Summer gives students time to boost their resumes or fatten their wallets by doing internships or part-time jobs. But as floods, heat waves and mudslides began stealing the summer’s headlines, a few students decided to use their time in a more meaningful way--by helping others. Wang Kai, a sophomore at Chongqing University of Technology, used his micro-blog to send out some of the earliest details about mudslide-stricken Zhouqu, in Gansu province. Before journalists could reach the town, Wang was operating like a one-man news agency, jotting down what he saw with his phone and digital camera. His blog quickly became one of the public’s main sources of information about the disaster. "In fact, I am also a victim of the disaster," Wang told the Sunday News Weekly. "Some of my relatives died in the mudslide, but I thought I should do something to help so I used my micro-biog." Then there’s Chengdu University of Information Technology sophomore, Zhao Yan. The 19-year-old from Wenchuan, Sichuan province, believes that self-rescue and pre-disaster prevention are of vital importance after a disaster strikes. Along with some 2,000 peers all over the country, Zhao helped to go into 200 different underdeveloped regions in July to educate locals about what they can do to protect themselves amid nature’s fury. "Many of the lives lost in earthquakes and floods are due to the absence of basic knowledge of prevention, evacuation and rescue," said Zhao. "The tips we gave to those residents could save lives." Ren Jia, 20, a Wuhan University of Technology junior, spent the summer walking along the shore of the Yangtze River in Wuhan city. And some of her friends warned her of wasting precious time to gain experience. But the widening river, she says, is making some riverbanks accessible to kids and putting them at risk. Ren cannot just stand by and do nothing. "Every year, I hear news about kids drowning while swimming in rivers," said Ren. "So I decided to monitor some of the risky spots in order to keep kids away from the water." Even business-minded students are finding ways to help the needy. Guangzhou University sophomore, Xu Lishan, 19, has opened a Taobao store and begun selling accessories. She says she will collect all the money she has earned from the "business" and then donate it to disaster victims. "In recent years, our country has experienced a lot of disasters which made me think. I feet I am obliged to do something, even though I cannot go to the disaster-stricken regions personally," said Xu. University officials have high praise for students who are willing to sacrifice cash and experience to help others. "When they help others without condition, they realize their responsibilities to others and to society," said Zhao Yanhong, a staff member in the student affairs office at Beijing University of Technology. "This is, in fact, the most decisive factor for their future success.\ The purposes of the Zhao’s going into 200 different underdeveloped regions in July to educate locals exclude his belief that ______.
A. self-rescue and pre-disaster prevention are of vital importance after a disaster strikes
B. he should teach locals how to protect themselves amid nature’s fury
C. these regions are disaster- stricken areas
D. some of them have no basic knowledge of prevention