For the past 10 weeks, family and friends of Wang Dan shared her pain as the 6-year-old girl hung on to life after suffering 70 percent burns on her body when she fell into a hearth at home.

Hope for the girl in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, finally flew in from Europe on Friday - all 3,000 sq cm of it.

Doctors at the Wuhan No 3 Hospital used the donated skin, the size of about five pieces of A4-sized writing paper, to cover most of the injured area on the girl, known as Dandan by loved ones.