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GAO YA, an 11-year-old blind girl in Harbin city, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, is proud of walking 368 meters alone every day to and from school. She does not know that her mother accompanies her all the way. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:
The woman loves her daughter so much that she accompanies the girl to and from school to ensure she is safe, yet she wants the girl to be independent, so she follows her without letting her know she is there.
However, in this moving story there is one detail to which we should pay attention. The distance from the girl's home to her school is only 368 meters, but it takes the blind girl 15 minutes to complete the journey. Why? From a video clip posted online, it can be seen that she has to navigate past staircases, crowded corridors, sewer manholes and randomly parked cars.
