A Chinese soldier has donated 200 milliliters of blood with a high density of hematopoietic stem cells to a leukemia patient in South Korea.

Xu Shiyu, 26, a soldier from the armored regiment of Jinan Military Area Command, had his blood extracted by a blood cell separation machine on Wednesday and Thursday at the Air Force General Hospital of the PLA in Beijing.

The blood will be transfused into a leukemia patient in the South Korea. Staff members from the Korean Marrow Donor Program came to Beijing on Thursday morning to take the donated blood back to Seoul.