Rural doctor is village lifeline

Rural doctor Ding Yousheng treats a boy's wound in Sanshan village, East China's Jiangxi province, Sept 17, 2012. Ding, a doctor disabled in his right foot due to polio, founded the only clinic for 3,000 people in the village in 1983. In 1999, he broke his left leg after returning at night from saving an old man in the neighboring village with high fever. Ding also took over the business of a local orchard in 1995, employing 130 villagers and 12 people with disabilities. [Photo/Xinhua]

Ding Yousheng walks through a filed on his way for home visits, Sept 18, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]