Providing medical aid to other countries is an important part of China’s foreign aid work. It is also a shining example of China’s commitment to building a global health community for all. This year marks the 60th anniversary of China sending its first medical aid team overseas. Since China sent the first foreign medical team to Algeria in 1963, a total of 30,000 medical workers have treated 290 million local patients in 76 countries and regions on five, continents.

For the past six decades, Chinese medical teams have worked in Asia, Africa and Latin America, home to many developing countries. Some medical professionals have been posted abroad six times and spent a total of 12 years abroad. Some have carried the torch of their grandparents and parents as members of medical teams.

Despite the harsh conditions, they have performed medical miracles and their good hearts as professionals have made them “welcome guests” among the local population. They are living examples of the spirit of Chinese medical teams with tenacity, dedication, dedication to saving lives and love that knows no bounds. And they left many touching stories behind.

For the past six decades, selfless and well-trained Chinese obstetricians and gynecologists have welcomed new births and saved many mothers and newborns from difficult circumstances. In Algeria alone, doctors have delivered around 2.07 million babies. The OB/GYN teams introduced locals to new technologies and philosophies that have significantly improved maternal and child health.

Over the past six decades, Chinese medical teams have implemented the Brightness Action program in more than 30 countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and North America, and the Caribbean, providing free cataract surgery to tens of thousands of patients. In Roseau, the capital of Dominica, Mrs Edward, in her 80s, after an operation that restored her sight, said emotionally that it had been a long time since she had seen mountains in the distance, clouds in the sky and grass and flowers in the garden and thanked the Chinese doctors for helping her see again.

China has never failed in examining the response to major pandemics. China’s artemisinin-based combination therapy has saved millions of lives around the world. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, around 240 million people have benefited from the therapy. As the Ebola virus ravaged Africa in 2014, China dispatched more than 1,200 medical workers to affected countries, treated more than 800 patients and provided public health training to more than 12,000 workers.

Countries and people who have received this aid have praised China’s efforts. After the start of COVID-19, China dispatched 37 expert teams to 34 countries, shipped more than 2.2 billion COVID-19 vaccines to more than 120 countries and international organizations, and shipped several hundred billion pieces of anti-inflammatory supplies -COVID to 153 countries and 15 international organizations. This was the fastest and largest humanitarian relief effort ever undertaken since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in. It demonstrated China’s sense of responsibility as an important country.

Over the past six decades, China has established partnerships with 46 hospitals in 41 countries and helped 22 countries set up 25 key specialised centers to institutionalize and systematize the use of medical and technological support. Chinese medical teams have trained more than 20,000 local health workers through clinical classes, surgical demonstrations and remote training. This has filled thousands of technology gaps, improved local medical and technological standards, and helped local people build their own medical equipment.

The past six decades have clearly shown that medical aid is a way for China to help friends. Our medical aid is unbound and free from geopolitical calculations. It is more durable and purer than gold. The 60th anniversary is not a goal, but a new beginning. As we speak, Chinese medical teams are working around the clock at 115 locations in 56 countries around the world.

As President Xi Jinping stressed in his reply letter to the Chinese medical teams in the Central African Republic, the Chinese people love peace and value life, which is evident in their efforts to seek international medical assistance. China will continue to provide medical assistance to, champion the health and well-being of people in developing countries, and pursue the vision of building a global health community for all.