Yantai City, Shandong Province, east China - Jan 6, 2017
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1. Various of surveillance footage showing elderly lady tripping and falling on escalator
2. Various of surveillance footage showing Yu Haohan (warmhearted man) jumping over counter to help elderly lady

Yantai City, Shandong Province, east China - Jan 12, 2017
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yu Haohan, staff member, real estate registration center (partially overlaid with shot 4):
"I was working when I heard the noise over there. I turned around, and felt a senior citizen, either a woman or man, fell on the escalator. I thought something should be done so that he or she would not be injured, then I stepped on the desk and then on the stool (to jump over the counter), and pulled the elder lady up. That was what happened."

Yantai City, Shandong Province, east China - Jan 6, 2017
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4. Surveillance footage showing Yu jumping over counter to help elderly woman
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5. Surveillance footage showing people helping elderly woman

Yantai City, Shandong Province, east China - Jan 12, 2017
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yu Haohan, staff member, real estate registration center:
"Subconsciously I knew I should offer my help if a person is injured or in need of help. I think that's what one should do."

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7. Various of Yu at work

A warmhearted man has won extensive acclaims for his agility in saving a senior citizen on an escalator on Jan. 6 in east China's Shandong Province.

A footage from surveillance video showed the elderly lady fall to her feet after hesitantly stepping on the escalator in a real estate registration center in Yantai City.

Yu Haohan, the warmhearted man who works at the registration center, jumped over his counter a dozen meters away and rushed to deliver the lady in barely three seconds.

"I was working when I heard the noise over there. I turned around, and felt a senior citizen, either a woman or man, fell on the escalator. I thought something should be done so that he or she woould not be injured, then I stepped on the desk and then on the stool (to jump over the counter), and pulled the elder lady up. That was what happened," recalled Yu in an interview on Thursday.

Yu helped the lady walk to safety before returning to his work. The lady had no injuries.

Yu is a demobilized soldier and during his eight-year service he took part in the relief work in Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the area. The man in his 20s said he offered help out of intuition.

"Subconsciously I knew I should offer my help if a person is injured or in need of help. I think that's what one should do," he said.