On March 7, 2025, the First Affiliated Hospital (FAH) of Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) launched " Cardiovascular Interventional Surgery Skill Training Program for Young and Middle-aged Indonesian Physicians". This project is jointly organized by Indonesian Ministry of Health and National Health Commission of China. Three young and middle-aged physicians from Indonesia will receive 1-year systematic training in FAH. The tutor team consists of 12 senior experts from FAH.

To adhere to the "Belt and Road Initiative", deepen international medical cooperation and contribute to the construction of "Health Silk Road", Indonesian Ministry of Health and National Health Commission of China reached a consensus to carry out this project considering the rising incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Indonesia and shortage of medical talents and technological weakness. As the construction affiliation of National Medical Center and the highland of cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment in northwest China, FAH gives full play to the advantages of multidisciplinary coordination and tailors the curricular system with equivalent emphasis on both theory and practice for training session. This project focuses on core skills of coronary interventional surgery, adopts "step-by-step" training mode, comprises thematic lectures, livestreaming surgical demonstration, simulator operation and "hands-on" clinical guidance by the tutors and also let trainees visit relevant platforms of FAH to understand cardiovascular disease management mode. At the kick-off meeting of this project, Indonesian counterparts highly recognized this cooperation. In the future, FAH will take the specialty of cardiovascular disease as a link to expand multi-field cooperation with countries along the Belt and Road, promote "going out" of Chinese standards and explore the prevention and treatment path of cardiovascular diseases in tropical areas, looking forward to building a long-term cooperation mechanism with Indonesia and contributing Chinese wisdom to cardiovascular health worldwide.