By the end of July, 214,500 women in Lanzhou New Area and 14 other cities or prefectures in Northwest China's Gansu Province had received free cervical- and breast-cancer (two cancers) screening. 

As a result, the province had completed its task of giving checkups to 200,000 women for the year. Gansu has made efforts to build a comprehensive working system on the prevention and treatment of the two cancers. 

It obtained 11.61 million yuan (US $1.64 million) from All-China Women's Federation's special funding to assist low-income women diagnosed with one or both of the two cancers. 

The government of Linxia, a city in Gansu, allocated funding to provide free human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to 2,200 girl students in junior middle schools.

(Women of China English Monthly September 2024)

Editor: Wang Shasha