Dreamers and doers

Thanks to help from a French expert, doctors in Northwest China are leading the fight against a hepatic disease. Fang Aiqing reports.

It is now 21 years since Georges Andre Mantion, 71, first visited Urumqi in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

The French surgeon, an academician at the French Academy of Medicine and a recent winner of the Chinese government's Friendship Award, is an expert in the treatment of digestive tumors, and he is a specialist in treating alveolar echinococcosis, or AE.