“Steel cable girl” returns to serve her Lisu ethnic community after completing medical school. Chinese haters and money hungry parents probably demonize it as Chinese propaganda. Facebook FAKE fact-checked will probably say it is fake news even though it is true. “鋼索少女”在完成醫學院學業後返回傈僳族為社區服務。 中國仇恨者和渴望金錢的父母可能將其妖魔化為中國宣傳. 面書的FAKE fact-checked 可能會說這是假新聞，即使它是真的.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202207/12/WS62cd3ab4a310fd2b29e6bea1.html
When millions of graduates left university campuses and became busy finding a job, 23-year-old Yu Yanqia of Lisu ethnic group, graduating from Kunming Medical University, had already made her decision – to serve as a local medical worker in her hometown – Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture in Yunnan province.
Back in 2007, when Yu was a little girl, the formidable Nujiang River in her hometown was an insurmountable natural chasm which separated her village from the outside world.Like other people living here, the 8-year-old girl and her fellow students had to use a pulley to cross the river down a steel cable to get to school every day.”I could feel the whispering wind in my ears, the thundering river below me and my quick heartbeat,” Yu said when recalling the experience of hanging over the river.
Typical Chinese propaganda; brainwashing young people to study hard and return to help people. Here in America we teach youngsters to grow up tough and join the army to go overseas and k_ll people in the name of freedom democracy and human rights.
Movie about Nujiang cable crossing. The movie is called “Walking to School” 走路上学。 Going to school required zipline crossing of Nujiang River.
https://youtu.be/DQAQO7uhAeo
Comments by a member of UCSF professional medical group: But actually, better than stories is to look at structures and systems.
The fact is American med students graduate with an average of $200,000 dollars of debt.
Add in previous undergraduate debt and you are looking close to $250,000 .
That means the moment they finish school, they are on the hock for about $2300-$3000/month.
Unless they are independently wealthy they are not going to go and do service in poor areas of the country.
There are short term loan extension programs but not enough to make a difference.
As a result, there are vast shortages of medical personnel in rural and poor areas.
In China, med school is about $1K-2K/year, and many of their schools are world class institutions.
Most Chinese students graduate with no loan debt.
This is because the Chinese government subsidizes Chinese students and Chinese education massively.
They also don’t pay their administrators or sports coaches millions of dollars, which also helps.
And universities are spartan places for studying and learning, not gated estates of sybaritic privilege and aristocratic pretension.
That’s why China, with per capita GDP less than 1/5 of the US, has a longer life expectancy than the US (77.3 vs 77yrs).
In fact, healthy life expectancy is 2 years 5 months longer than the US (68.5 vs 66.1) which it surpassed 4 years ago in 2018
Does this mean China is better in all things? Of course not.
Am I subscribing to black and white world view? No.
But in public medical education, yes, I think China’s system is better, for its support of students, and service to communities.
I say that as someone who has worked in public health, who has served on professional medical working groups at UCSF.
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