China and India established a joint medical team in Beijing Tuesday, the second of its kind since 2008.

The team, consisting of five ENT (ear-nose-throat) doctors from China and five from India, will carry out exchanges on medical care in both countries and offer free medical services in rural areas this year.

The team will on Wednesday start a weeklong visit in north China's Hebei Province, where the renown Indian Doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis used to work during China's eight-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression.

Kotnis, who came in 1938 to China as a member of an Indian medical aid team, is well-remembered in China for his selflessness and untiring support of the Chinese people. He died of illness in China in 1942 at the age of 32.

The five Chinese members are scheduled to visit to India this December.

The two countries set up the first medical mission amid Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to China in 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency August 18, 2010)