The Chinese County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-1985 was provided by Prof. William Lavely ( Director of CITAS - China in Time and Space - Project and Associate Professor at University of Washington, Seattle, USA.)

The data were created from (1) Tabular data source; and (2) County boundary GIS data source:

(1) Tabular Data Source:

• National Directory of County-Level and Above Hospitals (Health System), Beijing: People's Public Health Press, 1985.
• National Directory of County-Level and Above Epidemiological Institutions (Health System), Beijing: People's Public Health Press, 1988.
• Encyclopedia of Chinese Hospitals, Beijing: Guangming Daily Publisher, 1989.

• Liu Chuang, Yao Xurong, and William Lavely: China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1M, County Level, 1990, published by CIESIN.

For further documentation on this dataset, visit the CITAS Web Site.