Launched in Tianjin
A health check-up in a city you know.
For people who once studied, worked or lived in China, Second Home Action pairs clinical care with a return to a city you know. Your companions speak your language. Your family pays their share at actual cost, nothing added.
Who it is for
This is a specific invitation, not a general offer
The programme is narrow. That is what lets us promise something concrete about how you will be looked after.
You are a fit if
- You studied, worked, taught or ran a business in China — Tianjin especially, but anywhere in the country counts.
- You have been meaning to come back for years, and a health matter finally gave you the reason.
- You want your partner, children or parents with you, without paying a second service charge for them.
- You value a transparent itemised bill over a tidy all-inclusive package price.
Probably not a fit
- You need emergency or acute care that cannot wait for a 30-day planning window.
- You are looking for a low-cost alternative to a procedure your home system will fund for free.
- You want us to promise an outcome. We coordinate; we do not treat, and we do not sell certainty.
Four journeys
Every journey starts from one of these four
Prices below are the actual-cost side of the ledger — what you pay providers. The TGCP service fee sits on a separate bill and is charged once per journey.
| Duration | Programme costs (at actual) | Typically | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Return Check-up 3–4 days | Screening — price quoted on enquiry | Former students and former assignees aged 45+, travelling alone or as a couple | Easiest first step — the lightest way back |
| Treatment & Reunion 7–14 days | Treatment paid direct to hospital by case, plus hotel and car | Dental implants, joint replacement, deeper chronic-care programmes | Full treatment journey — longer stay, deeper care |
| Recovery & Roots 7–14 days | Wellness programme — price quoted on enquiry | Travellers wanting TCM recovery, with partners joining | Wellness & belonging — proven demand among foreign patients |
| The Whole Family Returns 10–14 days | Combined family programme costs; largest overall | Cross-border families, returnees bringing children to China | Whole-family return — the natural next step for families |
Programmes combine freely. A fourteen-day plan commonly mixes clinical blocks from two programmes with a cultural route running underneath.
Sample itinerary
Day by day
The four-day Return Check-up is plotted so that the clinical part never eats the emotional part.
Arriving — the first meal back
Met at the airport with your name card and a greeting in your language. Check in near the district you once lived in. Welcome pack: old-photograph booklet, hand-drawn city map, transit card, eSIM, 24-hour emergency card. Dinner chosen around your dietary restrictions.
Screening — the fast lane
Private car to the contracted screening centre. Your companion stays with you through every station: bloods, imaging, endoscopy, all pre-scheduled so there is no queue. Rest and lunch mid-day; additional items and doctor consultation in the afternoon.
Results & reunion
Bilingual reading of your report in the morning, doctor by video or in person with your companion translating. Afternoon is yours: your old campus, your former neighbourhood, the river — arranged three weeks in advance with your written permission.
Departing — still family afterwards
Transfer to the airport. Same-day electronic settlement pack with every item documented. Then six to twelve months of structured follow-up.
Sightseeing & travel
Care, plus the city you left behind
Medical care is the reason to come; the place is the reason to stay a little longer. TGCP works with dozens of licensed travel agencies and scenic partners, so the days around your treatment are yours to explore — without you handling any logistics.
Dozens of licensed agencies
Visa letters, flights, hotels, airport pickup and city transfer are arranged through licensed travel agencies. Tour operations carry their own insurance and responsibility, clearly separated from your medical care.
Scenic partners & cultural routes
From city landmarks to the campus and street where you once lived, we plan sightseeing around your recovery windows — never against a treatment schedule.
Everyone travels at actual cost
Your companions pay their share at actual cost — nothing added. A fourteen-day trip can mix two clinical themes with a cultural route underneath.
The service fee
What the service fee actually buys
Here is exactly what the service fee covers.
- Itinerary design — programme fit, reunion route planning, pre-travel handbook
- Remote pre-consultation and translation of your existing records
- Medical coordination — facility matching, scheduling, scheduled time-slots, bilingual report session
- A named bilingual companion for the length of stay, with a 24-hour line
- Actual-cost settlement — daily receipt clearing and a settlement pack within seven days
- Six to twelve months of follow-up and lifetime health-record keeping
One service fee per journey, determined by programme duration and programme content.
Family members travelling with the organising person are never charged a second service fee. If a family member has their own treatment, that is billed at actual cost directly to the hospital.
Worked example
What a quote looks like
A mid-tier screening package, one person, no accompanying family. This is a structure illustration, not a fixed price — your quote is built from your own clinical plan.
Service fee
- Second Home Action coordination service
- One organising person · accompanying family counted at zero
- Covers everything in the six items above
One service fee
Programme costs, at actual
- Hospital — precision screening package · mid tier: quoted on enquiry
- Travel agency — hotel, three nights: quoted on enquiry
- Travel agency — airport transfer and city car: quoted on enquiry
- Travel agency — welcome and farewell meals: quoted on enquiry
- Cultural portion contracted with the travel agency
as incurred
Planning reference only. Every figure is confirmed against your treatment plan before you commit to anything.
Any surplus is refunded; any shortfall is explained line by line. "Multi-pay, multi-refund" is written into the confirmation you sign.
The five standards
What "like-family care" means operationally
Each standard below is what we commit to every guest — always, and without exception.
Always someone there
How it runs
A mother-tongue companion online 24 hours under a two-companion rota — lead companion plus emergency cover. Physically present at five moments: airport pickup, admission, consultation, discharge, departure. A remote group keeps family informed, with a daily report before 21:00 carrying three to five photos, two lines of progress and tomorrow's plan.
Owner
Life companion (lead) · medical coordinator for clinical moments · standby driver pool
Acceptance test
100% presence at all five checkpoints · 100% same-day delivery of the daily report · emergency line returned within five minutes
Never allowed
Leaving post without notice · withholding an adverse event from family · being unreachable while on duty
Staying where you used to live
How it runs
At registration we build a "China history file": the districts, campuses, employers and years. Hotels are then chosen within roughly three kilometres of that radius, balancing clinical convenience against the pull of the old neighbourhood. Higher-risk medical themes must sit within fifteen minutes of the contracted hospital.
Owner
Itinerary designer (also project manager) · supplier management
Acceptance test
100% completion of the China history file · accommodation matched to the radius, or a written reason why not
Never allowed
Selecting hotels on price alone · placing a medical-theme guest outside the hospital emergency radius
Food that tastes like home
How it runs
Dietary preferences collected thirty days before travel: religious restrictions, allergies, vegetarian, dislikes. Welcome and farewell meals matched from an established-restaurant list. Therapeutic meals tied to medical orders — diabetic and low-sodium menus prepared with the hospital nutrition department or a partner kitchen. Old-flavour visits built into the cultural route.
Owner
Life companion (lead) · medical coordinator for medical orders
Acceptance test
100% dietary questionnaire return · 100% therapeutic meals checked against medical orders
Never allowed
Any religious dietary error — a single instance ends the assignment · post-operative meals that breach the doctor's instructions
A reunion route
How it runs
Route design starts thirty days out: your campus through the international office, old colleagues through two channels of the TIECEC exchange network three weeks ahead, your former home. Routes are graded by physical capacity — after surgery we offer a drive-past version, "just to see it". Beijing, Xi'an and Hainan extensions are available when recovery allows.
Owner
Itinerary designer (route) · TIECEC secretariat (contacts) · travel agency (intercity)
Acceptance test
Route proposal confirmed by you before D-14 · 100% coverage either by successful contact or documented alternative
Never allowed
Contacting your old friends or former employer without written permission · exceeding the doctor's activity clearance after surgery
Family after you leave
How it runs
Settlement pack within seven days of departure: itemised receipts plus a bilingual discharge summary. Follow-up at day 30, 90 and 180 by the medical coordinator, updating your health record. Birthday and Lunar New Year greetings signed by your companion. Priority scheduling for a second visit, and introductions framed as a "friends returning" gathering rather than a sales pitch.
Owner
Medical coordinator (follow-up) · client operations (CRM) · life companion (personal note)
Acceptance test
Follow-up completion ≥90% · 100% settlement packs within seven days · 100% records kept current
Never allowed
Attaching efficacy claims to follow-up · more than six marketing contacts a year
What's coming
On the way
The first alumni return check-up season opens in spring 2027. A documentary series, "My Second Homeland", is being filmed with consent during the pilot year and will be released as journeys complete.
Tell us your China chapter first
We start from where you lived and when, not from a price list. Share roughly what you have in mind and we will tell you whether this programme fits.