China Scene: North
Heartsick woman lucky to get a helping hand
A woman fainted on a street in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, on Sunday night because of a heart condition, but a warmhearted cab driver and police officer stepped in to help just in the nick of time.
As he was passing by, Li, the cab driver, saw Zhang lying on the road. He tried to wake her up, but failed and then called police. Police arrived soon and Zhang managed to tell them that she lived in a nearby building. They immediately drove her to the neighborhood and found her daughter in their apartment. She brought out the woman's medicine, returning Zhang to consciousness.
Police found out that Zhang's husband had left their home in a rage that night after quarreling with his wife. She went out looking for him, but forgot her medicine.
(Yanzhao Evening News)
Disabled hero saves woman from accident
Liu Shuzhen, a woman from Hunan province, accidentally fell into a river in Beijing's Haidian district on Saturday morning while sitting there reading a book.
Seeing her struggling for survival in the 2-m deep water, Liu Xuejun, a disabled man riding a bicycle along the riverbank, jumped into the water and saved her.
After carrying her out of the water, the disabled man, in his 50s, fainted due to a wound he received while in the water and had to be rushed to hospital, where he recovered soon.
It was his 12th time rescuing someone in need. Media spoke highly of his heroism.
(Beijing Times)
Divorce averted despite dreams of infidelity
After dreaming that her husband was having an affair with another woman, a young countrywoman from a village near Meihekou, a city in Jilin province, fell into a depression so deep that she said she would kill herself with a knife.
After waking from the dream, she held her husband at knifepoint and asked for a divorce. After he refused, she threatened to commit suicide.
Seeing the two quarrelling on Thursday morning, a neighbor surnamed Han called police for help. The countrywoman, surnamed Wang, only calmed down after a policemen explained to her that her dreams could not be used as grounds for a divorce.
(East Asia Economy and Trade News)
Farmer returns home to find money in shreds
Wang Shijia, a farmer, lost the 8,100 yuan ($1,157) in cash he had hidden inside a sack of maize at his house in Dehui, Jilin province, when his wife ground the grain into flour on Thursday.
Wang had hidden his savings inside the sack to keep it safe, but forgot to tell his wife before going out to work one morning.
The cash was ripped to shreds after his wife poured the maize into the grinder.
In a bid to recover the losses, they took the mangled notes to a bank, where tellers said they would accept the money for further verification.
(New Culture View)
Window-washers caught in 39th-floor predicament
Three window-cleaning workers were stranded outside a 55-story building in Tianjin municipality for more than an hour on Friday after all their safety ropes were twisted together by the wind.
As a result, the three workers were stuck outside the fixed windows on the building's 39th floor.
The fire department was called to help, and it took about 100 minutes for firefighters to untie the worker's twisted knots and free them from the skyscraper.
(Metro Express)
Businessman lucky to have taken honest bus
While aboard a bus in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, last Tuesday morning a businessman from Zhengzhou, Henan province, lost a bag containing some 8,000 yuan ($1,145) in cash and all his personal documents, but he got them all back later that afternoon thanks to an honest driver.
Wang Lizhi, the bus driver, found the bag while cleaning his vehicle. He called the cell phone number he found on a business card inside the bag and then contacted the owner, surnamed Zhang, with the help of his company.
Zhang got Wang's call as he was leaving Shijiazhuang for another city.
"I would have gotten in trouble with my company when I arrived in the next city without the money and documents," he said,
(Yanzhao Metropolis Daily)
(China Daily 04/25/2008 page6)
