By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-01 06:09:47 | Updated at 2024-11-01 08:31:15
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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.
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.
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.
