The First People’s Hospital of Changzhou (also The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University), situated in the centre of Changzhou — an ancient city in south of the Yangtze River, which was established in 1918. After more than a hundred years of construction and development, it has been built to a 3A general hospital with a wide range of departments, strong medical expertise, advanced medical facilities, and high academic level. It is a hospital with an integration of medical cares, medical education, and medical research. In 1995, it was approved as the Third Hospital affiliated to Soochow Medical School.In 2000, it was officially renamed as The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University.

The total area of the hospital is about 75,000 m2, with a floor space of 320,000 m2 approximately. Currently, the hospital has 2,980registeredbeds for the patients, and 2,732have been applied. With the annual number of outpatient and emergency visits of 3.34million, the annual number of discharges is 14,8600, and the annual number of surgery is 67,353. At present, the total number of staff members is 3,943, including 344 professors and chief physicians, 645 associate professors and associate chief physicians. Among the staff, 220 persons with Doctor Degree and 999 persons with Master Degree, 77.42% of the physicians have master degree or higher level of education.

Constructing the basis of specialties ,developing the medical techniques

^{The hospital has 45 clinical departments, 7 medical technology departments, 2 scientific research institutions and a health management centre. In 2016, Oncology has been prized as Provincial Team of Medical Innovation (A Level). In 2022, Cancer Therapeutics was authorized as provincial key medical specialty of the 14th 5-year plan. Apart from that, Oncology,Neurosurgery, Medical Imaging, Nuclear Medicine are the municipal clinical medical centres. Endocrinology & Metabolism,Cardiology, Hematology, Nephrology, Respiratory Department}，General Surgery,Orthopedics,Cardiothoracic Surgery,Urology are the municipal key specialties. Urology,  Gastroenterology, Cardiothoracic Surgery,Neurosurgery, Hematology, Oncology, General Surgery, Medical Imaging,Clinical Laboratory, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Neurology, ICU, Pathology, Nephrology, Endocrinology & Metabolism,Radiotherapy, Cardiology,  Rheumatology, Dermatology are 21 provincial key clinical departments.