Qu Liang was born in 1979. Unfortunately the crying baby was unable to see this world with his eyes. The in-born cataract left him just a ghost of light.

From that moment on, his parents went on a long road of seeking for medical assistance for their poor child.

They poured all their savings on an operation performed in Shanghai, which later brought his eyesight barely up to 0.06 by the eyesight standard.

Qu Liang was a hardworking student at school. He listened to the class with all his attention. He could reel off almost all the texts he had learned in the class.

When he started his middle school, his eyesight turned worse He could not get clear reading of the books any more . He had to continue his study with the aid of a magnifying lens of 30X for reading every character one by on e in all the books he was learning.

In 1998, with his tenacious perseverance, Qu was finally enrolled to the special education college of Changchun University , majoring in acupuncture and massage. Long before he went to the college, Qu had already been filled with some knowledge about computers, now the mouse-controlled speaking software designed for the blind helped open a broader space for him.

In the Spring, 2002, Qu,Liang, together with 4 other schoolmates, decided to set up an on-line family for all the blind throughout the country. They conveyed the idea to the relevant department of the college, hoping that they could be shored up with some equipment and the site for their work. But to their dismay, they were told  what they were going to do was impossible. That being the case, Qu and his schoolmates had to do their web pages in the school computer room. They pooled their own money  and bought a domain name for the website. He devoted all his spare time on the website. After several months of hard work and struggle, they pulled off the construction of their own website-“Huaxia Net of the Blind” and put it into operation on the 20th International Day of Disable Persons, which was the first website of public interest ever worked out by blind people in this country. 

The website received extensive support from blind people from all over the country and abroad shortly after it made its appearance on the net.

The volume of the clicks has come up to 950,000 to date. Qu Liang and his schoolmates have made many friends through the website. A young man in the US, named Boran, a mixed blood of American and Chinese, was interested in whatever it is about China. He could speak excellent Chinese, for his mom was from Beijing, but he had found no way appropriate for him to know about China, since his eyes were sightless. The“Huaxia Net of the Blind”opened a window for him. He then could learn the information about the blind in China. In addition to that, he could even communicate with young friends in China. After the website had been running for half a year, Boran made a special trip to Changchun to visit Qu Liang and all his friends in China.

Qu Liang returned to Dalian after graduation in 2003. At the time, a very few of the blind people in Dalian visited the website. He was very worried about it, since he knew that what a broad “Window of the World” the internet brought about for the blind. He then held the training classes for 3 times at Dalian Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. He trained more than 60 people and applied for QQ accounts for them.

“There are over 30 ,000 blind people in Dalian. But only several dozens of them are paying a regular visit to the internet.” He sighed. “Life of blind people is closed in too tightly. They  need extremely to be infused with new knowledge and new information through the internet.”

In June, 2006, Qu Liang got married with Xu Jian, a bright girl from Harbin, who is 1 year younger than him and  is Qu Liang’s schoolmate. She majored in music during her study in Changchun University. She lost her sight as a result of an illness at the age of 12.

Both of them have deep relish for the internet, and on-line movies are their favorites. “Chinese language is very beautiful and Listening to good lines is an enjoyable thing.” Xu Jian told the reporter.

It is noticed by the reporter that the young couple's room is full of the wedding photos hung everywhere. “We are the first couple who have wedding photos taken in Dalian.”said Xu Jian proudly. Intrigued by them, many blind schoolmates had their wedding photos taken when getting married. “Although we can't see, we believe those photos must be very beautiful.”she said to the reporter.

Now the couple is leading a downscale life. Qu Liang, with 5 years's learning in massage as his major, opened up a massage clinic at first, but it had to be closed down because the house was demolished and relocated. He is staying at home jobless at present. Xu Jian, graduating from the music department, now works with an art group of the municipal Disabled Persons' Federation. But most of their performances are oriented for public welfare, she hardly makes any earnings out of it. Qu Liang still has to spend over 1,000 yuan every year on the website to keep it running. He hopes his website will bring blind people to communicate with each other in a way ordinary people do, broaden the reading scope and step out of the closed world inside themselves, just as a line of words he writes on the website: “Though our wings are broken, we can still fly with our heart and soul.” .

(Dalian Daily)