A man who was left in a coma following a car accident in east China has woken after 12 years.

The first thing he saw were tears streaming down the face of his 75-year-old mother, who had been by his bedside day and night for over a decade.

The loving mother, Wei Mingying, had spent her entire life savings on her son's medical expenses and had even taken on a 120,000 yuan (£13,000) debt. At one point, she was so poor that she didn't eat for an entire month, she told reporters.