China Scene: East

Elderly couple's heroic battle to repay sons' debts

An 82-year-old fisherman in San'ao village of Wenzhou city, Zhejiang province, knitted fishing nets over the past five years to repay debts left by his late sons.

Wu Naiyi's three sons were killed in a typhoon in 2006, but they left 600,000 yuan ($91,500) in unpaid loans from a credit cooperative and a fishing gear shop.