"Laowai" in China | Russian girl on graduation trip rescues drowning elderly woman in E China's Shaoxing

Xinhua
26 Jun 2025, 12:15 GMT+10

HUZHOU, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Gubaidullina Shakhnaz Evgenevna, a Russian girl studying in Huzhou City, has recently gone viral on Chinese social media. She just graduated from Huzhou University with an undergraduate degree. On June 23, she witnessed an elderly woman falling into the water, when she traveled to Shaoxing City of Zhejiang Province on her graduation trip. She did not hesitate to jump into the water and tried to rescue her who was sinking.

Thanks to the joint efforts of hers and the residents on the shore, the elderly woman was successfully rescued. The process of saving the woman's life by Shakhnaz was captured by surveillance camera and spread on the Internet, which won the praise of netizens.

Shakhnaz came to China in the year of 2016. Studying and living in China for many years, she likes Chinese culture very much. She is the only foreign female member of the school's lion dance team. Although she has graduated from the university, Shakhnaz doesn't want to leave Huzhou. She has applied for graduate school of Huzhou University and has finished the admissions interview. "I like here very much. I want to continue studying here and maybe stay and live here," said Shakhnaz.

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