On the occasion of the second Chinese Doctors' Day, on August 18, Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Governor of Sichuan Province, went to some medical and health institutions in the province to address leadership concerns on medical staff. Yin sent Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee Peng Qinghua's respects to these staff and on behalf of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the Sichuan Provincial People’s Government thanked medical workers in the province for their great contributions to the economic and social development of Sichuan, especially the development of health-care undertakings, as well as extended festival greetings and best wishes to them.  

　　Yin visited some medical staff at the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), where he exchanged ideas with respected senior TCM physicians such as Ai Rudi and Zhang Farong, and young and middle-aged physician representatives, encouraging them to carry forward, use and develop traditional medicine, and actively promote the development of TCM to better improve people's health and well-being. At Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Yin visited medical staff of pediatrics department, neurosurgery department, emergency center, and psychosomatic medical center. He expressed appreciation to the devotion of these staff, hoping that the staff can keep strengthening professional studies, improving professional skills, and enhancing scientific and technological support, so as to make greater efforts to alleviate illness pain and improve health of the people. Yin also visited medical staff of general diagnosis department and prophylactic vaccination department at Xinhua Shaocheng Community Health Service Center, Qingyang District, Chengdu. He inquired about the services provided to residents in the community to ensure their health, and required to put prevention first, further improve and implement the health-care management and services in the community, and comprehensively enhance the health of the people.

　　At every place he visited, Yin asked about the working and living conditions of medical staff in detail and listened to their opinions and suggestions on health-care cause. Yin said that in recent years, the medical and health workers in the province have earnestly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on health care, promoted the humanitarian spirit of saving the dying and healing the wounded and wholeheartedly protected the health of the people, thus playing an important role and making significant contributions in disease prevention and treatment, fighting against major natural disasters, and promoting the development of medical science and technology. He also urged medical staff to deeply implement the central and provincial party committees' important plans for health care, and enhance the service awareness and ability, so as to better meet the people's growing health needs and make greater contributions to the development of a "healthy Sichuan". He also said that party committees and governments at all levels across the province should pay more attention to medical staff, create good working conditions, help solve practical problems, actively create a social atmosphere of respecting doctors and valuing health care, and make joint efforts to bring the health development into a new era in Sichuan.

　　Yin was accompanied by Vice Governor Wang Yihong, Secretary General Zhang Shan of the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and heads of provincial departments when visiting the medical and health institutions.