Former basketball player Yao Ming, also celebrity spokesperson of China Life Insurance Company Ltd., poses for a photo with health workers while attending a charity event in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Nov. 22, 2014.

The charity event, organized by China Life Insurance, was held here on Saturday, during which a total of 3.6 million RMB yuan’s (590,000 U.S. dollars) worth of medical equipment and supplies were donated to hospitals in south Ningxia’s depressed mountainous area in order to improve local health condition.