Zibo Wanjie Hospital's WPTC is the first proton therapy center in China to introduce the world's most advanced proton therapy equipment, and on December 20, 2004, the WPTC was put into clinical use, becoming the world's fourth proton therapy system, the first in China, and the third in the world after the U.S. and Japan, and was commercially operated in China. On June 12, 2005, the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the inauguration of the Borlaug Proton Center at Zibo Wanjie Hospital was held in Zibo Wanjie Hospital, Shandong Province
Because the proton therapy system is the world's most advanced, and the most expensive mega-sized and cutting-edge medical equipment, the establishment of the proton therapy center is a huge investment, and the technological requirements are extremely high, and only a few developed countries such as the U.S. and Japan are able to build it at the present time, and hospitals that have independent proton therapy systems are not able to build them, but they have a lot of experience in the field of proton therapy. At present, only a few developed countries such as the United States and Japan are able to build proton therapy centers, and there are only a few hospitals with independent proton therapy systems. At present, the other three sets of proton therapy systems used in hospitals in the world (two sets in the United States and one set in Japan) are all invested by the government and are half scientific research and half medical in nature. The real proton therapy system invested by the enterprise, Wanjie is the first one in the world. Zibo Wanjie Hospital Borlaug Proton Therapy Center has become the fourth proton therapy center in the world following the United States and Japan after the third country has the equipment