Poor helped by reform of the healthcare system

Yu Xiulian is a farmer in Molou village, near the city of Zhongwei in the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Her daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in June, 2009.

Yu's family paid 60,000 yuan ($8,780) in less than one year to save daughter's life, a huge sum of money for a family of four living on a monthly income of 1,600 yuan.

"I felt my heart freeze when the doctor told me about the cost of treatment," she said.