January 8, 1938 (Landmarks twelfth lunar month, seventh day), Bethune rate medical team to aid China. Norman Bethune rate Canada in 1938


Bethune in the the Wutai Mountain Songyan mouth "model hospital operating room for surgery
(lssdjt.cn) American medical teams via Hong Kong, multiply The plane arrived in Wuhan. 20, 2009, Zhou Enlai met him. Bethune arrived in Yenan in the end of March. Bethune (1890-1939), the internationalist soldiers, members of the Communist Party of Canada, renowned thoracic surgery physicians.
1936, Germany, Italy, the revolution of the fascist armed intervention in Spain, with Canada Volunteers to the front line to the Spanish people against fascism. After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of China, in order to support the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people, he by Canada, the Communist Party of the United States dispatched, led a medical team to China Liberated Areas. Arrived in Yenan, shortly after leaving for the border area work. His work extremely responsible comrades extreme enthusiasm of the people for the Chinese anti-Japanese military and civilian service, superb medical technology, and trained a large number of medical cadres, has made an outstanding contribution to the liberation cause of the Chinese people. Poisoning infection due to rescue the wounded, finished in Hebei County, passed away on November 12, 1939.