Photos: China’s “Angel of Nanjing” has helped hundreds back from the brink

rrOn a gray and wet morning, Chen Si patrols the Nanjing bridge hovering above China's Yangtze river, decided to cease the determined from leaping into the swirling waters beneath. Each weekend for 18 years, Chen has volunteered to scout the three-kilometre size of the Nanjing bridge, speaking to a whole lot of individuals pondering of taking their lives and incomes himself the nickname "the Angel of Nanjing". When the bridge was accomplished in 1968, the double-decker Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was celebrated as a feat of Chinese language engineering. It gained a spot within the Guinness Ebook of World Information because the longest twin freeway and railway bridge. However now it's record-setting for a darker motive -- it's believed to be the placement of essentially the most suicides on the planet, having overtaken the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco some years in the past.rr