Ammar, a doctor in Yiwu

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Zhao Yiyang, Zhao Pinwei, Liu Fucheng, Fang Hao (Yiwu Media Convergence Center)

Yemeni expat Ammar Al-Baadani was sent by his government to study in China in 1997. He obtained a doctoral degree in clinical medicine at Zhejiang University and has been a surgeon in Yiwu, a county-level city in East China's Zhejiang province, for over eight years.

With his expertise in the medical field, Ammar has been doing a great deal in the fight against COVID-19 in China since the virus first broke out two years ago.