A year-old girl from southwest China's Sichuan Province was invited by China Central Television CCTV to attend an awards ceremony held in Beijing on November 7th, in honor of her dedication to and love for her mom during her rehabilitation period.
The award ceremony was organized by CCTV to select and present titles and prizes to outstanding young people nationwide for their filial piety in their personal lives. Cai Chengcheng is a fifth-grade student in an elementary school of Junlian County in the city of Yibin.
She had a normal life like many of her peers until her mom, Chen Li, was suddenly hospitalized with a cerebral hemorrhage in October After a while, Chen was transferred to West China Hospital affiliated to Sichuan University in Chengdu, where she underwent a surgery that brought her back from the brink of death but left her unable to wake up again at the beginning. Thus, Chen was declared in a temporary vegetative state.
Cai, nevertheless, would often make phone call to Chen every day when she was still in the Chengdu-based hospital, and hoped for her mom to recover from unconsciousness as soon as possible. Cai and her older brother were brought from their home to Chengdu to stay with their mom in the ward each weekend in a move to improve her condition.
To her family's delight, Chen miraculously woke up and regained some consciousness after having been hospitalized in Chengdu for more than a month.
