The 63-year-old Zhang Guimei is the principal and founder of Huaping High School for Girls. Twenty years ago, after she went to teach in Huaping County, she happened to know that many girls just disappeared before they finished their studies. She learned that some of them were forced to work and others got married at a young age.

During a home visit, she ran into a l3-year-old girl sitting on the side of the road. The girl cried and told her, “I want to study, I don’t want to marry.” It turned out that the girl’s parents asked her to drop out of school to marry just for 30,000 yuan.

Zhang came to the girl’s house angrily and told her mother, “I will take the child away, and I will pay for her school fees.” But the girl’s mother threatened (威胁) Zhang with death if she stopped the marriage. Finally, Zhang gave up.

“I never saw the girl again. This is a regret I have had in the whole life”, she said.

Since then, a dream has gradually come into being in her heart. Setting up a free high school so that poor girls living in the mountains can get an education.

It is difficult to set up a school, but she never stopped. After years of trying to raise money, in 2008, the Huaping High School for Girls, a free public high school, was founded at the foot of the Shizi Mountain in Huaping.

In the summer of 2011, 100 percent of the first generation of Huaping High School for Girls graduates passed the college entrance examination.

So far, about 1,804 poor girls have been sent to universities, successfully changing their lives.

Chai Lin, an old man from Gansu, China, loved bicycles when he was young. In 1980 he got his first bicycle. It cost him 880 yuan. It was a lot of money at that time. After becoming a businessman years later, Chai had enough money to buy nice motorbikes and cars, but he still loved bicycles, He began to collect bicycles of different brands (品牌) and ages from all over the world.

He collected more than 1300 bicycle. In 2009, he started building a museum in Lanzhou just for his bicycles. After 10 years, the Gansu Sanmu Bicycles Museum finally opened to the public in January for free. It is 18650 square meters. The museum collects not only bicycles, but also 13500 bicycle-related accessories (零件), books and photos. The museum is popular with visitors. In the first half of 2021 alone, it got more than 900000 visitors.