In the fourth year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a severe drought and famine in Hangzhou.
At that time, Su Shi, the governor of Hangzhou, sympathized with the suffering of the people and self raised funds to establish a disease clinic called “Anle Fang”.
This was the first government run hospital in history and the predecessor of Hangzhou’s first social welfare institution.
For thousands of years, although Anle Fang has become history, the goodness of human nature contained in it has not been cut off, and it has been passed down for thousands of years to this day.
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