New kind of treatment

Rizhao, in Shandong province, was recently the venue for a key two-day medical conference on a relatively new subject - intervention radiology - which is helping save lives in many difficult cases.

The conference, organized by the Aerospace Center Hospital based in Beijing, has been held five times since 2008.

This year's event was attended by nearly 500 doctors who are engaged in interventional therapy, including more than 100 well-known experts and scholars.