 China Scene: West
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-23 07:27 Artificial respiration saves hiker's life Li Bingjiang, resident of Xianyang, Shaanxi province saved the life of a hiker surnamed Ma, whose friends presumed him dead from drowning, after more than an hour of strenuous artificial respiration. Li, a hiker inured in survival in the wild, was leading a party of 36 hikers to the province's famous Huashan Mountain scenic resort when Ma's friends asked for help. Upon hearing that Ma had fallen into a mountain pool Li went immediately to his aid. Ma had no pulse or heartbeat and his pupils had dilated. Li nevertheless began giving him artificial respiration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. His efforts eventually saved Ma's life. (Huashang Daily)
Qinling park animal cracker games begin A special sports meet was held in Xi'an Qinling Wildlife Park last weekend, in which 100 or so animals took part. Pigs, camels, gorillas, crocodiles, pearl horses, black bears, sea lions, seals and monkeys competed in track, gymnastics, swimming, equestrian and boxing events. The games, which offer a happy diversion for students as well as visitors during the summer vacation, carry on until August 31. (www.xinhuanet.com) Overdue garbage sparks spontaneous combustion An explosion on Sunday at a house in a residential community in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, sparked a fire which local fire fighters swiftly extinguished. Fortunately no one was injured. Fire fighters investigating the cause of the explosion found that garbage that had been left outside for an unspecified period had produced flammable gases that exploded in the summer heat. Fire fighters warned local residents to remove garbage regularly in order to avoid future similar incidents. (Metropolis Times) Fagin-style gang of human traffickers busted Police in Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region recently captured a 90-member gang of human traffickers who have been operating for the past decade. Tuo, 57, head of the criminal gang, began trafficking people in 1999 while running a small restaurant in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, according to local police sources. The gang took 83 women and children to the southern city, with the help of Tuo's family members in Xinjiang, on the pretext of having found them jobs and schooling in Guangzhou. They then organized abductees into teams of thieves and robbers. After detaining Tuo in April, police apprehended the rest of the gang and rescued 30 abducted children. (Xinjiang Metropolis Daily) Female exec resigns job to nurse mother-in-law Zhu Xiaoyan, former chairwoman of a company in Bishan county, Chongqing municipality, has voluntarily become her mother-in-law's thirteenth carer. Zhu's mother-in-law Chen Guihua, 79, has been quadriplegic for three years. During this time Zhu employed 12 carers, one after another, to look after her, but each one found the work of nursing this elderly, sick woman too arduous and left. When the twelfth carer gave notice, Zhu decided to look after her mother-in-law herself. She sold up her company and has since been at home doing the work of a carer. "I felt some sense of loss at the beginning, but I think looking after my mother-in-law is more important than managing the firm," Zhu said. (Chongqing Evening News) Minor in a huff drives father's truck 40 km A 12-year-old boy drove his father's truck some 40 km last Wednesday after taking umbrage at being punished. The father of the boy surnamed Li, a fourth grade pupil at Fugu county, Shaanxi province, punished his son on Tuesday. The next morning the boy left home for school as usual, but angry at what seemed to him unjust punishment, drove his father's truck to his grandfather's home 40 or so km from his home. The boy's father was astounded when he received the phone call telling him about his son's joy-ride, saying he had no idea how the boy could have driven the truck safely on a busy road over such a long distance. (Xi'an Evening News) (China Daily 07/23/2008 page5) |
