During the War of Resistance against Japan, Yan Fuqing served as the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Ambulance Committee and mobilized teachers, students and medical personnel of the school to organize medical ambulance teams to go to the front and rear of the Anti-Japanese War to serve the sick and wounded.
He once wrote an article pointing out: "In this period of the war of resistance, no matter for the soldiers in the front, and the people and refugees in the rear, all need to have health care and medical care and epidemic prevention and other measures. Therefore, physicians, nurses and other medical personnel are very important.
But the number of such personnel is limited, which will lead to an oversupply. Therefore, in wartime, it is necessary to rely on the medical education institutions to produce the largest number of medical personnel in the shortest possible time, in order to supply the resources."
The article also mentions, "The medical schools have at least two indispensable jobs in wartime. On the one hand, for the front and back of the need for medical personnel, must be engaged in the creation, and shall not avoid responsibility. At the same time, on the one hand, they must make every effort to retain the original professors, students and equipment in order to restore the inherent foundation after the end of the war. The above two kinds of work, related to the most important, it is appropriate to have a detailed consideration of close attention. If you lose sight of one or the other, you cannot carry out its mission ...... "In short, he did a lot of good work in supporting the anti-Japanese, saving lives and helping the wounded.
Yan Fuqing made an indelible contribution to China's medical education, and he will remain in the minds of the people forever. His rigorous, diligent spirit of study and conscientious work style is an example for the majority of medical and health workers to follow No. 4, Lane 40, Wukang Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, where Yan Fuqing lived from 1943 to 1950.