Founded in 1931, Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital is a large comprehensive Grade III A-level public hospital directly under the provincial government which integrates medical treatment, first aid, teaching, scientific research, health care and rehabilitation. It is the Third Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, the Affiliated Hospital of Northwest University of technology and the affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical College.

The hospital covers an area of 106,000 square meters and a construction area of 315,000 square meters. It has 13 specialized sections, 10 medical centers, 75 clinical medical technology departments, 21 national key specialties, provincial key disciplines and provincial advantageous medical specialties, 4 clinical medical research centers for breast diseases, elderly diseases, children's internal diseases and bone and joint diseases in Shaanxi Province, 4 provincial sub centers, 1 international cooperation base, 1 Key Laboratory and 1 Engineering Center. Xi-Xian hospital area of Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, which is planned to be put into operation in the first half of 2022, 1000-1500 beds and a total investment of 2.6 billion RMB.
At present, there are more than 4,960 employees, including 651 senior technicians, 1,005 doctoral and master's degree holders, 119 doctoral and master's tutors, 3,079 open beds, an annual outpatient volume of 1.868 million, a discharge volume of 124,000, and an operation volume of 58,500 operations. It has undertaken 896 national and provincial major scientific research projects and won more than 100 scientific and technological achievement awards from governments at all levels. It has carried out academic exchanges and cooperation with more than 20 countries and regions around the world, such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Israel and Australia.
The hospital has 128-layers,44-ring PET-CT, 3T full digital nuclear magnetic resonance, 640-layers film quantum CT, positron emission SPECT, high-grade linear accelerator and other large-scale equipment. The fourth generation Da Vinci surgical robot, 3D high-definition fluorescent 4K endoscopic system, minimally invasive surgical platform, the first standard composite operating room in Northwest China, leading the national trauma resuscitation unit, series of advanced mapping and surgical navigation equipment, as well as mammoscopy, 3D molybdenum target imaging system, breast molecular imaging instrument, magnetic resonance breast positioning and puncture system ABVS breast elastography system has built a breast disease diagnosis and treatment center with top technical ability.
It has long undertaken medical aid to Sudan and Malawi and "group" medical aid to Tibet, carried out emergency rescue for major events and nursing homes for patients with advanced cancer, carried out the construction of healthy Shaanxi and healthy hospitals, hierarchical diagnosis and treatment, medical integration and targeted poverty alleviation, and demonstrated the public welfare of people's hospitals.