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Barefoot Doctors Serve In China's Broad Countryside. Active in the broad rural China is a contingent of more than 1,500,000 barefoot doctors who tour worksites and farms to bring medical care to the peasants' homes. By relying on the broad masses of commune members. They do their best to run the co-operative medical service well and improve the rural health condition, thus winning warm praise from the people. Studying Chairman Mao's teaching "In medical and health work, put the stress on the rural areas" has strengthened constantly the determination of barefoot doctors to run still better the co-operative medical service in Leyuan commune, Hupeh Province, central China.