Chinese students protest in support of a pancake seller with a cancer-stricken wife, lining up in long lines for food

Social media in China was so moved by the plight of a street food vendor whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer that students near his workplace were asked to form long lines at his stall to help him.

University students from Southeast China’s Fujian Province showed up at 54-year-old Hu Weiguang’s flatbread stall near Fujian University of Technology in the provincial capital of Fuzhou.

The students called Hu “Uncle Bread.”

He and his 21-year-old son Hu Jiaming recently discovered lines more than 100 meters long formed by student customers.

It turned out that student Gao Ying posted on social media about Hu’s wife, Hu Guiyuan, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in August, urging other students to support his company.