Recently, an owner of a bookstore in England turned to people in the community (社区) for help. He had to move lots of books and other things to his new store. Although the new one was not far from the street, it was not an easy thing. So he came up with an idea. He put up a notice in the community saying that his bookstore needed some volunteers. And all kinds of people could offer to help.
He had planned to finish the moving work in a week. At the beginning, there were only 10 people ran between the old store and the new one. However, the situation didn't last for a long time. More and more community members came to help him soon. On the weekend, more than 650 volunteers showed up at the store to help him move their books into the new one. So the owner decided to change the way of moving books. Instead of carrying things from the old store to the new one by each person, they formed a human chain (组成人链) between the two stores. Then they just needed to pass those books from person to person to send them to the new store. With the line of people volunteering between the two stores, the whole process (过程) took about 45 minutes.
The owner was also a part of the human chain. He felt glad to see the power of so many people in action.
