The annual list of the People Who Moved China in 2023 was published during an award ceremony on China Central Television (CCTV) on April 8.

Liu Lingli, a teacher at the Hengyang Special Education School in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, was on the list, commended for sticking to her post and devoting herself to enlightening special children with love for more than 30 years.

Liu Lingli is honored as one of the "People Who Moved China in 2023".

Graduating from a normal college in Nanjing with a degree in special education in 1991, Liu was recruited by the special education school in Hengyang. She has taught language and aural-speech rehabilitation as a class teacher and also a group leader in language teaching and research.

Over the past 33 years, Liu has touched the hearts of special children with her sincerity and love. She has been continuously exploring and practicing, helping these kids "hear" the world. With her help, more than 30 hearing-impaired students in Liu's class can speak, among whom 15 have been transferred into mainstream schools. She has financially supported four poor hearing-impaired students so that they could finish their schooling. On weekends, she also visited children who couldn't go to school because of severe disabilities.

Among Liu's students, some have been enrolled by institutions of higher education, some have become designers and teachers, and some worked as bakers and gardeners after receiving vocational education.  

"With proper training, the students are able to work and live a normal life," Liu said. She is always affectionately known as "Mother Liu" by her students.

Liu often demonstrates the pronunciation of a single letter for more than 100 times.

Liu has been awarded with more than 30 honors, including "Good Teacher of the CPC and the People of China", "National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter", "National Model of Learning from Lei Feng", National Special Education Teacher Award, and "Outstanding Member of the CPC". In 2023, she was selected as a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress.

Liu helps a girl with her hair. 

"Being honored as one of the 'People Who Moved China' is a source of encouragement and motivation from our country and the people," Liu said. She vowed to remain dedicated to her role in special education, working even harder, and illuminating the way forward and warming the hearts of these special children.

  Huang Kecheng, a native of Yongxing, Hunan, was named Shixuan according to his seniority in his family. He was admitted to the provincial No.3 Normal School in Hengyang, and joined the academic movement launched by the No.3 Normal School in March, 1923, during which he got to know about the advanced revolution ideas at that time, and therefore became determined to find a way for our nation, ethic groups and society to save themselves. He became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1925. He participated in the Northern Expedition and the Xiangnan Uprising. In July, 1926, he followed the frontier political publicity department of the Northern Expedition to Hengyang, and took on the post as the administrative office assistant of the political instructor of No.13 regiment, the No.4 Division, the No.8 contingent led by Tang Shengzhi. He also joined the Long March. After the PRC (People's Republic of China) got established, he assumed posts in turn as the secretary of the provincial Party committee in Hunan, commander of Hunan military region, political commissar, deputy chief of the general staff of the PLA and chief of the general logistics department, political commissar, the secretary-general of central military commission, deputy minister of the defense apartment, the eighth secretary of the secretariat of the Central Party Committee, and the chief of the general staff of the PLA. In July, 1959, he was wrongly judged as a member of the anti-Party group headed by Peng Dehuai, Huang Kecheng, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Xiaozhou, and got dismisses from his post later. After that, he also suffered great mistreatment during the Cultural Revolution, but was vindicated to be blameless in 1978. After 1977, he assumed posts of the adviser of the Central Military, the executive secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Second Secretary of the secretariat of the Central Party Committee. And he was entitled as the senior general in 1955. He was also the member of the first and second national defense council, and member of the first standing committee of the National People's Congress and the fifth of the CPPCC (the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference), and member of the seventh, eighth, and eleventh Central Party Committee.

   Jianghua, whose original name and former name respectively are Yu Shangcong and Huang Chunpu was a native of Jianghua, Hunan from the Yao ethic minority. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1926. During the period of the second Chinese Revolutionary Civil War, he held the post as the secretary of the Party committee of district and prefectural levels in Hengyang. And since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jiang has assumed offices of mayor of Hangzhou city, secretary of the Hangzhou municipal Party committee and general secretary of Zhejiang provincial Party committee later. He has also served as member of secretarial of East China Bureau of central Party committee and the political commissar of Nanjing military region, and then the president of the SPC (supreme people's court). In 1980, he took the post as the chief judge of the special tribunal of SPC. He was the alternate member for the 8th and 10th term of the central committee, and the member of the 11th central committee and the standing committee of the advisory commission of the central Party committee.

   Liu Hanmao, a famous model player, was born in Hengyang. He entered the Model Airplane Team of Gongdong Province and was the champion of the Radio Controlled Aerobatics in National Model Airplane Competition successively in 1980, 1981, and 1982. he was also a player of Chinese team in the 4th and 5th Asian Model Airplane Championship Contest in which Chinese team won the group championship. In 1982, Liu broke the world record of closure speed of the radio controlled model airplane flying over water with 151.387 km/h and 185.567 km/h.

    He Zongman, a male with Han Nationality, was born in 1956 in Changning City, Hunan Province, graduated from Tsinghua University getting a Master’s Degree and now is the Associate Senior Editor. He once worked as the associate managing editor of the magazine, The Young, the vice president of Hunan Broadcast TV News, the vice president of Hunan Broadcast and TV Advertisement Company and Changsha Window of the World Company Limited, and the deputy commander of the Headquarter of the Construction Center of Broadcasting and TV Center which was attached to Hunan Broadcast and TV Bureau successively. He is now working as the Chairman of Hunan Literature Association, the Chairman of Hunan Calligrapher’s Association, a member of National Calligrapher’s Association, the Vice Chairman of National Hard-tipped Pen Calligrapher’s Association, the Honored Chairman of Hunan Young Calligrapher’s Association, the Honored Chairman of Hunan Young Hard-tipped Pen Calligrapher’s Association, the Honored Host of the West Hunan Calligraphy and Art Association (also called The Wild Wind of Five Streams), a member of the Standing Committee of Hunan Youngster Association, the representative of 9th Hunan People’s Congress and 11th Changsha People’s Congress.

    He had been to Germany, France, Spanish, Australia and 7 other countries in August and October 1995 and February 1997 to participate in several academic conferences which were about the philosophy of living and study. He could definitely be considered as a thinker with deep thoughts and experts in academic study.

    Two Calligraphy Work written by him, each one with a Chinese Character (one means longevity and the other luck), had been sold at very high price at auctions successively. Still writes diaries with writing brush now, He announced that he would donate all his handwritings to the Hunan Archives.

  Bao Yugang, originally named Bao Qiran, was a native of Hai Zhongbao village, Ningbo county, Zhejiang Province. He was in charge of the insurance department of Central Trust of China, but soon got shifted to the the assistant manager of Hengyang branch of the Industrial Bank of China when he turned 24 years old. And later, he was promoted to the position of the bank manager. Since he arrived in Hongkong in 1949, he has built up a huge transnational shipping empire in merely 20 years, ranking the No.1 among the top 10 shipping enterprises. 

A photo from Hunan Library 

Tang Qunying, the third daughter of Tang Shaohuan, a general of the Qing Dynasty, was born on Dec 8, 1871 in Hengshan County, Hunan. She was the first female member of the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance (also known as "The Tongmenghui", a secret society and underground resistance movement organized by Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren in Tokyo, Japan, on 20 August 1905) and served as a leader in the earlier feminist movement.

As having made great contributions to overthrowing the monarchy and establishing the Republic of China (1912-1949), she was met by Sun Yat-sen, who praised her as "a heroine in the founding of the Republic of China" and granted her a second-class Jiahe (Golden Harvest) Medal. She started the Journal of Association of Chinese Female Students in Japan to advocate revolution, and later established Ten-day Vernacular Newspaper for Women and Yadong Repository and managed the resume publication of Chinese Women Report. In 1913, Tang started Women’s Rights Daily, the first newspaper for women in Hunan and successively set up many girls' schools, which was the first sign to start newspaper and establish schools in Hunan's female community.

In 1991, Kang Keqing, former vice-chairman of the 5th CPPCC National Committee and honorary president of the All-China Women's Federation, credited Tang as "heroine of her times". In 1995, Tang was recommended as one of eight outstanding Chinese women over a century by the Chinese Government to the 4th World Conference on Women. 

Luo Ronghuan was one of the 10 Great Marshals of the PLA. A native of Hengshan, Hunan province.He was born on Nov. 26, 1902. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) and participated in the "Autumn Harvest Uprising" in September 1927 in the rural areas bordering the Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. He held key military positions during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945) and the War of Liberation (1946-1949).

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when his army stationed in Shandong, he called on Party members to play an exemplary role and asked officers to strengthen communication with grass-roots soldiers.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Luo served as the chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the director of the political department of the PLA. He was granted the rank of Great Marshal in 1955. Luo conducted comprehensive surveys on the PLA's education level and wrote instructions on enhancing the overall educational level of the army. His work, later approved by Mao Zedong, has proved to be important in the building of the modern military forces of China.

Luo died on Dec. 16, 1963, at the age of 61.

     Li Jiazhu (1903-1928) joined the CPC in 1923 and worked successively as a commissioner of the Hunan Provincial Agriculture Movement, secretary of the CPC committee of Changning County, and the chief of Provincial Agriculture Association. He died a glorious death after arrested on February 16th 1928.

Dai Jinwu (1902-1927) joined the CPC in 1924, and worked successively as the chief of the publication office of Agriculture Association in Hengyang County, secretary of Shenhuang Mountain CPC committee and secretary of the CPC committee of the guerrilla division in northern Hengyang. He died a glorious death after arrested in December 1927.

   Xiao Shiyue (1900-1927) joined the CPC in 1922, and worked successively as a member of the Hunan Provincial committee of CPC, secretary of the special committee of Xikuang Mountain and a candidate for the supervision committee of the central government. He died a glorious death in a fight in Changsha on May 28th 1927. 

Dong Bin, born on 22 November 1988 in Hengyang, Hunan, is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump.

Dong Bin won a bronze in men's triple jump at Rio Olympic Games on August 16. This is the first medal that Chinese team took in such event in Olympics, and also Hunan’s first Olympic medal in athletics.

Dong jumped 17.58 meters, making a new record in Chinese history of men's triple jump in Olympics.