Eight-year-old Ayishagumuli Mamati (Ayisha), who lives in Qiongabag Village, Wukusak Town, Shufu County, Xinjiang, was diagnosed with viral keratitis, while the girl failed to receive treatment for financial difficulties, which made her vision continue to deteriorate.

With comprehensive support from Guangdong Province, special medical team members were dispatched to accompany Ayisha to the Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou for surgery with the local authorities to solve the medical expenses issue. Finally, Ayisha's blurred world brimmed with a ray of light.

However, one month later, an accident occurred. After learning about the situation, Yang Yao, who had just arrived from the Zhongshan Ophthalmology Center's Ocular Trauma Department, urgently performed surgery on Ayisha that evening. "It's great to see that the child's vision is recovering without leaving Kashgar for surgery." Ayisha's mother told reporters.

In fact, eye diseases are prevalent in the Kashgar region due to factors like strong ultraviolet radiation and long sunshine hours. Currently, Guangdong has launched the cataract screening and prevention campaign to support Xinjiang, with a professional team composed of ophthalmology experts continuing to provide eye disease screenings to the residents of Shufu County and Payzawat County.

Since 2016, Guangdong has been organizing medical personnel to carry out "group-style" aid to Xinjiang, contributing to a total of 1,870 medical aid personnel being sent, 9.18 million patient visits, and 350,000 surgeries performed. The arrival of the Guangdong medical aid team has made it much more convenient to receive eye disease treatment and "brightened" the eyes of the people in Kashgar.

With strong support from Guangdong's medical aid to Xinjiang, the Kashgar First People's Hospital, which had 1,000 beds in 2012, has developed into a large-scale tertiary hospital with 3,000 beds.

Xiao Fei, the leader of the 11th batch of Guangdong Medical Aid Team to Xinjiang and the director of the Kashgar First People's Hospital, said, "Guangdong's new round of medical aid to Xinjiang is targeted to bring the service capacity of the Kashgar First People's Hospital to the tertiary one like those in the provincial capitals of central and western regions by 2025."

At Mingde Elementary School in Shufu County, children are concentrating on completing their paper-cutting artworks. In this school, Guangdong elements can be found throughout the student clubs. There are Hakka paper-cutting, egg carving, shadow puppetry, and lion dance performances. These were brought by the teachers from Guangdong to aid Xinjiang with education.

"The work of this egg carving is named 'Flowers Bloom for Prosperity'. Our teacher from Guangzhou brought us an egg carving room." Camille, a fifth-grade student, showed her egg carving work to reporters. When asked if she knew about Guangdong, she mentioned, "I have seen pictures of the Canton Tower and consider the city very beautiful. If I have the opportunity, I would love to visit Guangzhou."

Guangdong's educational support to Xinjiang has had a profound impact on Mingde Elementary School, fostering a culture of enrichment and growth. Since 2018, 62 teachers of four batches have been dispatched to Mingde Elementary School, significantly enhancing the quality of education and teaching. In addition, Guangdong has invested more than six million yuan in Mingde Elementary School, enabling the construction of new patriotic education halls, recording studios, information technology classrooms, and other educational facilities. These investments have brought significant improvements to the overall teaching conditions at the school.

“组团式”援疆！广东将先进医疗和文化教育带到喀什

8岁的阿依夏古木丽·麦麦提家住新疆疏附县吾库萨克镇琼巴格村，被确诊为“病毒性角膜炎”，但因家庭经济困难迟迟无法治疗，视力越来越差。

在广东省对口支援新疆工作前方指挥部的统筹支持下，广州援疆工作队派出医疗组成员陪同阿依夏赴广州中山大学医院眼科中心进行手术，并联动当地解决医疗费用问题。阿依夏模糊的世界终于等来了一束光。

谁也没想到手术完一个月又发生意外。了解情况后，刚从中山眼科中心眼外伤科过来援疆不到2个月的杨瑶当晚紧急为阿依夏开展了手术。“孩子视力正在恢复，不用出喀什就能做手术，真的太好了。”孩子的母亲布柯孜向记者表示。

事实上，受紫外线强、日照时间长等影响，喀什地区居民眼病多发。目前，“粤新光明行”白内障筛查防治行动已开展，由眼科专家组成的筛查队伍持续到疏附县、伽师县，为当地居民提供眼病筛查等。

2016年起，广东开始组建医疗人才开展“组团式”援疆工作，迄今共派出医疗援疆人才1870人、诊疗患者918万人次、实施手术35万台。广东援疆医疗队的到来，让大家看眼部疾病方便了许多，“擦亮”了喀什人民的眼睛。

在广东医疗援疆强有力的支持下，目前，喀地一院从2012年的1000张床位已发展成为一所拥有3000张床位的大型三甲综合性医院。

中组部第十一批“组团式”援疆广东省医疗队队长、喀地一院院长肖非说：“广东新一轮医疗援疆的目标是到2025年，使喀地一院的服务能力达到中西部地区省会城市三甲医院的水平。”

在疏附县的另一头的明德小学里，小朋友们正聚精会神地完成自己手里的剪纸作品。客家剪纸、蛋雕、皮影戏、醒狮表演……在喀什疏附县的明德小学里，记者发现广东元素遍布社团各处。这些都是广东援疆老师带来的。

“这个蛋雕的名字叫《花开富贵》。教我们的老师就是从广州过来的，因为老师才有了蛋雕室。”五年级的卡米莱向记者展示自己的蛋雕作品。当记者问及是否了解广东时，她提到：“我看过广州塔的图片，觉得广州特别美丽，有机会的话我很想去广州看看。”

广东教育援疆以来，文化润疆逐渐在明德小学落地生根。2018年以来，广东共选派四批62名教师援助明德小学，学校教育教学质量稳步提升。同时，广东还先后为明德小学投入600余万元，帮助修建爱国主义教育馆、录播室、信息技术教室等育人场所，学校办学条件得到明显改善。

文丨记者 杭莹
图丨记者 钟振彬
翻译丨陈萱
责编丨古司祺
校对丨周勇