Chinese police have identified one of the two drivers who ran over two-year-old Yueyue on Oct 13 and charged him with hit-and-run death.

Reports identified the first driver as 24-year-old Hu Jun, who was quoted in media as saying he deliberately run over Yueyue because it would cost him only a few thousand yuans to pay in compensation as compared to the huge amount needed had the toddler survived. He faces three to seven years of prison term if convicted of the charge.

Some bloggers had called for the execution of the two drivers. Reports said the second driver had also been arrested.

With the death on Friday of the girl, which topped trending in Weibo - China's version of Twitter, Guangzhou lawmakers are now considering introducing a Good Samaritan law that would punish passer-bys who would refused to help people in need. A blogger suggested that the law be named Yueyue law.

That would be a complete turnaround from the current situation in which people who have helped strangers were even fined hefty penalties for their kind act because of lawsuits brought by the very people they assisted. It was that fear that caused most of the 18 passers-by caught on video footage to ignore the bleeding child after she was hit by the two vans.

To further encourage students to be Good Samaritans, the Wu Zhipan, vice president of Peking University, posted an offer in Weibo of free legal support from the university's law school for any Beida student involved in Good Samaritan cases. If the student would lose the lawsuit, the school would cover up to 200,000 yuans in legal expenses and the university alumni would help raise funds to pay for expenses beyond 200,000 yuans.

Even local communist officials are advocating for a moral education among Chinese.

"We should look into the ugliness in ourselves with a dagger of conscience and bit the soul-searching bullet," Mail Online quoted Wang Yang, a top official in Guangzhou.

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