Chen Fei, vice governor of the People's Government of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with Ms. Maritta Vaelimaeki on the morning of October 26, 2022.

Ms. Vaelimaeki is a foreign expert who won the 2022 Chinese Government Friendship Award and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing hired by the Central South University.

Vice Governor Chen congratulated Ms. Vaelimaeki on winning the award. He added that in recent years, Hunan has promoted the high-quality development of building a healthy Hunan, and a Furong Laboratory (Precision Medicine) was established to protect the people's lives and health. He expected Ms. Vaelimaeki to keep playing the traction role as a high-end foreign talent. Hunan will continue to optimize the service system for foreign experts to provide quality services for their innovation and entrepreneurship in Hunan.

In 2020, Ms. Vaelimaeki came to China, engaged in a full-time job, and then formed and led an academic team in the field of mental health nursing in Asia. She said that she will continue to contribute more to the construction of a healthy Hunan and the international exchanges in the nursing field.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn