On August 9th, Hua Fund (a charity fund BGI co-founded) in collaboration with Maoming City Health and Family Planning Bureau, Maoming City Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Guangdong Provincial Ministry of Land and Resources Volunteer Service Corps and Ming Ai Corps Star Volunteer Service Team, held a ceremony to kick off a public welfare program to offer “Free HLA Matching services for Medium and Heavy Thalassemia Patients in Maoming City”. The program has provided free matching tests for 73 families including a total of 219 people for the medium and severe thalassaemia patients in Maoming City, which also forms part of Maoming City government’s Thalassaemia prevention and treatment program.