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