Millions of people in China were moved by the story of a secondary school graduate who put off university to care for her seriously ill mother – and of the classmates who donated their treasured collections to help her.
Cao Feng, a graduating student at Yuwang Secondary School in central China’s Anhui province, recently decided to give up her place at university so she could care for her mother, who is hospitalised in Shanghai.
Cao’s mother, Cuiping, 47, has generalised myasthenia gravis, a chronic condition that causes muscle weakness, as well as a thymic tumour. She was recently admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with respiratory failure.