A missionary, a healer and a friend of China

A doctor from faraway Massachusetts is loved by people in Fujian even after more than a century

American missionary doctor Edward Lydston Bliss landed in China in 1892, and spent the next 40 years in Shaowu, a remote mountainous area in Fujian province, treating the sick and helping build a hospital.

On June 28 last year, President Xi Jinping, in a congratulatory message to the "Bond with Kuliang: 2023 China-US People-to-People Friendship Forum", noted the fact that the last words of Bliss before death were "I love the Chinese".

One year later, on June 28, 2024, an exhibition dedicated to Bliss officially opened to the public in Shaowu.