Let us get together to help Xiamen marathon girl

Yesterday morning, more than 160 citizens who all love running went to the Coastal Road together to donate for Zheng Ping in Xiamen who is called as the marathon girl. It is understood that after knowing the news of zheng ping's illness, a lot of runners everywhere around the country sympathize her who is poor but loves the marathon so much. Yesterday, there are thousands of runners from eight cities including Dalian hold a running fund-raising activity for Zheng Ping.
On 9 am yesterday morning in Fu Jia Zhuang, the reporter noted that some persons have already began to sell products for charity and donate for Zheng Ping. Yu Lei is the person who holds this donation activity as well as sells his commemorative medal of cross-country running game for charity. Yu Lei told the reporter that he was so moved that he made up his mind to help Zheng Ping when he knew the story of her by computer and from runners in Xiamen around ten days ago.
According to what Yu Lei said, aged 22, Zheng Ping comes from a remote countryside in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. She worked in Xiamen alone from her sixteen years old in order to help her parents to take care of her younger sisters and brothers. Zheng Ping joins Xiamen part-time running team after work and she finishes 42.195 km marathon in three hours and 30 minutes which will make her rank in the top 100 among all of the female athletes in China. In others mind, Zheng Ping is tall, kind, passionate, helpful and easy-going. At the end of last year, the legs and throat of Zheng Ping swelled and were painful. Because of low income, she always insists in working. She did not go to the hospital for a thorough examination for the first time until early April of this year being helped by Xiamen runners, but she was diagnosed with acute leukemia.
Yu Lei tells the reporter that according to local doctors introduction and the initial diagnosis, the cure rate of Zheng Ping's disease is more than sixty percent and the treatment cost is around 400 thousand Yuan. With the help of so many runners, Zheng Ping is now treated in a normal hospital in Xiamen city.
Since it is difficult to cobble together the cost of treatment, Xiamen runners ask for the help of other runners in the country through internet. About ten days after sending out this message, so many runners in eight cities come to help. Today, runners coming from eight cities including Dalian, Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Yantai raise money by running. Yu Lei tells reporters that more than there are more than 160 runners in Dalian have joined this fund-raising activity as well as some companies including a sports goods shop selling sports goods in the value around ten thousand for charity and a marketing director of a sea cucumber company promising to donate 100 Yuan as long as any runner runs for 10 kilometers.
The running activity began officially about ten o'clock yesterday morning when more than 160 runner ran from Fu Jia Zhuang to the destination of North Bridge with blessing banners for Zheng in hand. Many visitors paid attention on this activity and donated for Zheng Ping. The activity ended in half past eleven yesterday morning. This reporter learned that the total money raised is up to 24,000 Yuan which includes 10,000 Yuan donated by the sea cucumber company because there were 100 runners totally finishing10 km and fund raised by runners there. Yu Lei says that he will give the money to Zheng Ping as soon as possible with a hope that the love from Dalian runners will love her to overcome the disease and return to the running team soon.