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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhua) — The heroic act of Chinese doctor Zhang Junqiao demonstrates the deep friendship between China and Africa and the extraordinary devotion, dedication, love and fighting spirit of Chinese medical teams, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.
The head of the 27th Chinese medical team in Tanzania, anesthesiologist Zhang Junqiao, died on June 15 while rescuing a drowning woman off the coast of Dar es Salaam.
“We express our sincere condolences to Zhang Junqiao’s family and mourn the loss of an outstanding member of China’s medical teams providing aid to Africa,” the diplomat said.
Guo Jiakun noted that it has been 62 years since China sent its first medical team to Africa in 1963, and nearly 57 years since China began sending medical teams to Tanzania.
The kind and highly skilled members of the Chinese medical teams have treated and saved many local residents and trained local teams, Guo Jiakun said, adding that the work of the Chinese medical teams has made a great contribution to strengthening the friendship between China and African countries.
“The people of China and Africa will never forget this. History will not forget this either,” the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry summed up. –0–