China's Barefoot Doctors

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In March 1968, Chairman Mao officially launched a scheme to improve healthcare in rural China, by giving thousands of people basic medical training and sending them out to work in villages. They were known as the “barefoot doctors”.

Gordon Liu is a Professor of Economics at Peking University. He tells Lucy Burns about his memories of working as a barefoot doctor.

Picture: Gordon Liu

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0:24.9	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.5	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.5	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds.
0:58.9	Hi and thanks for downloading Witness the history Podcast from the BBC World Service.
1:04.6	I'm Lucy Burns and today I'm taking you back to China in March 1968,
1:09.9	where Chairman Mao officially launched a scheme to provide health care to rural areas
1:14.8	by giving thousands of people basic medical training and sending them out to work in villages.
1:20.6	They were known as the barefoot doctors.
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