[Explanation] Mai Qiongfang, who is over 60 years old, is a retired employee of Baise People's Hospital in Guangxi. She started doing charity work at the age of 19.

For more than 40 years, Mai Qiongfang has carried the raised rice, oil, clothes and other materials to the countryside on a shoulder pole, and has raised and helped 125 orphans and poor children.

She is honored as "Sister Biandan" by everyone, and is also affectionately called "Mother Mai" by the children.

　　[Explanation] Huang Wei, Huang Xiang and other brothers and sisters are all children sponsored by Mai Qiongfang.

In 2022, Huang Wei scored 599 points in the college entrance examination and was admitted to Northeastern University.

Huang Xiang is in elementary school in Nanning, and the other two younger sisters are studying at Mai Qiongfang's house in Baise.

　　Recently, in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency, Huang Wei introduced that although there is no blood relationship, Mae Qiongfang will also call him his son, and he feels very warm when getting along with her.

　　[Concurrent] Huang Wei

　　It's very good, even though there is no blood relationship as we often say at the beginning, but she will be treated as a very close person, just like treating your own children, and then she often also Call me son, I just call her Mama Mai or something like that, I feel very warm.

　　[Explanation] Among the children sponsored by Mai Qiongfang over the years, there are not a few of them who have been admitted to famous domestic universities like Huang Wei. Among them, more than 20 people have been admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, and more than 40 people are studying and working overseas.

　　[Explanation] Talking about difficult times, Mai Qiongfang said that once 8 children received admission notices at the same time, she and her husband were worried about their children's tuition fees.

Today, children can apply for student loans immediately after being admitted, and they no longer have to worry about tuition fees.

　　[Concurrent] Mai Qiongfang

　　Because you have to raise his tuition and food expenses, which is a huge amount, just like in 2000 when 8 children in our family took the college entrance examination, my husband and I cried for 3 days holding 8 admission notices. Where to go to ask for money, but you can't cry in front of the child (face), and you can't give him a second trauma.

　　[Explanation] When sharing his experience in educating children with reporters, Mai Qiongfang said that his education level is not high, and he cannot teach children knowledge, but can only teach them to be human.

　　[Concurrent] Mai Qiongfang

　　Regardless of whether you are successful in reading or not, first of all, as an adult, if you don’t learn how to be a human being, it’s useless to go out and go out even if you read anywhere. Not to mention that you give back to the society, you just repay yourself. You don’t know how to repay, and you don’t know how to cherish yourself. If you don't know how to cherish this knowledge and how this fate came about, it's useless.

　　[Explanation] Under the education of Mai Qiongfang, the children are very sensible, and they will help grow vegetables, feed ducks, and do housework in their spare time.

In terms of learning, the children spontaneously formed a mentoring model, the senior grades tutored the lower grades, and the students who learned well helped those with a poor foundation.

She often warns children to remember that their roots are in their hometown, and they should always miss the people and things in their hometown.

　　[Concurrent] Mai Qiongfang

　　The roots are in his house, not mine. I often tell the children, you need to know how to find your roots. I am just a tenant of passers-by. I will give you food and books to change your destiny. It’s just a place, I don’t want to raise and raise children, I want to raise more and more, why many people don’t understand this sentence, I just mean, it seems to be given to the people in the village now, and they will always remember them There is still a child in the village wandering outside, so this child will always remember that his roots are not in Mama Mai, but in Dayao Mountain or Dayong, where his roots are, and he can also go back to sacrifice during the Spring Festival. Ancestor, sweep the graves of parents, so that he will know how to be grateful. It turns out that my roots are here. I want to come back to find my roots, and let the children behind me know that I have a brother and sister who are so good at reading. So good, then we have to work hard to fly out of this mountain.

　　[Explanation] Mai Qiongfang said that his helpful character was influenced by his grandmother, grandfather and mother.

Today, in Beijing, Tianjin, and Shenzhen, Guangdong, every holiday, Mama Mai’s children in the same area will spontaneously form a team to regularly visit the widowed elderly, help them buy what they need, cut their nails and wash their hair , do laundry, or chat with them.

Mai Qiongfang told the reporter that seeing children help those in need just like herself is the happiest thing for her.

　　Chen Yanyou, Yang Chen, Zhang Wenqian reported from Nanning, Guangxi

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]