Doctors who treated the footless "basketball girl" Qian Hong-yan at the China Rehabilitation Research Centre in Beijing now again made miracles, their efforts have let halfman Peng Shui-lin be able to walk with two bionic legs that are attached to a sophisticated egg cup-like casing. What an indigenous way!
Peng was cut in two by a lorry in 1995, which caused him to have only 78cm (2ft 6in) tall upper body. It was little short of a medical miracle that he lived.
Read also two other moved stories on Chinese armless woman Ren Ji-mei (video) and Japanese armless and feetless schoolteacher Hirotada Ototake.
