A group photo of the representatives at the Lifeline Express project

Cui Li, vice-minister of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), attended the 20th Anniversary (1997-2017) Symposium of Lifeline Express project in Beijing on June 13.

Cui gave high praise to the Lifeline Express project and reviewed the project's achievements over the past 20 years. 

Lifeline Express is a project focused on providing better medical services for people living in poverty, especially in destitute areas. The project originated in Hong Kong and provides services for people in the mainland's poor areas. 

Cui hopes that the Lifeline Express project can catch the new tread of global health development, meet the needs of people's health and respond to new challenges of health, making its contribution to the health cooperation of Belt and Road Initiative.

More than 200 doctors, patients, and representatives from groups, enterprises, and mobile hospitals took part in the symposium.

Lifeline Express, which was founded in 1997, is the sole mobile Eye-Hospital Train providing free surgical operations in China. It is also a base for training eye doctors, an NGO committed to help needy cataract victims, and a loving charity group.