RESUMO
Private Hospitals are lawful medical institutions which are responsible for their own management decisions,profits and losses.They aim at making profits but also pay much attention to the unification of social benefit and economic benefit.Taking the Shanghai Private Hospitals as an example,by data collection,questionnaire survey and interviews from general public and hospital administrators,it is concluded the overall development of Shanghai Private Hospitals is far from satisfaction.Private Hospitals must define their medical concepts and market orientation for long-term development,and strengthen the monitoring system and attain public′s trust for their healthy development.Since China has a huge demand for medical service,private hospitals will surely have a bright future as long as capturing the market and holding the faith of "serving for patients,and benefiting the society".