At the age of over 80, Academician Wu Tianyi remained steadfast on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and was awarded the title of one of China's top ten medical giants, Tibetan | High Altitude | Medicine
@On August 17, China News Network reported that Wu Tianyi, the winner of the "July 1st Medal" and an academician of the CAE Member, was awarded the "Top Ten Medical Masters in China" at the eighth annual meeting of physicians of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association on the occasion of the sixth Chinese Medical Doctor's Day.
Song Shouci stated that the diagnostic criteria for chronic mountain diseases established by Wu Tianyi have been accepted as international standards by the International Association of Alpine Medicine and are being uniformly applied globally; He pioneered the study of "Tibetan adaptive physiology", diagnosed and treated tens of thousands of Tibetan people, known as the "protector of life"; He established the first high-altitude medical research institute in the country, and he and his team rode horses and yaks to conduct research in the hinterland of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, in high-altitude areas where Tibetan people live, known as "academicians on horseback"; He filled the gap in the research fields of hypoxia physiology and high-altitude medicine, and built a scientific system for high-altitude survival safety; During the construction of the Qinghai Tibet Railway, he presided over the formulation of a series of high-altitude disease prevention and treatment measures and emergency plans, creating a miracle of no death due to high-altitude disease in the Tanggula Mountain, where a construction army of 140000 people worked hard in the past five years; He stood on the podium of the Golden Hall of the Great Hall of the People and wore the "July 1st Medal" representing the highest honor within the party. At the age of over 80, he still stands firm on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, guarding the health of the plateau people.