On June 9, a meeting between PUMCH, Guizhou Provincial Health Commission and the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University was held online. Du Bin, Vice President of PUMCH, and Xiao Minglong, a leader at the level of Deputy Director-General from Guizhou Provincial Health Commission, attended and spoke at the meeting. High on its agenda were science and technology innovation, talent training, nursing management and Party cultural building.

The cooperation between PUMCH, the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital and the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University has continued with increasing momentum since 2020 under the support of Guizhou Provincial Health Commission. In 2023, upon the conclusion of the “Two Sessions” of China, PUMCH President Zhang Shuyang, who is the 14th National People’s Congress delegate from Guizhou Province, led a team to Guizhou for research and survey and signed the “Framework Agreement on Cooperation in Building a Regional Medical Center between the People’s Government of Guizhou Province and Peking Union Medical College Hospital”. Subsequently, the hospital signed an implementation agreement with the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission and backed it up with a series of pragmatic measures, such as setting up a taskforce, making field trips and doing surveys, providing training and guidance, and carrying out talks and exchanges, all geared towards translating PUMCH’s “plan” to help Guizhou into a more specific “roadmap”.

The meeting held on June 9 was part of the pragmatic efforts that PUMCH made to provide healthcare assistance to Guizhou. In the meeting, Chen Tengxiang, Vice President of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, Wu Qiang, Vice President of Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, and Yu Changyin, President of the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, reported on assistance and joint efforts needed on such fronts as specialty building, talent training, Party cultural building, and scientific research cooperation. Xu Wenyuan, a Level I Division Rank OfficialSection Chief-level official from the Planning and Information Division of Guizhou Provincial Health Commission, briefed the audience about the progresses of cooperation between the two sides in rare diseases.

Personnel from the Planning and Development Office, the General Office of the CPC Committee, the Department of Education, the Department of Nursing, the Department of Scientific Research, and the Publicity Department of PUMCH responded to the cooperation intentions and needs for support in scientific research, teaching, nursing and Party cultural building proposed by the Guizhou Provincial Health Commission and the three hospitals mentioned above.

PUMCH Vice President Du Bin said that the two visits to Guizhou led by PUMCH leaders laid a solid foundation for the partnership between Guizhou and PUMCH and that this meeting was a concrete measure to flesh out the cooperation intentions of both sides. Xiao Minglong pointed out that the meeting was about facilitating cooperation and also mutual learning and exchanges; down the road, both sides would work together to fill in the details about the future tasks and assignments, the cooperation pathways, the coordination mechanism, and the synchronization of scheduling and provide the necessary support according to the plan.

Written by Chen Xiao

Photographed by Sun Liang

Translated by Liu Haiyan

Edited by Xiao Xiong and Wang Yao