RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
tion, is. undertaking responsibility for the editing
and publication of medical, nursing, and midwifery
textbooks and manuals. Another important
activity already initiated is the systematic planning
of teacher training. The ministry receives
nominations for fellowships from the different
institutions of the country. Eleven such fellows
have been appointed on local fellowship funds
supplied by the Foundation. The Peiping Union
Medical College trains some of these future
teachers.
Through the commission the Foundation has
also supplied thirteen fellowships for public
health nurses. These women are being trained to
be leaders in this kind of work and are spending
their fellowship period at the Peiping Union
Medical College, although a great deal of their
practical training is obtained at the Municipal
Health Center maintained by the college.
Although the Foundation's contribution to
this commission is not large, results obtained in
a few months have been highly promising. The
development of state medicine in China takes
its inspiration and direction from the work of this
commission.
Nanking Agricultural Program
China is an agricultural country. Eighty-five
per cent of its population depends on the soil and
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