Based on the macroanalysis of the unbalanced development of the "demand side" and the "supply side" of clinical medicine in China, this paper elucidates the stakeholders, resources, and ecosystem of the strategic scientific and technological capacity-building and calls for a larger coverage, smoother supply chain, and more sustainable ecosystem to ensure the development of clinical medicine. Furthermore, focusing on the establishment and development of clinical reproductive health in China, the authors introduce the strategic scientific and technological capacity-building of reproductive medicine in Peking University Third Hospital, with an attempt to inform similar efforts in other fields and even the whole clinical medicine in China.
Keywords: capacity-building; clinical medicine; reproductive medicine; scientific and technological progress.