China and Arab states strengthen medical exchanges

A league for cooperation in healthcare between China and Arab states will be established to promote technological and personnel exchanges, officials said on Friday.

The league will be headquartered in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It forms part of a wider exchange planned between China and Arab nations in the health sector, China's National Health and Family Planning Commission announced on Friday.

The announcement was made during the first China-Arab States Forum on Health Cooperation held from Thursday through Sunday in Yinchuan. The Arab states included in the cooperation are the 21 nations of the Arab League.