Hu Lei has been doing charity for 16 years. He has helped more than 500 poor students by selling waste products, selling small handicrafts and the relief funds given to him by kind-hearted people.

He was once named and praised by the People's Daily, and netizens called for him to be named a person who "moved China" Hu Lei goes out after lunch every day, crawls 5 kilometers to pick up waste, and returns home around 6 p.m. According to him, the annual living expenses will not exceed 10,000 yuan.