Chinese netizens help boy in US with cancer realize his dream

Eight-year-old wishes to be famous in China 'before I go to heaven'

Thousands of Chinese Internet users are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken boy from the United States to realize his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, has been receiving responses from Chinese netizens in recent days. Among them are many from Chinese standing on the Great Wall in Beijing and holding signs saying "#D-Strong" and "You are very famous in China." It is Dorian's dream to be famous in China and to see the Great Wall, which he called "kind of a bridge. People walk on it."

Dorian has been fighting rhabdomyosarcoma, a pediatric cancer, since he was 4. Although the disease had been brought under control after a series of painful treatments, a medical checkup early this month found that cancer cells had spread to the boy's spinal cord and brain. The family decided to halt treatment.