Sun Jiadong is an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the International Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia (IASEA) and a recipient of China’s Two Bombs and One Satellite Meritorious Award and the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (China’s highest honor in science and technology). As one of the space technology founders and a legendary figure in China’s history of space exploration, Sun has witnessed how the aerospace industry of China developed from nothing to become one of the world’s best. Now in his 90s, he is still working tirelessly in the frontlines of aerospace engineering and talent cultivation.

This book recounts the life experience of Mu Mengjie, a blind man who ventured out into the world at the age of 13 to make a living through performing storytelling on the streets. Later in life, he returned home and established a special education school for the visually impaired. The school welcomed anyone who had a visual impairment, never charging them a penny. Mengjie never had even one day of formal schooling. With a pure kind heart, Mengjie is just one ordinary peasant in China who continues to bring joy and hope to many people with visual impairments as well as their families.

At the age of 10, Jin Xing’an lost his parents. Through unremitting efforts, Jin has many achievements to his credit and is an influential writer. His own experience laid the foundation for his compassion. To repay society, Jin enthusiastically donated all the books he collected and his savings, and through hard work, set up the Farmers’ Book House in his hometown where books are rare. Jiangji Farmers’ Book House has become an invaluable knowledge bank and a veritable “paradise on Earth” in the area, marking a milestone in the rural construction of the new era.

Erping Village in Southwestern China’s Sichuan Province is located on top of a precipitous mountain in a grand canyon, with only dangerous paths leading to the outside world. A teacher couple left their hometown to teach in this small Yi minority-inhabited village. Over the past two decades, they have worked and lived here, sowing seeds of knowledge in a place which was once dominated by illiteracy. Though poorly paid, they were never wavered by difficulty and poverty, but persisted and worked hard, bringing education and hope to children in the remote mountainous region. With vivid description and a touching tone, this book tells an inspiring story of two passionate educators, representing a modern Chinese version of “Prometheus”.

In Justin Yifu Lin’s legendary life, there have been several important turning points, each of which has not only changed the course of his life dramatically, but also enriched his knowledge and broadened his minds and professional horizons. Lin dropped out of university to study at a military college in Taiwan 40 years before. Just as everything in his life seemed to be as perfect as it could be, he took a huge risk swimming across the Taiwan Strait to the mainland. Afterwards he studied at Peking University, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. After coming back to China as an overseas returnee, he spent decades with a swimming athlete’s tenacity working on the Three Rural Issues and promoting the New Countryside Movement in China. In 2008, at the age of 56, Lin became Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and continued to put into practice his dream of “serving the wellbeing of people all over the world”.

What kind of business is "Sunshine Sisters"? What has enabled it to obtain special attention from national leaders? How was "Sunshine Sisters" founded? What different types of customer and problems have they encountered while providing a housekeeping service? How are the sisters enthusiastically engaged in work, and how do they overcome a variety of problems with calmness and optimism?

Yuan Longping, the world-renowned “Father of Hybrid Rice,” is an outstanding agronomist from China and winner of multiple awards including the National Science and Technology Award, the WIPO Gold Medal for Inventors, the UNESCO Science Prize, and the World Food Prize. He has been devoted to hybrid rice research since his early 20s and has established a technological roadmap for super hybrid rice breeding. His accomplishments have contributed to China’s food self-sufficiency and the world’s food security.