In China, bank employees spent 22 days gluing together banknotes cut up by a depressed woman (2 photos)

In Kunming, a woman surnamed Zhang brought small fragments of banknotes to the Industrial Commercial Bank of China asking to restore them. She said that five years ago, the notes were cut up by her sister-in-law, who suffered from mental illness and severe depression.





The girl recently died, and the family urgently needed money. The deceased's husband lives with four children in a mountain village in Sichuan Province. When Zhang visited her brother in the village, he asked her to try to hand over the shredded notes to the bank.

Although Chinese regulations require banks to exchange incomplete or soiled banknotes for free, many credit institutions refused Zhang's request. Bank representatives said that it would be too difficult for them to put the fragments back together.

When the woman contacted the Industrial and Commercial Bank, they immediately met her halfway. The organization assigned four employees to restore the banknotes. Over the course of 22 days, they glued together more than 100,000 fragments (some smaller than a fingernail) from three different types of banknotes. They used magnifying glasses in their work.

In the end, the employees managed to restore banknotes worth a total of 32,000 yuan.

In gratitude, Zhang ordered a silk banner for the bank with the words: "Pay attention to people's difficulties, solve problems, and warm hearts."