In 2013, China's State Council approved the establishment of the country's first national-level new zone for medical reform - Bo'ao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone, tasked with three missions: develop the medical tourism industry, build a model low-carbon ecological environment, and promote international cooperation and exchanges. The Pilot Zone is located on the east coast of Hainan, between Qionghai City and the Bo'ao Forum. Its land resources are extremely precious as the developable land area is 9.96km2, which is the smallest national-level new zone approved by the State Council.

To urgently launch the Pilot Zone and meet requirements of refined management, the Plan adopts a three-tier government organization (provincial, municipal and town), promotes coordination of various departments, collaboration of multi-professional teams, and full-process comprehensive planning. We focused on the policy advantages of the "four special permissions" and determined the industrial development strategy; focused on industrial needs, space, and medical population, and innovated a spatial organization model; focused on Hainan's special geographical environment, and practised the low-carbon ecological design concept; focused on special research and implementation planning, and strengthened the rationality and operability of our Plan.