Hong Zhanhui is from Xihua County, Henan Province. A grade 03 student at Hunan Huaihua University and a college student at Central South University. Because he studied hard for 12 years with his adopted sister, in 2005, he was named one of the top ten people who moved China and became an idol of the times. In 2010, he served as deputy secretary of the party committee in Huaminglou Town, Ningxiang, Hunan. This college student who took up a job as a "village official" before graduating has once again become the focus of attention.
In 1994, Hong Zhanhui's father suddenly suffered from intermittent mental illness, causing his wife to be injured and fractured, his daughter to die unexpectedly, and the family owed huge debts. Later, the father picked up a baby girl who was about the same age as his daughter. Faced with a heavy family burden, my mother ran away from home. Hong Zhanhui, who was only 13 years old, quietly shouldered the family burden of serving his sick father, taking care of his younger brother, and raising his adopted sister. This heavy burden is not easy for an adult, let alone a child over ten years old! But Hong Zhanhui did not back down and continued to challenge him for 12 years. In order to earn money to support his family, he did small business, did odd jobs, scavenged, and farmed like adults. He used his spare time to sell pens, books, tapes, shoes and socks, work as a handyman in a restaurant near the school, and rush home on weekends to water 8 acres of wheat fields. He sacrificed almost all his rest time while balancing studies and making a living. In order to take care of the sister he picked up, Hong Zhanhui worked hard. Every night, he let his sister sleep inside to prevent his father from getting sick suddenly and hurting his sister. My sister often wets the sheets and quilt, so he sleeps in the wet area and uses his body temperature to dry the wet areas. From high school to college, he kept his sister by his side, ensuring that she had a bottle of milk and an egg every day, but he often ate instant noodles. When he was in college in Huaihua, he arranged for his sister to go to elementary school. No matter how busy he was studying, he insisted on picking up and dropping off his sister and tutoring her in her homework every day. In order to cure his father's disease, Hong Zhanhui suffered a lot. In October 2002, his father suddenly fell ill. Because he had no money, he had to kneel in front of a psychiatric hospital and beg for treatment. Infected by his filial piety, Henan Second Rongkang Hospital took the initiative to take his father for treatment at the end of 2005. Now, my father's condition has improved significantly, my mother who ran away and my brother who is working have returned home one after another, and the family is finally reunited.