Tourism, Rx for the rich

By Shan Juan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-06-04 08:05

Patients from Russia are treated with traditional acupuncture, tuina massage and fire cupping at No 2 Affiliated Hospital at Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The hospital treated more than 300 foreign patients last year, 80 percent of them from Russia. Photos by Wang Jianwei / Xinhua

Zaets Andrey, 27, undergoes acupuncture at No 2 Affiliated Hospital. He has suffered from spastic quadriplegia for three years, but his mother, Hernova Ludmula, said his condition was improving after 20 days' treatment. Andrey is from Sochi, Russia, on the Black Sea.