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China students rally for pancake vendor with cancer-hit wife, form long queues to buy food

People from near and far come to help street vendor, buy most expensive items so he can tend to sick wife, pay hospital bills

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People from far and wide have rallied to help a street food vendor in China whose wife has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Fran Luin Beijing

Social media in China was so moved by the plight of a street food vendor whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer that students near where he worked were prompted to form long queues at his stall to help him out.

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University students in southeastern China’s Fujian province turned up at the flatbread stall of Hu Weiguang, 54, near the Fujian University of Technology in the province’s capital city Fuzhou.

Hu has been fondly nicknamed by students as “Uncle Flatbread”.

He and his 21-year-old son Hu Jiaming found queues more than 100 metres long formed by student customers recently.

Hu’s situation attracted the attention of the media, leading to him getting even more help. Photo: FZ Evening News
Hu’s situation attracted the attention of the media, leading to him getting even more help. Photo: FZ Evening News

It transpired that a student, Gao Ying, posted the news about Hu’s wife, Hu Guiyuan, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August, on social media, calling for other students to support his business.

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