Pi Anrui, an Australian working in Tianjin, has won citywide plaudits for making 270 donations of his rare blood type Rh-negative over the past three decades, benefiting  thousand of patients. 

The type of blood is hailed as "panda blood" in China because only about three in 1,000 people have it.

He goes to the Tianjin Blood Center twice a month to donate platelets, which amounts to 24 times a year.

"My father is a doctor and my mother is a nurse. I have known that I have a rare blood type since I was a child, and I have donated blood regularly since I was in college,” the 58-year-old Australian with a Chinese name Pi Anrui said.

Cao Meng, head of publicity department of Tianjin Blood Center, said that the amount of blood Pi has donated over the years has helped a thousand of patients. Love knows no borders, and Pi’s action has moved Tianjin residents.

He was awarded the National Blood Donation Lifetime Honor announced recently.

Pi was dispatched to Tianjin for work in 1992. "The hospitality of Tianjin people made me fall in love with this place deeply," he said.

He then married his wife from Tianjin, and forged a "love and blood bond" with this city.

On Dec 29, Pi is about to complete his 24th blood donation this year, and his 271st blood donation since he came to Tianjin.