Chinese President Xi Jinping made the remarks in a letter to the 19th Chinese medical team sent to the Central African Republic.
Chinese President Xi Jinping encouraged members of a Chinese medical team sent to Africa on Thursday to benefit local people with their medical expertise and medical ethics, as well as to better represent China to the rest of the world through their concrete actions.
Xi, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in a letter to the 19th Chinese medical team sent to the Central African Republic.
Xi praised the medical personnel in his letter for overcoming obstacles in work and life to provide services to the local people, saying that they are not only saving lives but also building friendship.
He expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all those who are or were on China’s international medical aid missions, as the country marks the 60th anniversary of sending its first medical aid team abroad.
The Chinese people value peace and life, as evidenced by their efforts in international medical assistance, according to the letter.
According to the letter, Xi urged medical personnel to use their medical expertise and ethics to benefit local people and better represent China to the world through their concrete actions, thereby making greater contributions to the building of a global community of health for all.
The team’s 11 members had written to Xi to report on how they had served local people there, expressing their desire to contribute to the creation of a global community of health for all.
Over the last six decades, China has sent 30,000-person medical teams to 76 countries and regions on five continents, providing 290 million diagnoses and treatments to locals. Chinese medical teams are currently working at 115 locations in 56 countries, nearly half of which are in remote areas with harsh conditions.