Complex sentence: Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生 pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) were farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People's Republic of China to primarily bring health care to rural areas where urban-trained doctors would not settle.
Split into simpler sentences: Barefoot doctors (Chinese: 赤脚医生 pinyin: chìjiǎo yīshēng) were farmers who received minimal basic medical and paramedical training and worked in rural villages in the People's Republic of China. Their purpose was to bring health care to rural areas where urban-trained doctors would not settle.