Special Feature: Sichuan Earthquake: The Awakened Human

Was it in the movie or in the novel, City of Angel? Well, I don't know. Somewhere, I heard, it has been documented that some people, probably because of poverty, sell their blood. In the recent Sichuan Earthquake, some people could probably earn a fortune... Read on....


Within hours, people rushed to rescue. Blood donation lines run for 100 yards, and people waited hours to donate blood; within 24 hours, all major blood banks ran out storage space. The highway to the earthquake struck city Dujianyang (20 mile from Chengdu) was almost jammed one hour after the earthquake, not by people fleeing the aftershocks, but by volunteers, led by over 1,000 taxi drivers, came from Chengdu to rescue.
Chen Guangbiao(陈光标), owner of a big construction company 1,500 miles from the disaster area, just 2 hour 30 minutes after the earthquake, started transporting 60 construction machineries and led 120 volunteers to rescue. They arrived at the disaster area 24 hours later, almost the same time as Army Engineering Corp.

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