Wang Zhengxiang (1st R) sends students back home after school in Sanmeng village of Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county, Southwest China’s Yunnan province, Sept 5, 2018. One teacher, eight students, none was and will be given up thanks to rural teacher Wang Zhengxiang. Wang Zhengxiang of Miao ethnic group, 56, is the only teacher and has been teaching at the remote village primary school of Ayiyang for 38 years. Ayiyang Primary School, lying at an altitude of 2,600 meters above sea level and surrounded by mountains, is not within easy reach of outside world. There are just eight students at the school. Yet Wang takes care of his students with love, consideration and strong sense of responsibility. He buys shoes and daily goods for poverty-stricken students with his own money, and he has tried every means to keep those who wanted to drop out due to economic insufficiency. [Photo/Xinhua]
Wang Zhengxiang prepares meals for students at Ayiyang Primary School in Sanmeng village of Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county, Southwest China’s Yunnan province, Sept 6, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Wang Zhengxiang (R) teaches a student at Ayiyang Primary School in Sanmeng village of Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county, Southwest China’s Yunnan province, Sept 6, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Wang Zhengxiang (1st R) corrects students’ homework at Ayiyang Primary School in Sanmeng village of Luquan Yi and Miao autonomous county, Southwest China’s Yunnan province, Sept 6, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Jiang Xiulan, 53, explains the meaning of a Chinese character as she teaches in a class of Qingxi Central Primary School in Chaerlong village, Wushi town, Huangshan city of East China’s Anhui province, Sept 7, 2018. Since 1983 when she began her career as a teacher, Jiang has been working in the ’one teacher in one school’ model in which all the subjects of all the students in the school is taught by a single teacher. Jiang is now giving a curriculum of seven courses in the school where a total of five students study in two grades. [Photo/Xinhua]
Jiang Xiulan explains as her students study in a class in Qingxi Central Primary School in Chaerlong village, Wushi town, Huangshan city of East China’s Anhui province, Sept 7, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Luo Qianhong, a teacher with Yuanping special school for the disabled students, gestures as she communicates with students in the school in Shenzhen of South China’s Guangdong province on Sept 7, 2018. Luo, a hearing-impaired former graduate from the school, began to work as a teacher in the school in 2006 when she finished her university study. Good at communication and willing to help, Luo became popular with hearing-impaired students who distinguished in return with outstanding performances thanks to her influence and encouragement. [Photo/Xinhua]
Luo Qianhong (L), a teacher with Yuanping special school for the disabled students, gestures as she communicates with students in the school in Shenzhen of South China’s Guangdong province on Sept 7, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
Guo Yue teaches during a class in Guozhai Primary School, Taihe county of East China’s Anhui province, Sept 7, 2018. Guo, suffering a chronic loss of eyesight due to an illness a few years after he began his career as teacher in 1986, managed to keep teaching in the school. Almost totally blind, Guo also teaches in music and ethical education classes in addition to Chinese. [Photo/Xinhua]
With help of students, Guo Yue corrects students’ papers in Guozhai Primary School, Taihe county of East China’s Anhui province, Sept 7, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
