A lesson by students

Xiang Xiaolian, a 13-year-old girl of Yingxiu town would not have survived the earthquake had it not been for the efforts of her classmate Ma Jian who spent four hours digging rubble with bare hands to free her.

It is indeed amazing and moving that a teenage boy could scramble through tons of concrete risking his life to get his classmate out of danger.

When their school building in Dujiangyan started to shake and was about to collapse, a student shouted to his classmates to lie prone on the floor, which had proved instrumental in saving the lives of some of them.