Children attending a rural health centre for a checkup by a young woman doctor. Colour lithograph, 1974.

She is examining a boy's chest with a stethoscope. Another woman makes notes in a book with pen and ink. On the wall, a poster designed by Zhong Shijia for Liaoning Province Family Planning Office shows two women agricultural workers with advice about family planning ("Practise late marriage and family planning, liberate the labour force of women", Wellcome Library no. 660889i). Outside, colossal sunflowers and thatched huts are visible. Everything is bright, clean and new. In the distance, paddy fields, a viaduct, and mountains