about 600 million yuan in arrears to HKU last year, and the two parties signed a second 10-year operating contract.
Lu Chongmao, the former director of the Shenzhen Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, is expected to pay it back within 10 years.
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Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital will start to repay the loan in 2018 and first pay back the 100 million arrears in 2017
The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital was opened in 2012. At the initial stage of operation, it encountered many financial challenges. The University of Hong Kong needed to advance the salaries of its medical professors who went north for medical consultations. From 2012 to 2016, a total of 600 million yuan was advanced.
The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital has not repaid the loan until 2018. However, it first repaid the professor's salary of more than 100 million yuan in 2017 that year, and then paid the professor's salary to the University of Hong Kong every year without the University of Hong Kong's advance payment.
The Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital has paid off the arrears of about 600 million yuan owed to Hong Kong.
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As for the first 10-year contract of the University of Hong Kong to operate the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, it will expire in 2021. At that time, the University of Hong Kong said that the Shenzhen Municipal Government and the University of Hong Kong agreed to extend the existing contract for one year; In the following year, the two sides stepped up discussions on the development plan of the hospital and reached a new long-term cooperation agreement as soon as possible. The then president Lu Chongmao also renewed his contract for one year. Lu Chongmao will leave office in June 2022. He took over in August of the same year.
Zhang Wenzhi, the former head of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of HKU, took over as the director of HKU-Shenzhen Hospital. The contract of HKU-Shenzhen Hospital expires tomorrow. News︱HKU-Shenzhen Hospital owes the school 600 million "old debts" and repays less than 20 million in 5 years
