In September 2022, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province provided a combined funding of 420,000 yuan (US $58,333) to support 3,000 women in Altay Prefecture, in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The beneficiaries would receive free screening for breast and cervical cancers (''two cancers''). 

According to Wang Guodong, Deputy Director of Altay Prefectural Health Commission and head of a medical team dispatched from Heilongjiang to Xinjiang, the free screening program is scheduled to be held from October 2022 to February 2023 for women aged between 35 and 64, who are from physically disabled, single-parent and/or families covered with basic living allowances. The free screening has benefited about 1,800 women in Altay.

Including the free screening for ''two cancers'' program, Heilongjiang Province provided a total funding of 76.49 million yuan (US $10.62 million) in 2022 to support Xinjiang in the implementation of projects covering public health and medical services, rural revitalization, the improvement of comprehensive governance capabilities, and assistance to employment by multiple sources, as well as to raise the quality of 22 livelihoods-related projects.

''We have organized 29 medical teams, composed of 88 members, to support public health and medical services provided by hospitals in Altay, such as in the counties of Fuhai and Qinghe. Statistics show that the hospitals in Altay (including several hospitals in the counties of Fuhai, Fuyun and Qinghe) reduced their referral, admission and mortality rates in 2022,'' Wang said.

(Source: China Women's News/Translated by Women of China)