Introduction There are many moving stories in 2011, including stories of environment protection, care for the disabled, rural education promotion and other moving stories. The people in these stories are ordinary, but they have the most beautiful souls, for example, Yang Shanzhou who spent 22 years planting trees and bringing relative prosperity to a small town in Yunnan province; Hou Jinlin, a cleaner at Xiangshan Park in northwestern Beijing, Liu Yuzhen, a volunteer garbage collector in Tian'anmen Square; Wan Ping, 59, once an engineer at a state-owned company, who rented 85 hectares of sandy land that he thought was suitable for forest near Xinhe Village; Sabriye Tenberken, a blind teacher who has spent 13 years in Tibet teaching blind children how to work and live; Zhou Gonghu who collects floating garbage on the Yangtze River in Zigui county, Hubei province; Cao Bengang, 56, who says he likes to call himself "a happy bachelor", Xie Liang, 82-year-old, who has been a voluntary guide at a bus station in Beijing for a decade. At the end of 2011, let's review these moving stories.

Environment protection Collector has the run of the hill   Low carbon mission helps build bridges   Keeping the Yangtze clean   Granny cleans up Beijing's window   One man's fight against desertification   Tribute to a grassroots leader   75-year-old volunteer helps keep Tian'anmen neat   A sharp nose for bad air

Care for the disabled Teachers help open up the world of sound   Writer persists from his wheelchair   Man creates Cinema Paradiso for the blind   Disabled children get motherly love   Mother and son share a desk at school   With vision for the blind   With editor, disabled rewrite future   Girl supports impoverished family   Rural education promotion The guard of a rural teacher   German teacher lights the way   The most beautiful teaching legacy   School is where the home is   Rural teachers get support from local woman   A rural teacher who shoulders more   Small donations make a meal for poor rural children   Painting to a colorful future   Other moving stories An old helping hand   Rescuer didn't save a life for fame   An orphan among orphans   A starring role   Taoist priest raises abandoned baby boy   Movie projectionist works for over 30 years in China's Hubei rural areas   A mother of 80 orphans   Curing sick villagers for 30 years