It's spring again: Stronger after the pandemic

Wang Yong

"I'm glad that I walked out of my home and did my bit, or I will regret for it for the rest of my life."

Wang Yong never thought he, an ordinary courier, could make headlines before the pandemic.

On Jan 25, 2020, Wang, who was on Spring Festival holiday, decided to drive his car to Jinyintan Hospital to ferry medical workers who were stranded at the hospital as bus and subway services were suspended in Wuhan.

Starting with one car, the 35-year-old Wuhan native assembled a group of volunteers, who together solved many pressing problems the frontline medical workers encountered.

During the Wuhan lockdown period, he managed to mobilize an incredible scale of resources to support medical workers: organizing a volunteer car fleet to transport them to and from the hospital, coordinating restaurants to provide nearly 16,000 meals a day, allocating medical supplies and materials as well as meeting other demands from buying slippers to repairing glasses and phones.

Wang's parents said this is the most courageous thing their introverted son had done in his life.

Reflecting on the past year, Wang said that "I'm glad I walked out of my home and did my bit, or I would have regretted it for the rest of my life".

As COVID-19 is largely under control in China, Wang has set his eyes on charity. A charity project he participated in has offered tuition for 4,357 poor students affected by the pandemic in Hubei province.