Chinese college students want to do volunteer work and would not hesitate to help "elderly people who fall over in the street", according to a report released on Saturday.
Most of the college students are willing to take part in voluntary work including environmental protection, teaching in remote villages and earthquake relief. And 83.1 percent actually do volunteer work every year.
The report, by Wuhan University in Hubei province, is based on research from 30 universities across China.
The question of what is the right thing to do when an old person falls over in the street has been debated since an incident in 2006 when a man called Peng Yu helped an old woman who fell over in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The woman later alleged that she was knocked down by Peng and asked him to pay 40 percent of her medical costs after Peng escorted her to a hospital. However, the report found that 91.6 percent of students who were surveyed said they would help an elderly person in these circumstances.
Li Ruixue, 19, a student at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, said she would ask professionals to help an elderly person up from a fall, rather than do so herself, because she lacks medical experience. "But I would like to try more, like the volunteers who help passengers at railway stations. I think their work is quite meaningful."
"I think we should encourage more college students into voluntary work," said Tao from Shanghai University."The next step would be helping them to be more professional in helping others by forming nongovernmental organizations or offering training."
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