At the award ceremony (颁奖典礼) of Touching China 2021, a young girl caught many people'sattention. The girl's name is Jiang Mengnan. Her life story touched many people'shearts.
Jiang was born in a loving family in 1992. However,something sad happened when she was six months old. She lost the ability tohear because of a terrible illness.
When Jiang was about one year old, her parents beganhelping her learn pronunciation and lip-reading (唇读). Jiang needed to practice over 1,000 times to learn how topronounce each Chinese character correctly. Jiang often sat in front of the TVwith her parents beside her and carefully looked at the lips of the newspresenters (播报员).
At the age of seven, Jiang was able to "see"what others were saying. Then she went to primary school to have a normal life.
Jiang went to Jilin University later. She finished allher courses there and then made it all the way to Tsinghua University.
"I'm always thankful for the love I have receivedfrom my parents, teachers and friends," she said. "They never give mespecial attention, and I've never considered myself different from anyone else."
