The Chinese government identified healthcare as an area of particular promise in its national AI strategy, highlightin healthcare specifically as one of the key areas in which the application of innovative AI can help provide Chinese citizens with “personalized, diversified, high-quality services.” Recognizing that accelerating the advancement of AI could help China tackle some of its most difficult healthcare challenges, caused by a rapidly urbanizing and ageing population, the strategy document encourages “the use of new models and new methods of AI treatment,” which includes everything from image-assisted diagnosis and surgical robots to intelligent hospitals and smart health monitoring systems.