Zhou Huosheng, a 73-year-old retired teacher, sells books with a tricycle in Qiandeng town, Kunshan city, east China's Jiangsu Province, in this photo taken on September 7, 2006. Zhou Huosheng has been using his savings and income raised by selling books to help the dropouts in the mountainous area since 1994. [Xinhua]

Qi Tiansuo (L), teaches 7 students of preschool classes in Anzi village, Tuanjie town, Shunping County, north China's Hebei Province, March, 1996. In total 1,830 children in Shunping County have regained their opportunities to go to school in 6 years since the Hope Project started in 1989. [Xinhua]