"The investment opportunities in the hospital sector tend to emerge in waves. It is critical that players should be ready to make the investment when the right window of opportunity opens."

Chun Wu, partner and managing director of BCG Greater China, said the full opening-up of China's hospital market is providing huge opportunities for foreign investors.

"Many signals show China has realized the importance of improving cooperation with foreign companies through opening-up, especially in high-tech industries, and it is also advancing the initiatives."

Wang Zhile, president of the Beijing New Century Academy on Transnational Corporations.

(China Daily European Weekly 06/28/2013 page18)