China honors grassroots role models of the year
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Ten individuals or groups were honored as 2019 role models Thursday at an award ceremony in Beijing held by Xinhua News Agency.
Among the laureates were Eli Niyaz, a forest ranger in Yuli County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, who has devoted himself to protecting the trees for over 26 years.
Other laureates include a woman who saved her father by giving skin grafts, a couple who helped a sick hairdresser, a food delivery worker who has only one hand and one leg, a firefighter who removed four burning gas tanks from a warehouse fire, and a group of voluntary teachers.
The role models were selected by netizens and experts.
A special award was given to Zhang Fuqing, a 95-year-old war hero, for his contributions during and after his military service.
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