Chen Si
Chen Si () (born 1968) is a Chinese man who has stopped more than 400 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China. Early life Si was born in Suqian in the province of Jiangsu. After dealing with poverty as a child, he dropped out of high school and left for Nanjing. After opening an independent fruit stand in the 1990s, he saw his fortunes improve. Interventions He first intervened in someone's suicide attempt in 2000, and saved the woman's life. Since 19 December 2003, Chen Si has spent every weekend on the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a notorious spot from which to commit suicide. Chen patrols the bridge on foot and on his motorbike, looking for people who might be contemplating suicide. To Chen, these are people "who look depressed, those whose psychological pressure is great" and whose "way of walking is very passive with no spirit, or no direction." He then approaches them and tries to talk to them; sometimes they are already over th ...
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Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge (), previously called the First Nanjing Yangtze Bridge, is a double-decked road-rail truss bridge across the Yangtze River in Nanjing, Jiangsu, connecting the city's Pukou and Gulou districts. Its upper deck is part of China National Highway 104, spanning . Its lower deck, with a double-track railway, is long, and completes the Beijing–Shanghai railway, which had been divided by the Yangtze for decades. Its right bridge consists of nine piers, with the maximum span of and the total length of . The bridge carries approximately 80,000 vehicles and 190 trains per day. The bridge was completed and open for traffic in 1968. It was the third bridge over the Yangtze after the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge and the Chongqing Baishatuo Yangtze River Bridge. It was the first heavy bridge designed and built using Chinese expertise. Suicide site According to state media, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge surpassed the Golden Gate Bridge as the most frequ ...
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