title: Eye health is everyone's responsibility: China's first Western-style eye hospital improves in the prevention of blindness.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the relationship between China's first Western-style eye hospital development and the prevention of blindness in China and determine the main factor influencing eye health today.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data about eye health, blindness and cataract surgery rate of China from public website of World Health Organization (WHO), ORBIS International, Ministry of Health (MOH) of China, Pubmed center and Historical Archives of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC) were reviewed and analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  ZOC is China's first Western-style eye hospital. In 2012, the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital has chosen ZOC once again as one of its destinations, 30 years after ORBIS expanded internationally to train eye care professionals and treat underserved patients in developing countries in 1982. During the past 30 years, cataract surgery rate and public awareness of blindness prevention were improved greatly in China, in which ZOC plays a very important role.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ZOC, as China's first Western-style eye hospital, has improved in the prevention of blindness. Eye health has become everyone's responsibility.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510060, Guangdong Province, China.
authors.forename: Hao-Tian
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Li-Xia
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Wei-Rong
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yi-Zhi
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Liu