The Children’s Medical Foundation (CMF) was established in 1995 (as Project HOPE Hong Kong) as a part of the US charitable organization Project HOPE, a non-profit international health education foundation.

CMF’s first project was to help establish the Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre – the first state-of-the-art children’s hospital in China. Since then, CMF has continued to develop and implement programs in China to improve health care available to children. These programs include:

• The establishment of 30 Neonatal Intensive Care Units to treat severely ill newborn babies in rural, underserved areas in China.
• The Indigent Children’s Fund which has funded the life saving surgeries of 173 orphaned or poor children.
• The Western Training Program (until 2008) which provides one-year intensive pediatric training for doctors and nurses in socio-economically disadvantaged provinces in China.
• The HIV Peer Education Program (until 2007) which educated all children attending middle and high school level education in Shanghai, as well as students in San Ming, Fujian Province and Bei Hai, Guangxi Province.
• The establishment of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre at the Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre.