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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Every chart, every hieroglyph and every lesson the teacher does flawlessly. For 30 years now, despite having only one healthy arm, he tirelessly continues to make the bright dreams and bright hopes of village children come true.
Tang Guangfang is a rural primary school teacher in Beishan Village, Baibao Township, Quanzhou County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In 1995, he was injured by an electric shock and lost his right arm. Over the next six months, Tang learned to write with his left hand with great difficulty and continued teaching at the rural school. “Destiny deprived me of my right arm, but despite everything, I must pass on complete knowledge to children – not a single punctuation mark should be missed,” he says.
It has been 30 years since Tang Guangfang lost his right arm. Yet, he still stands at the school lectern in the mountain village, doing his job faithfully. Tang Guangfang never thought about retiring, but in October 2025, his retirement time comes. Looking back on his 39 years of teaching in the village, he feels both sad and satisfied. “Because of my physical limitation, I may have tried harder than others. However, I am glad that I never got lazy, gave up, or changed my original intention to teach and educate,” he says.
Photos by Xinhua News Agency correspondent Lu Boan