WeChat post helps boy get from Hohhot to Beijing hospital

Concerns from netizens helped clear traffic from expressways so that a boy with traumatic brain injuries from a car accident could be transported quickly from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region to Beijing on Tuesday.

On Monday evening, a WeChat post titled "Relay for Life" went viral. It indicated the license plate numbers of the ambulance carrying the boy and two other vehicles in the convoy, as well as their departure time and driving route, and called on surrounding vehicles to give way to them.

At 5:15 am on Tuesday, accompanied by medical staff from 999 Emergency Center, the ambulance began the 500 kilometer trip and was scheduled to arrive at 1 pm.