8. Burumahan Maoleduo

A border guard of the Jigen township in Wuqia county, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, 77-year-old Burumahan Maoleduo has spent more than 50 years patrolling the border. She walks at least 20 kilometers every day to patrol the borderline at an average altitude of over 4,000 meters. Besides patrolling duty, Burumahan is also committed to hand-making boundary markers with stones. To date, she has engraved the characters for China on over 100,000 stones at the borderline. On Sept 29 this year, Wang was awarded the national honorary title of People's Role Model at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

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