他的首创惠及亿万农民,得到伟大领袖的赞赏和批示,《人民日报》头版头条予以报道; 他只读过3年私塾,却由一名农民“赤脚医生”破格提拔为省卫生厅副厅长; 他当了几个月厅长便辞官还乡当农民,作为平民百姓又当面进言省委书记;他4次受到毛泽东接见，几度出国访问，连任两届全国人大代表；他就是被新华社记者誉为“中国合作医疗之父”的——覃祥官。 His first creation benefited hundreds of millions of peasants and was praised and commended by the great leaders. The People’s Daily published the front-page news. He read only the 3-year private school and was promoted by a peasant barefoot doctor to the provincial health department When he was a few months later, the chief executive resigned his office as a peasant and went on to speak with the provincial party secretary as a civilian. He was interviewed by Mao Zedong four times and made several overseas visits and was re-elected as two NPC deputies. He was Xinhua News Agency was hailed as “the father of China’s cooperative medical care” - Qin Xiang Guan.