A specialist in clinical anesthesiology from southwest China's Sichuan Province has donated 100 million yuan in rewards to the hospital at which he works on Monday, which soon became a trending topic on Weibo.
Liu Jin, 65, director of the anesthesia surgery center at the West China Hospital at Sichuan University, donated the substantial personal bonus to set up a special fund for standardized training in an effort to motivate faculty and resident doctors and enhance their clinical competence.
The money is from patents involved in two contracts worth 750 million yuan (US$116 million) in total, both developed by Liu-led research teams.
It is also China's first special fund for standardized training donated and set up by an individual.