Ye Ruyi was born in an ordinary worker's family at Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. He lost his left leg in a car accident at the age of five. However, this did not dampen his aspirations for a better life.
Wang Shurong is a senior teacher at the Mongolian Central Primary School of Chagan Lake Town, Qianguo County, Jilin Province. She studied Chinese Language at the Open University of China (OUC) from the spring of 2016 until July 2018. She has been teaching at the school since November 1984.
Li Bei, of the Yao nationality, majored in Law in the class of 2007.
Li Bei has been a Communist Party member for 12 years, and is political commissar and Party branch secretary of the Public Security Detachment of the Loudi Public Security Bureau in Hunan province. She has been named “National Outstanding Communist Party Member” and “National Top-level Policewoman”, among other titles, and given a level-two public-security award.
Yang Qiu, a member of the Communist Party of China, joined the army in 2005, completed the Administrative Management undergraduate programme at the Jingzhou branch of Hubei Radio & TV University in 2014, and now serves with the Hubei Jingzhou fire brigade. In his 13 years of service, comrade Yang has never forgotten his original mission, and focuses on always enhancing his studies and service;
In 1987, Zhang Ying, general manager of Luohe Sunshine Poultry Co., Ltd., enrolled in Luohe Radio and TV University (RTVU) junior college’s Enterprise Management programme . By the time she graduated in 1990, she had served as president of the university’s student union.
Yang Jianjia, a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was enrolled at the Sanhe Branch of Langfang Radio and TV University (Langfang RTVU) from March 2014 to July 2016. He is currently the leader of the driver class of the Eighth Avenue Squadron of the Development Branch of the armed police force with a rank of grade 4 chief sergeant. He has been awarded a first-class merit once, third-class merits twice, personal awards twice, and been named an “outstanding soldier” twice.
Huang Fengjie started studying at the Haizhu Campus of Guangzhou Radio and TV University (Guangzhou RTVU) in September 2014. He was a junior college student majoring in mechanical manufacturing and automation (numerical control technology) and graduated in July 2017. He currently works as a tutor at Guangzhou Technician College.
Xie Wei currently works as a political commissar in the Songbei Team of Harbin Public Security Traffic Police Detachment. He started in the administrative management major at China Central Radio & TV University in September 2011 and graduated in January 2014.
Wang Heng enrolled in a programme for Party and political cadres at Liuzhou Radio and TV University in September 1984, and graduated in July 1986.
Shi Yonghong, who joined the army in December 1999, is a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and has a junior-college degree.
Ren Xiaoyun, a Han national, graduated from the Chongwen branch of Beijing Open University with a degree in Administrative Management as a junior-college student in 2011, rated an outstanding graduate of Beijing Open University and the Open University of China.