[Early Activities of China Medical Board's in China]

China Medical Board (abbreviated as CMB), originated from Rockefeller Foundation, gives support specifically to the medical development and health promotion in China and other underdeveloped areas in Asia. At its beginning, CMB's vision is to lay a solid and systematic foundation with high standard for the long-term development of medicine in China. With this vision, CMB of Rockefeller Foundation built up Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), the best one at that time in Asia and the world.. Besides this main task, from 1914 to 1919, CMB also devoted its effort and funding to the development of other missionary medical colleges in China, sponsored missionary hospitals, provided fellowship, scholarship and grants to medical professionals and staff in China, which greatly enhanced the development of not only PUMC but also the advancement of medicine and promotion of health in China.