Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese

STORY: Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese DATELINE: March 5, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:49 LOCATION: TIANJIN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Peter Mecoy 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin STORYLINE: Fifty-eight-year-old Peter Mecoy is an Australian expat living in north China's Tianjin. He has been volunteering to donate blood and platelets almost every 15 days since 2008. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): PETER MECOY, Australian volunteer blood donor in Tianjin "In China, my blood type is called 'panda blood.' It's Type A RhD-negative blood. Maybe my blood can help mothers delivering babies or aged people in surgery. I am happy to be helpful." Peter has donated blood and platelets more than 270 times, equivalent to more than 420,000 milliliters of blood in terms of therapeutic vol

CHINA-TIANJIN-BLOOD DONATION-AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-BLOOD DONATION-AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER (CN)

(230205) -- TIANJIN, Feb. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Peter Mecoy poses for a photo while donating blood at the Tianjin Blood Center in Tianjin, north China, Nov. 14, 2022. TO GO WITH "Across China: Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese" (Xinhua)

CHINA-TIANJIN-BLOOD DONATION-AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER (CN)

CHINA-TIANJIN-BLOOD DONATION-AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER (CN)

(230205) -- TIANJIN, Feb. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Peter Mecoy (R) holds two pieces of paper with handwritten words reading "I love China" and "I love Tianjin" at home in Tianjin, north China, Nov. 14, 2022. TO GO WITH "Across China: Australian volunteer forms blood bond with Chinese" (Xinhua)