China Scene: Central

Father, son carve Olympic-sized work

Luo Xuliang and his son Luo Sheng recently carved a huge wooden screen in the city of Liuyang, Hunan province.

The screen, which weighs more than 260 kg, has two dragons carved at the top, a poem written by the late Chairman Mao Zedong in the middle and 2,008 Olympic logos at the bottom.

It took Luo, who has been carving for more than 30 years, and his son more than a year to complete the work, which is 305-cm long and 245-cm high.

Luo, in his 50s, wants to donate the screen to the organizing committee of the Beijing Olympic Games.

(Changsha Evening News)

Student cares for bedridden foster dad

Chen Hui is balancing her studies at Henan University with the care of her foster father, who is bedridden.

The 22-year-old rents an apartment near the campus, which she shares with her paralyzed father Chen Baozhong.

Chen feeds and dresses her father every day in her 10-sq-m lodgings.

She said she won't abandon him despite the financial strain, because he took her in after her birth parents abandoned her when she was born.

(China Youth News)

(China Daily 04/11/2008 page6)