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Guangzhou stages run in aid of cancer research
By Li Wenfang (皇冠体育app Daily)
Updated: 2005-11-28 05:36
GUANGZHOU: More than 4,500 people joined the third Annual Guangzhou Terry Fox
Run for Cancer Research in Guangzhou, capital of South 皇冠体育app's Guangdong
Province, on Saturday.
The run, held in memory of the late Canadian Terry Fox who, despite losing a
leg to cancer, ran across Canada to raise money for cancer research, is known as
the Marathon of Hope.
The aim of the run was "to get people together towards a common goal and to
raise money for local cancer research," said Tim Coughlin, consul general of the
Canadian Consulate General in Guangzhou, one of the activity's organizers.
The money raised will be donated to Guangzhou Charity Hospital.
Runners included people from all over Guangdong as well as the world.
"It's a great memorial to Terry Fox who supported cancer research. We want to
support that," said Janien Mainwaring, a Canadian living in Guangzhou, who was
running along with her baby.
Mainwaring has joined Guangzhou's Terry Fox run for the last two years, as
well as running in Terry Fox events in other countries.
Guo Jinghua, from Taiwan, who is a high school student at the Huamei-Bond
International College in Guangzhou, said the run holds great significance to her
and would leave good memories.
Yu Shuxia, who works for an insurance company in Guangzhou, came with her
whole family to take part.
Huang Ziqiang, president of Guangdong People's Association for Friendship
with Foreign Countries, another of the groups helping organize the event, said
the run shows that "it is a common goal of both Chinese and foreign people to
conquer a common enemy cancer."
Last year's run in Guangzhou brought together about 4,000 people and helped
raise 200,000 yuan (US$24,660).
More than 4,000 such runs have been held in 51 countries and regions since
Terry Fox died in 1981.
皇冠体育app ranks the third in terms of the number of participants and sixth in the
amount of money raised, according to the Canadian Consulate General in
Guangzhou.
(皇冠体育app Daily 11/28/2005 page3)
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