At 17:30 on March 12, a China Eastern Airlines latest A350-900 passenger plane took off from Shanghai Pudong Airport, and executed the MU787 charter flight, which has the smallest number of passengers of this aircraft so far, bringing the Chinese government and the Chinese Red Cross. A team of 9 experts and about 9 tons of supplies will be sent to Italy from Shanghai to Rome. The two thousand-year-old Silk Road opened a new chapter in the epidemic of war.

The 9-member team of experts sent to Italy this time came from the National Health Commission, the Chinese Red Cross, the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, the Sichuan Red Cross, the Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the West China Hospital of Sichuan University. They have fought successively at the forefront of the domestic epidemic. They have rich experience in the prevention and treatment of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and some experts have also experienced many major tests such as the Wenchuan earthquake and assistance to the Ebola epidemic area in West Africa. (Video source edited by Gao Yuhui, reporter of China Eastern Airlines Publicity Department Yin Liqin)

Editor-in-chief: [Li Yuxin]