Chinese "barefoot doctors" 赤脚医生

"On the eve of the 1949 Communist Revolution, China found itself in a situation similar to that faced by African countries today. China had estimated that there were about 40,000 physicians trained in Western and Soviet medicine in the country, serving a population of 540 million people. Worse yet, most of these physicians worked in large cities; 80 percent of the population were rural peasants."

Source: NPR, Vikki Valentine
Pictures: BaiDu