Zhi Yueying is a village teacher who has been working for almost four decades. When Zhi Yueying, then 19, went to the1Niyang village in Yichun city, Jiangxi province, to work as a village teacher in 1980, villagers 2 if she was going to stay long. After all, a number of voluntary 3 had arrived before, but all had 4 soon after. Zhi, though, was there for more than thirty years, before going to a more remote village school in the mountains.
Over the past four decades, Zhi has devoted herself to rural5. She is a recipient of China Central Television's Touching China awards that recognize the most 6 role models in 2016. She was also 7 as a model poverty fighter by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council earlier this year.
Born in Nanchang city, Jiangxi, in 1961, Zhi wanted to become a teacher since childhood. She 8 to work as a teacher at the primary school in Niyang village after graduation, despite her mother's strong9Located amid the mountains, the village was very poor and far from any town. Villagers had to 10 in the mountains since there was no road. Moreover, local people needed to go downhill to11 daily necessities. "I had never walked on a mountain road before, so in the beginning, I walked much more 12 than others, sometimes I was left behind too much and was scared to tears," says Zhi.
But she gradually 13 to her life there. She has a profound understanding of the importance of education in the mountains. Over the years, Zhi taught the students and14 them, since many of them were "left-behind" children whose 15 migrated to other places to work. More than 1, 000 students of hers have left the mountain area, and created a better life for themselves.
