Launch Ceremony

On June 25th, The Chinese People''s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and China-India Friendship Association (CIFA) jointly held the Ceremony to Launch the China India Joint Medical Mission Ⅲ & Photo Exhibition to Mark the 74th Anniversary of Arrival of Aid-China India Medical Mission in the CPAFFC. Jiang Zhenghua, the former Vice-Chairman of Standing Committee of the National People''s Congress, President of CIFA, Feng Zuoku, Vice-President of the CPAFFC, Executive Vice-President of CIFA, the representatives from the Indian Embassy in China, members of the China India Joint Medical Mission, council members of CIFA and other Chinese and Indian guests were present.

vice-president Feng Zuoku at the exhibition

This year is the “Year of China-India Friendship & Cooperation”，which was jointly declared by Hu Jingtao, the president of China and Manmohan Singh, the premier of India. This medical mission is one of the series of the national programs of “Year of China-India Friendship & Cooperation” which issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. It is combined by the Indian doctors visiting China to hold free clinic and the Chinese doctors visiting India to hold free clinic.

the donation

This year is also at the time of 60th anniversary of establishment of CIFA and 70th anniversary of the death of aid- China doctor, the old friend of the Chinese people, Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis. For the above reasons, the CPAFFC and CIFA jointly held Photo Exhibition to Mark the 74th Anniversary of Arrival of Aid-China India Medical Mission.
This medical mission assembled 17 Chinese and Indian doctors of departments of surgery, gynecology and stomatology. The medical mission had held free clinic in Hebei Province from June 26th to 30th. In year 2008 and 2010, the CPAFFC and CIFA organized China India Joint Medical Mission twice which composed by excellent Chinese and Indian doctors. They went to the rural areas in China and India, to provide medical service and donate medicines, and left popular stories for China-India people-to-people contacts. 

In order to make the deeds of Indian aid-China mission known by more people, at the moment of 74th anniversary of arrival of Aid-China India Medical Mission, the CPAFFC and CIFA jointly produced a theme photo exhibition, which revealed the glorious achievements the India Medical Mission had made through some precious historical pictures.

treatment