The Department of Gastroenterology of Liaocheng Second People's Hospital (Headquarter) now has 2 wards with 100 beds, annual outpatient capacity of more than 63,000 and inpatient capacity of more than 3,700 per year. The Department of Gastroenterology is at an advanced level in the province in the diagnosis and treatment of early gastrointestinal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, hepatobiliary disease, minimally invasive intervention, and diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical cases, and it is capable of carrying out gastrointestinal tract dilatation and stenting, endoscopic ligation of cirrhotic oesophageal varices, sclerotherapy and embolectomy, magnifying endoscopy, pigment endoscopy, ultrasonographic endoscopy, endoscopic submucosal dissection of early GI cancer (ESD), and submucosal tumours (SMT). ), submucosal tumour excision (ESE), transesophageal submucosal tunnel tumour resection (STER), endoscopic pancreatic sphincter dissecting (POEM), capsule endoscopy with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), ERCP pancreaticobiliary lithotripsy, biliary stent implantation, and radiofrequency ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma, among other high-level diagnostic and treatment techniques. The Department of Gastroenterology was appraised as a key clinical specialty of Shandong Province by Shandong Provincial Health Planning Commission in 2016, and was appraised as a key laboratory of Liaocheng City by Liaocheng City Health Planning Commission in 2017, and became a unit of Shandong Provincial Union of Standardised Diagnosis and Treatment of Oesophageal Diseases in 2017.It was selected as a unit of Shandong Province's Clinical Excellence Characteristic Specialty Reporting Unit in 2018, and a Gastroenterology Specialty Outpatient Clinic was set up in September 2019, and Prof. Zuo Xiuli, Director of Department of Internal Medicine, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University was invited to give lectures on gastroenterology to the public. Professor Zuo Xiuli, director of the Department of Gastroenterology at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, unveiled the Gastroesophageal Reflux Clinic, Irritable Bowel Syndrome Clinic, and Helicobacter pylori Clinic in September 2019. In 2020, our Gastroenterology Department will become the construction unit of ‘National Alliance of Early Cancer Prevention and Treatment Centres of Digestive Tract’. At present, we have reached a cooperation intention with Beijing Friendship Hospital and National Digestive Center, and plan to hold a signboard ceremony for the ‘Friendship Digestive Through Train’ and the sub-centre of Liaocheng City No.2 People's Hospital of National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Early Cancer Screening Base at the beginning of 2021. The Department of Gastroenterology will continue to uphold the purpose of serving the people, innovate working concepts and working modes, create a diagnostic and treatment centre for digestive diseases in the Jiluyu region, and continuously improve the level of medical services to escort the health of the people in the surrounding areas!

The newest location of Gastroenterology outpatient clinic (Headquarter): East Area, 2F, Outpatient Clinic Building, Liaocheng Second People's Hospital (No.306, Health Street, Linqing City, Shandong Province, China) (adjacent to the staircase).

The latest location of wards of Gastroenterology (Headquarter): 7th Floor (1st Ward of Gastroenterology) and 8th Floor (2nd Ward of Gastroenterology), Internal Medicine Complex Building, Liaocheng Second People's Hospital (No.306, Health Street, Linqing City, Shandong Province).