Introduction

Doctors Cao Hehuai and Ke Dongfeng are a couple working at a village clinic in central China’s Jiangxi Province. In recent weeks, they and their small clinic, which is only staffed by them, have become a lifeline for about 3,000 villagers amid a surge of COVID-19 cases. With their three decades of experience working as village doctors, the pair have been doing well in their battle against the pandemic, and thanks to them, the villagers have weathered an initial wave of infections well. While bracing for a new wave of cases during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday at the end of January, Dr. Cao says rural China “will soon see the light at the end of the tunnel” in the fight against COVID-19.