Abstract: Objective To understand the status of secondary and tertiary care capacities of hospitals in public healthe-mergencies in Beijing.Methods One hundced and fifty-three secondary and tertiary care hospitals in Beijing were surveyed by as tandardized questionnaire.Datarelated to hospital human resource and beds,emergency plan,laboratory diagnosis ca-pacity,medical treatment procedures and stockpiles of drugs were collected.Results Responses were received from 87.6% of 153 hospitals surveyed.96.3% of hospitals surveyed reported the emergency group established.Surgery beds accounted for 8.5% of all the licensed beds.93.3% of hospitals surveyed had emergency plan and none of them reported a laboratory able to isolate and identify a l.15 kinds of pathogens(vibrio cholera,infectious diarrhea,staphylococcus,salmonella,meningococcus,organic phosphorous pestic ides,brucella,influenza viruses,an thrax,H5N1 bird flu viruses,Yersinia pestis,Japanese encephalitis virus,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus,tetrame thylene-disulfonete tramine,and botulinum toxin).18.6% of the hospitals surveyed had medical treatment procedures for all 15 kinds of diseases.5.2% of them hads to redspecific drugs for treatment of 16 kinds of diseases(plague,cholera,human H5N1 bird flu,meningococcal meningitis,Japanese encephalitis,anthrax,influenza,brucellosis,infectious diarrhea,acute organop hosphorus poisonings,taphy lococcal food poisoning,salmonelleae food poisoning,tetrame thylene-disulfonetetramine poisoning,botulinum tox in poisoning,and cyanide poisoning).Conclusion Hospitals'medical treatment capacities for public healtheme rgencies should be improved.