Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, formerly known as Beijing Soviet Red Cross Hospital, was founded in 1952. It was the first big hospital established by the Party and the government in the capital city after the founding of New China, which was agreed by Marshal Stalin and Chairman Mao Zedong, and assisted by the government of the former Soviet Union and the Red Cross Society of the USSR. 1954, the hospital was moved from the old site of Ganshuiqiao to the present site. Chairman Mao Zedong, Vice Chairman Liu Shaoqi, Premier Zhou Enlai, and Chairman Zhu De inscribed the hospital in their own handwriting, and in March 1957, the Soviet government formally handed over the hospital to China, and Premier Zhou came to the hospital to participate in the handing over ceremony in his busy schedule, and in 1970, Premier Zhou personally named the hospital "Beijing Friendship Hospital". At the beginning of the establishment of the hospital, our government drew a group of excellent medical and nursing backbones from all over the country and selected high-quality leading cadres. Under the guidance and assistance of more than 120 experienced medical and nursing experts selected by the Soviet government, the hospital was established one after another in various professional disciplines and became famous for its rigorous medical style and strict hospital management, which laid a solid foundation for the hospital's future comprehensive development. Through the unremitting efforts of several generations of Youyi people, the hospital construction has developed rapidly, the comprehensive strength has been increasing, and it has developed into a large-scale comprehensive hospital with complete departments, various specialties, advanced equipment, excellent service, combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and with the function of Grade 3A, which has an important influence on the capital's medical and health care system, and it has made a positive contribution to the cause of the motherland's medical and health care as well as to the health of the general public.