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An oculist checks for a patient in Lao capital Vientiane, Nov. 25, 2019. A team of oculists from China's Yunnan province have kicked off a "Bright Journey" in Lao capital Vientiane on Friday. The activity, running till next Tuesday, will provide free surgeries for 100 Lao cataract patients at Lao National Ophthalmology Center in Vientiane. The 2019 "Bright Journey," launched by Yunnan Folk Friendship with Foreign Countries Exchange Foundation, has organized a medical team consisting of professional medical staff from the First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, who also donated all the medicines, materials and equipment needed for the activity. (Photo by Kaikeo Saiyasane/Xinhua)