China dispatched its first medical team to Algeria in 1963

China dispatched its first medical team to Algeria in 1963, marking the beginning of China’s medical assistance to Africa. The medical teams have been welcomed by the governments and the people in the countries given assistance, and are regarded as a model of South-South cooperation.

This photo shows Li Xudong (R), a urologist from one of the medical teams, doing surgery on a patient at the Omdurman Friendship Hospital in Sudan, October 11, 2013. (People’s Daily/Wu Wenbin)