Doctor dedicates career to medical education

From beginnings in small rural hospital, surgeon built network of physician exchanges

In 2009, a renowned Tibetan living Buddha from western China's Sichuan province traveled to Qingdao so Doctor Lu Yun could perform laparoscopic surgery to remove his gallbladder.

Then a surgeon at the Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Lu learned that his patient could not receive such an operation in underdeveloped southwest China, including parts of the Tibet autonomous region, as well as Sichuan and Guizhou provinces.