GIFT OF LIFE
Baby who had a miraculous escape as a child now has child of her own
At about 3 am on March 7, Li Heng gave birth to a little boy, weighing 7.4 pounds at the People's Hospital in Zhongmu county, in Henan province.
Her family wept for joy as the little boy was born. But, the birth of her child was also a reminder of her near brush with death 24 years ago.
On Oct 15, 1995, when Li Heng was only one and a half years old, she was taken to Zhengzhou by her mother to visit her father who was working at a construction site.
Then, she accidentally fell into an eight-meter-deep pit at the site.
It took more than 300 policemen, medical workers and municipal workers three hours to rescue this little girl.
Now, this story has another chapter as Li Heng has a baby of her own.
At about 3 am on March 7, Li Heng gave birth to a little boy, weighing 7.4 pounds at the People's Hospital in Zhongmu county in Henan province.
the very moment she was rescued out of the pit in 1995;
she fed the sheep in 2000.
Li Heng helped her family to do farm work when she was 11;
Li Heng uses her spare time to work in the fields, lightening family burden;
she learns computer in Zhengzhou Institute of Technology.
she got married on Dec 3 last year;