China-Mongolia Friendship Bringing Light Tour

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mongolia and the China-Mongolia Friendship Year, a delegation led by CPAFFC President Chen Haosu made a China-Mongolia Friendship Brining Light Tour in Mongolia from June 22 to 28. The delegation, as part of the entourage of He Guoqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and secretary of CPC’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection who was on a visit to Mongolia, was composed of a Chinese medical team that gave free cataract surgery to about 50 Mongolian patients during its trip. He Guoqiang attended the inaugural ceremony of the China-Mongolia Friendship Bringing Light Tour and presented medical sterilization equipment as a gift to the Mongolian side.

Highly Praised by Leaders of the Two Countries

In their meetings with He Guoqiang, Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj, Prime Minister Sanjaa Bayar and Chairman of the State Great Hural Damdin Demberel all expressed their thanks to the delegation of “China-Mongolia Friendship Bringing Light Tour” for bringing light to ordinary Mongolian patients. Speaking at the meeting to welcome his delegation, He Guoqiang expressed the belief that the medical team that came with him would try its best to cure the Mongolian patients suffering from cataract. He said, such activities conducive to friendship and benefiting the people of the two countries would be carried out better and more frequently in the future. At the inaugural ceremony of the activity, He Guoqiang expressed his sincere solicitude to all the members of the medical team and praised their efforts for China-Mongolia friendship.

Sambuu Lambaa, Mongolian minister of health, said, this “bringing light tour” was of great significance, which has not only brought tangible benefits to the ordinary Mongolian people, but also let them experience deeply the friendship of the Chinese people. Dagva Tsakhilgaan, president of the Federation of Mongolian Peace and Friendship Organizations (FMPFO), said, the “Bringing Light Tour” not only brings light to dozens of patients, but also to Mongolia-China friendship, reflecting true friendship between the people of the two countries.

Welcomed by the Mongolian People

The doctors of the medical team with exemplary medical ethics, first-rate skills and the most advanced medical equipment successfully performed free cataract surgery for about 50 Mongolian patients, among whom the oldest was 93 and the youngest only six months. The Chinese doctors’ selfless spirit and hard work won respect from their Mongolian colleagues and patients. A patient had suffered traumas before the operation. The doctors gave him examination on three consecutive days to ensure the success of the operation. The Mongolian patients expressed their gratitude in different ways to the Chinese doctors. After seeing light again, some patients in beautiful Mongolian national costumes came to the hospital to look for the doctors who had operated on their eyes and presented flowers to them. An eighty-year-old patient with flowers in his hands said choking with sobs: “You have enabled me to see light again. I will forever remember the Chinese doctor’s kindness to me.” The grandma of the six-month-old baby who had suffered from congenital cataract said to the doctors with emotion: “Thank you for having cured my grandson of his cataract. When he grows up, I will ask him to go to Beijing to see you, the Chinese doctors who have cured him.”

Enhancing Cooperation between the Friendship Organizations of the Two Countries

The “Bringing Light Tour” got support from the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Mongolian Ministry of Health, the FMPFO and the Mongolia-China Friendship Association (MCFA). Through this activity, the friendship organizations of the two countries have strengthened exchanges and established closer cooperation.

The delegation visited the International Children’s Friendship Village managed by a council member of the MCFA in Ulan Bator, where they chatted with the teachers and children. CPAFFC President Chen Haosu talked about the friendship between China and Mongolia and the purpose of the delegation’s visit to Mongolia. The Mongolian children spoke in Chinese about their village. When Lam Kin Chung, member of the delegation and council member of the CPAFFC, learnt that the Mongolian-Russian- Chinese Children’s Olympic Games to be held in September this year lacked funds, he at once decided to donate 50,000 RMB yuan to the project. Dagva Tsakhilgaan, president of the FMPFO, said, the Mongolian side would take the China-Mongolia Friendship Year as an opportunity to expand exchanges with the CPAFFC and do more work to further increase exchanges between China and Mongolia in the cultural and social areas, particularly between the young people of the two countries so as to foster successors to the cause of China-Mongolia friendship and consolidate the popular basis for China- Mongolia friendship.

Chinese medical personnel performing an operation at Ulan Bator No. 1 Hospital