For that reason, the American consul stationed in Guangzhou has to send personnel south on inspection tours to Taishan. The People's Hospital in Taishan City is the only county-level hospital which is allowed to undertake health examinations for emigration. The existence of the hospital spares the Taishanese the trouble of journeying to Guangzhou for health certification.
為此，駐廣州的美國領事館，每年總要派員南下台山視察；台山市的人民醫院，更是大陸唯一被批准做「出國體檢」的縣級醫院，免除了台山人去廣州做體檢的奔波之苦。