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Increasing healthcare costs, low accessibility to medical care, low quality of medical services, over-prescribing drugs, asymmetric information disparities, and lack of trust between patient-doctor, are now affecting the health care system of China. To counter the critical situation, China has launched far-reaching reforms, with a focus on health care abroad, where experienced companies have long been committed to building a sustainable healthcare system, especially with international standards with, as has recently been the case in China. Reforms and regulations aimed at facilitating and enabling entry into the Chinese private hospital sector favor companies from different countries, especially Germany. Germany's activities in China look back on a long history, and thus the first German companies have already established themselves on the Chinese market. Nonetheless, German activities in the private hospital sector are still in their infancy due to their recent history of development in China. It therefore needs to be determined to what extent the already established German-Chinese cooperations that contribute to the development of the private hospital sector are marked by success and whether cooperation projects of this kind can be carried out. Although it is still in its infancy, the future of the Chinese private-sector sector is promising for foreign companies and, not least, will be faced with the task of long-term adaptation to Chinese regulations. Last but not least, it is not only the goodwill of German companies that determines whether long-term interest in China’s health care market share succeeds or not.