The First Cross-Provincial Rescue Draws Much Attention
As his number of QQ friends increased, Xu Guodong conceived the idea of establishing a team for rare blood types. He tried gathering these online friends in three local QQ groups in Changsha, Zhuzhou, and Tanxiang, naming them the "Rare Blood Type Alliance," with 200 members.
After a 16-hour journey, the team arrived in Xuzhou at noon on October 29th. Upon stepping off the train, they were warmly welcomed by local media, blood banks, and volunteers. At the train station exit, they also encountered individuals with rare blood types who had rushed from all over the country. That day, they collectively donated 2400 milliliters of blood to Zhang Chuanfu.
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Xu Guodong’s father is also a person with a rare blood type, Rh-negative O-type. In late 2007, his father suffered from leukemia and underwent multiple chemotherapy sessions, losing his ability to produce blood and urgently needing fresh blood. However, due to the limited number of Rh-negative O-type blood members within the alliance, and the few available ones being scattered across different regions of Hunan Province, separated by great distances, when several donors finally managed to arrive, his father was almost gone.
At the beginning of this year, the "Rare Blood Type Alliance" officially changed its name to the "Chinese Rare Blood Type Public Welfare Alliance," expanding its service content to include emergency support for rare blood types, public awareness campaigns about rare blood types and voluntary blood donation knowledge, bone marrow stem cell donation services, social assistance for disadvantaged groups, and other public welfare volunteer activities.
This incident made Xu Guodong realize that the team he established urgently needed to grow. He organized members to go out onto the streets and into communities to widely gather more peer information. Under everyone's efforts, QQ groups named "Rare Blood Type Home" after each city and prefecture in Hunan Province were successively established, and provincial groups like Qinghai and Hebei also sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
Now, every time Xu Guodong opens QQ, there are over a hundred applications to join the group. As of now, the alliance has 19 provincial groups, 11 other provincial domain groups, and 11 mixed groups, with over 4000 members in total.
In 2002, at the age of 25, Xu Guodong was still living a regular life working at Xianggang, not feeling any different from others. It wasn't until a blood test that he learned of his uniqueness—his blood type was Rh-negative B-type. This blood type accounts for an extremely small proportion in the Asian population, approximately 0.3%, commonly known as "panda blood."
Xu Guodong revealed that they are currently in the process of setting up a website for the Chinese Rare Blood Type Public Welfare Alliance (http://www.zxgdl.org). "In the future, everyone will be able to pass on information more quickly and conveniently through the website, making social assistance more timely."
Xu Guodong couldn't help but feel tense, "What if we encounter an urgent need for blood in the future? Will we be able to obtain a timely blood supply?" He began consciously befriending people with rare blood types around him, exchanging phone numbers, and adding them as QQ friends.
Our reporter in Xiangtan (by Zhu Yanhuang) reported: In the movie "Spider-Man," blind brothers raised an abandoned baby for 14 years, once working in a brickyard to earn money for milk powder. High school student Peter was bitten by a spider and gained spider-like special abilities, able to climb walls and became the Spider-Man who saves the world. Xu Guodong, 34 years old, is an ordinary employee at Xianggang. By chance, he discovered that he possesses the rare blood type "panda blood," transforming into the "Panda Hero," saving lives and helping the injured with his friends. Yesterday, the reporter listened to his story.
This loving rescue operation attracted much attention from many media outlets, including CCTV. After Xu Guodong and his team returned to Hunan the next day, some other alliance members continued to rush to Xuzhou to donate blood. Xu Guodong said that this large-scale cross-provincial rescue was the first for the alliance.
On October 22nd this year, an urgent appeal from a Ms. Zhang in Jiangsu frequently appeared in the QQ group of the Chinese Rare Blood Type Alliance. The content roughly stated that her younger brother urgently needed Rh-negative O-type blood, and the situation was very critical.
Upon verification, Ms. Zhang's younger brother was named Zhang Chuanfu, aged 21. On the morning of October 16th, while working at a construction site in Suzhou, Jiangsu, Zhang Chuanfu was suddenly electrocuted by 380 volts of high voltage electricity. After being urgently sent to Ren Ci Trauma Hospital in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, it was confirmed that his burn area reached seventy percent, requiring an urgent second debridement and skin grafting surgery. However, because he had a rare blood type, the blood supply could not keep up, with a shortfall of over 20,000 milliliters, necessitating blood donations from at least 70 people.
The Rare Blood Type Alliance quickly spread this urgent information among its various sub-groups and allied groups, receiving responses from nearly 20 members. Xu Guodong decided to gather ten nearby members together to self-fund their trip to Xuzhou for rescue, while other members would travel individually.
The establishment of the alliance website aims to benefit more people.