Published on: 2026-08-20
Source: People’s Republic of China — Translation
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Den Yun has already lived and worked for 63 years in Ulugqat County of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. In 1963, when he was 23 years old, he graduated from a medical college in Yangzhou and firmly decided to go to the westernmost corner of China — Ulugqat County. “They need doctors there,” he said at the time. Back then, the county hospital consisted of several adobe houses, and there were only three doctors, including himself.
Ulugchat is a vast and sparsely populated area where herders faced an acute shortage of medical care and medicines. In his youth, he rode to all the villages on horseback with a first-aid kit on his back. In the winter of 1971, a two-year-old child urgently needed a skin graft due to burns; the doctor without hesitation took 13 pieces of skin the size of postage stamps from his own leg and transplanted them to the child. In addition, he donated blood more than 30 times, giving a total of over 7,000 milliliters. “I lost only a little blood, and the patients gained life!”
For several decades, he had multiple opportunities to return to his homeland, but he consistently chose to stay. After retiring, he could have moved to Jiangsu province and spent his old age there, but he still came to the hospital punctually every day – seeing patients, making rounds, and supervising interns.
Denyun has been awarded many honorary titles, but he rarely talks about the awards — his thoughts are always with the patients. When asked if he regretted anything, he firmly replied: “If there is a next life, I will become a doctor again, come to Pamir again, to Ulugqat County, and treat people of all nationalities.”
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