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'Grassroots philanthropist' donates foods to quake zone (4)

(People's Daily Online)

16:18, April 24, 2013

Alimu (R) and staff members carry the relief materials in Urumqi Airport on April 22, 2013. (Photo/Xinjiang)

Edited and translated by Wang Xin, People' Daily Online.

Alimu is a street food seller in southwest China's Guizhou province. He has help more than 100 poor students to continue their studies, so people kindly called him the "grassroots philanthropist".

After learning the deadly earthquake that jolted Lushan country, Alimu and other Xinjiang-based businessmen sent 2,000 pancakes, 3,000 boxes of convenient foods and drinking water as well as other relief materials to the quake-hit zone from Urumqi on April 22.

He said the relief materials will be distributed to rescuers and people in the quake-hit areas for free.

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First night after deadly earthquake

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>>>Quake-hit China grows in pain

The principle of sparing no efforts to save lives cannot be more stressed. No minute or even second should be delayed during the "golden rescue period" in the first 72 hours after the quake.

>>>Pilot cancels wedding to participate in quake relief

When the 7.0-magnitude quake happened, Zhang Shangnian, a pilot from an aviation brigade of Chengdu Military Region, was about to hold his wedding.

>>>Nurse returns to work after losing mother

Just likes other medical staff, she was busy with rescuing people injured in the earthquake in SW China, but no one knew her mother just died in the quake.

>>>Wedding ceremony without bridegroom held on schedule

Zhuo Jia, the bridegroom, is a solider of the Chengdu Military Region; he had to leave his beautiful bride behind to participate in earthquake relief.

>>>An injured girl's smile moves many

"Your smile makes the entire world beautiful,” a photo of a smiling girl with bandage on her head has moved so many Chinese netizens.

>>>Teenager saves mom with his bare hands

The mother moves away a precast slab weighing over 50 kilograms alone to save her son in the earthquake. She said she did not know where her strength came from.

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