Chinese Lives

Runner Fan is not a person’s real name, but a nickname, a negative meaning. He got that for his inact to protect teenage students when the earthquake happened. Without proper warning and guidance, he just said the word earthquake and ran away. That is why he is called Runner Fan.

A Beijing University graduate majoring history who left Uni for 10 years, Fan was a failure under comon standard to be in his present place, a temporary teacher, because Beijing University is the top art-subjected university in China.

He seemed living in pain under current education system that only request good marks to enter university after 12 years’ study, and he hated hypocrite moral lecturing that exist in society. Simply he wanted freedom of choice. For instance, he wanted the choice to live, rather than to die for students. He would never die for anyone else including his mother who gave him his life, but his little daughter.

Runner Fan, to warn students of the earthquake would not cost your life. It only test your heart. I don’t know whether i could criticise Fan of his being selfish. I know he would categorize me as hypocrite. But still, I have to say Runner Fan, you failed your students’ expectations, and teaching is not suitable job for you.

This man loves to be in America, or maybe UK and the Europe, where he regards free and liberal. I doubt he got it right, because in America, many teachers help and die for students. Is he a Chinese Patient?

My sorrows to all earthquake-suffered families.

When this tremendous natural disaster hit Chinese people in the head with no kind warning, it destroyed homes but didn’t extinguish our hope.

It certainly changed many a selfish Chinese citizens, who could actually sympathize with earthquake victims, and offered help. It melt the glass panel between rich and poor, high and low, north and south, east and west, Taiwan and Mainland etc.

These ten farmers from Shangdong Province spent 3 days to reach Sichuan earthquake-hit region in a three wheeler van. They were among the first unofficial volunteers to work side by side with PLA to help find survivers.

This man tied his dead wife on his back to drive her to a funeral home, in the hope that she could die with dignity.

Yesterday 2.30pm, Wenchuan County was struck by a very severe earthquake, and still no picture infomation detailing casualties are available.

Several places neighbouring Wenchuan had building collapesed and people buried below earth, Premiere Wen Jia Bao was in Du Jiang Yan city.

In Chengdu, Chongqing, and Du Jiang Yan, local residents volunteer to donate blood. China Red Cross and One Charity have started accepting donations.

Bless China. We will make it.

An apartment building nearly tear apart.

This was a six floor hospital wards, about 150 patients and 30 staff trapped.

Premiere Wen Jia Bao was shouting survivors of a Primary School.

Premiere Wen Jia Bao was waiting during rescue.

A survivor had to stay in to accept medication.

A lucky girl. Bless her.

Blood donator queque at night to save more survivors.

Blood donators.

Husband kissed her wife in labor.

This afternoon, around 2.30pm, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck a remote county of multi ethinic residents in Sichuan Province, 60 miles from Chengdu, capital city of the province.

Nearly all south parts of China felt strong shake. Friends in Wuhan said, she felt dizzy, and heard strange sound like huge wind. Suddenly she was scared if the building would collapse.

For now, no responses with pictures detailing the casualties are put on internet, so I don’t know how badly the damage caused. And, a comparison quote, in 1976, 242,000 people died of Tangshan earthquake, which was magnitude 7.8, actually over 8, and last 15 seconds. But WenChuan, assumed having less high brick buildings than cities, should not have that terrible death toll. I hope not that much.

CCTV news announced the disaster pretty quick, and our Premiere Wen Jiabao is on the way to Wenchuan county. Wen is a good old man! It takes courage and shows responsibility to go there. I wish him best of luck. His presence can assure suffering people get help quicker.