/ world today news/ Since sending its first medical team to help a foreign country – in Algeria in 1963, Chinese doctors have helped deliver more than 2.07 million children and treat more than 27 million patients in that country. And this is just one of the examples from the 60-year history of China’s medical aid abroad.
A conference was recently held in Beijing to mark the 60th anniversary of the first Chinese medical teams being sent abroad. On this occasion, President Xi Jinping met with the conference participants and praised their efforts to build a common human community in health care.
Since the 1960s, Chinese medical teams have been involved in numerous rescue operations in disaster and war-torn areas. In 2011, there was a shipwreck in Tanzania that shocked the world. As a result of a three-day rescue operation, the Chinese team helped 400 injured people recover. In 2014, when the Ebola virus was raging in Africa, foreign medical teams and experts from many countries evacuated. However, the Chinese doctors who helped Guinea remained in post and became the first medical team to be awarded the Medal of the Republic by the president of that country. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, China withstood domestic difficulties and quickly dispatched 38 expert teams to 34 countries, launching the most intensive and comprehensive emergency humanitarian response in its history. The excellent expertise of Chinese medical teams has earned them high praise from the governments and societies of a number of countries. It also shows China’s responsibility.
China is currently on the path of its modernization. It is the largest developing country, but at the same time it is helping to realize modernization in other developing countries, and medical aid is part of this effort.
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