[Explanation] Six years ago, Zhang Qingmei, a female teacher at Yangping Middle School in Yangping Town, Yuan’an County, Hubei Province, unfortunately suffered from cancer. She has been reluctant to leave the podium for the sake of her students and to stick to her passion for education.

On December 10, Zhang Qingmei stated in an interview that as a teacher, she would insist on standing on the stage regardless of whether she was ill or not.

  [Explanation] In June 2013, Zhang Qingmei, who lives in Dangyang City, graduated from undergraduate, and was assigned to Yangping Middle School to engage in language teaching after enrollment.

In early 2016, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer during the physical examination.

Zhang Qingmei said that she was scared when she was first diagnosed, but she still actively cooperated with the treatment and tried her best to stabilize her condition within a controllable range.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Qingmei, teacher of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  After the result of the (physical examination) that day, I was completely dumbfounded. During the time I was in the hospital, (family) gave me something with positive energy, which gave me a strong fulcrum in my heart. .

  [Explanation] Only one month after the operation, Zhang Qingmei ignored the dissuasion of colleagues and relatives and friends, insisted on leaving the hospital before the beginning of school, and stood back on the stage.

Beginning in 2016, Zhang Qingmei has to go to the hospital for follow-up visits every month and insist on taking medication every day.

  [Explanation] Now, Zhang Qingmei gives a class on behalf of the Chinese class, also serves as the head of the grade group, and additionally undertakes some administrative tasks in the school.

Chen Kejin, the principal of Yangping Middle School, said that Zhang Qingmei never shouted bitterness and tiredness, but everyone could still see that she was sometimes strenuous at work, but she always refused the school's arrangements to reduce her workload.

  [Concurrent] Xiang Xiaoyue, a student from Class 703 of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  Teacher Zhang is very humorous in class, always telling us something that we are very interested in, so that we feel that every class has passed quickly and is very happy.

  Chen Kejin, Principal of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  Sometimes I also ask her how she is doing now. If it doesn’t work, put the work on her hands first. It’s important to her body. She says that’s not work. If I ask for leave, there will be no one to take the student. I still insist on it.

  [Explanation] Chen Kejin told reporters that in recent years, the school teachers have come and gone, but the young Zhang Qingmei has always been here to accompany the growth of the children from year to year.

In the second half of 2018, Zhang Qingmei also voluntarily gave up the opportunity to work in a county-level unit and insisted on teaching and educating people in Yangping Middle School.

  [Concurrent] Chen Kejin, Principal of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  It is often difficult for young people to stay in middle schools in our mountainous townships, but after Teacher Zhang arrived at this school, she has been working here. She had the opportunity to leave halfway, but she resolutely stayed.

  [Explanation] The reporter learned that because most of the students in Yangping Middle School go out to work because of their parents, many of them are left-behind children, and there are a few children whose families are more difficult and they need more care.

Since teaching here, these children have become an inseparable concern for Zhang Qingmei. From then on, they "cannot get out" and are unwilling to get out of here.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Qingmei, teacher of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  (School) There are a lot of left-behind children. In fact, they are more or less lack of self-confidence, or even a little inferior. This has a great impact on their study and life. I found this problem. From now on, I have been doing work to give them a psychological fulcrum.

  [Explanation] Since teaching, Zhang Qingmei has received many awards from Yichang City and Yuan'an County for his outstanding teaching performance. My colleagues also appreciated Zhang Qingmei's professionalism.

Zhang Qingmei's mentality is getting better and better, and between her words and demeanor, there is a chic and capable, and a smile is always on her face.

  [Concurrent] Mou Juan, teacher of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  Although she was born with this disease, but for her, her personality is very cheerful and lively, and she has no psychological burden. This (mentality) is also worthy of our study.

  [Concurrent] Zhang Qingmei, teacher of Yangping Middle School, Yangping Town, Yuan'an County, Hubei Province

  When I was ill, colleagues, relatives and friends gave me a pivot of psychological support, so I wanted to pass this pivot to the students and pass it on.

  Dong Xiaobin, Li Xiaolong, Zhao Jing, Hubei Yuanan reports

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]