Warm sunshine with autumn breeze

11月19日早晨7:00起床，洗澡化妆，天空鱼肚白。我与高司机一同前往广州白云机场迎接世界脊柱外科大师。他就是德国脊柱学会2016年主席，奥斯纳布吕克医院脊柱中心主任Prof.Winking。他乘南方航空的全新飞机从法兰克福飞来中国广州啦。上午安排他入住广州瑰丽酒店休息。2016年南京鼓楼医院邱勇邀请他前往南京。他在颈椎方面举世闻名。他来中国之前曾与世界微创脊柱大师Mayer 教授通了电话，Mayer告诉了他中国的所见所闻以及中国目前在全球的领先地位。近10年他所在医院的脊柱中心完成了11578台脊柱手术。中午咱们去米其林餐厅餐叙，下午去了仁医医疗广州办公室，Winking教授惊叹我们五年的工作在德国医院如此的影响力。他认为科技、医疗、教育对一个国家意义深远，中国现在在全球非常让人刮目相看。过去他曾来过北京、上海、南京、西安、深圳。今天来到广州，阳光正好，微风不燥。傍晚他将从广州飞往武汉。11月20-24日Winking教授来到武汉体育学院附属医院担任国际客座教授，并在医院开展了一系列学术交流活动，包括门诊、查房、手术指导、手术实操、科室内部培训、科室管理讨论、重点疑难病例讨论、大师公开课等。11月20日早上，医院领导共同为Winking教授举办欢迎仪式，双方各自介绍医院及科室情况，并进行中德脊柱微创交流中心颁匾仪式。欢迎仪式上，李绪贵院长对Winking教授表示热烈欢迎，并为Winking教授颁发客座教授牌匾。

On November 19th, I got up at 7:00, showered and put on make up. The sky suffused with gray dawn. I went with my driver Gao to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to pick up a world-class spine surgery master. He is Prof. Winking, the President of German Spine Society (DWG) of 2016 and Director of Spine Center Osnabrueck. He took a brand new plane of China Southern Airlines from Frankfurt to Guangzhou, China. In the morning, he was invited to have a short rest at Rosewood Guangzhou. In 2016, Director QIU Yong of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital invited him to Nanjing since Prof. Winking has made worldly-known achievements in the treatment of cervical spine. Before he came to China, he had a phone call with Prof. Michael Mayer, the world-class minimally invasive spine surgery master. And Prof. Mayer told Prof. Winking about his own experience in China and the current leading position of China in the world. During the past ten years, Spine Center Osnabrueck where Prof. Winking works has performed 11,578 spine surgeries. At noon, we went to a Michelin-starred restaurant for lunch. Then in the afternoon, we invited Prof. Winking to Gloryren's office in Guangzhou. And he was amazed by our visibility in Germany with only five-year's efforts. He considered that technology, healthcare system, and education have profound significance for a nation. The development of China is now remarkable all over the world. In the past, he has been to Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an, and Shenzhen. And now he came to Guangzhou in warm sunshine with breeze. At dusk, he took a flight from Guangzhou to Wuhan. From November 20th to 24th, Prof. Winking will be visiting Wuhan Orthopaedics Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine (The Affiliated Hospital of Wuhan Sports University) as an international visiting professor. He will carry out a series of academic exchange activities, including outpatient consultations, ward rounds, surgical guidance, internal lectures, discussions on department management and complex cases, and public lecture, etc. On the morning of November 20th, the executives of the hospital held a welcome ceremony for Prof. Winking. Both parties introduced their hospitals and departments, and held an inauguration for the Sino-German Communication Center for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery. On the welcome ceremony, LI Xugui, President of the hospital expressed a warm welcome to Prof. Winking, and issued him a letter-of-appointment of visiting professor.