01、Guimei Zhang 张桂梅

Zhang Guimei is a teacher working in a destitute ethnic minority region. Regardless of the difficulties and sorrow of losing her husband and being ill herself, she has brought up and educated 54 orphans. Her students have not quit school and neither have they suffered from poverty.

张桂梅是一位在少数民族贫困地区工作的教师。她在失去丈夫的悲伤中、自己患病的困境里，为54名孤儿提供了养育和教育。在她的帮助下，她的学生没有人退学，也没有遭受贫困之苦。

Zhang Guimei, born 1957 in Mudanjiang City, Helongjiang Province, works in Minzhu Middle School, Hua Ping County, Yunnan Province, in a multi-ethnic mountainous area.

张桂梅，1957年出生于黑龙江省牡丹江市，在地处多民族山区的云南省华坪县民族中学工作。

In her 29 years of work, she has been awarded numerous honors; the one she cherishes most is the common title: a people's teacher. Zhang herself had a tumor, which needed two operations within the year.

在她29年的工作生涯中，她获得了许多荣誉;她最珍视的是一个普通的头衔：人民教师。张桂梅患有肿瘤，一年内需要做两次手术。

Despite illness and pain, Zhang continued her work for the welfare of children. She has donated most of the money she earns or gets for medical treatment to poor children, orphans and schools in a rehabilitation village; as a result her savings are less than 3000 yuan.

尽管病痛缠身，她继续为孩子们的幸福努力工作。她把自己挣来或收到的大部分医疗费都捐给了一个康复村学校里的贫困儿童、孤儿和学校，结果她的个人积蓄只有不到3000元。

As a teacher, Zhang loves the children like they were her own. She says, "Love is the key for heart-to-heart communication between teachers and students." Since all her students come from cultural minority groups and their level is lower than average, she has to work harder for longer hours to design teaching methods that can arouse their motivation to learn. Her efforts are well rewarded with their good results in public examinations.

作为一名教师，张桂梅像爱自己的孩子一样爱着她的学生。她说：“爱是师生心灵交流的关键。”由于她的学生都来自少数民族文化区，他们的受教育水平低于平均水平，她不得不花更多时间研究激励学生的教学方法。她的努力得到了很好的回报，学生们在高考中取得了优异成绩。

Now Zhang faces a third operation for her tumor, and pain tortures her every day. But she chooses to work harder. She says, “My life is in my teaching.”

现在，张桂梅即将进行第三次肿瘤手术，病痛折磨着她的每一天。但她选择更加努力地工作。她说：“‘女高’意味着我的生命。”

"The children gave me the honor of being a teacher, the consolation of being a mother, and the happiness of being a woman. My life is in my teaching."

“孩子们给了我当老师的荣誉，做母亲的安慰，做女人的幸福。教育让我的生命有意义。”

02、Tu Youyou 屠呦呦

Tu Youyou was born in 1930 in the city of Ningbo on the east coast of China. Her family stressed education for her and her four brothers, but she had to take a two-year break from studying at 16 because she had contracted tuberculosis.

屠呦呦1930年出生在中国东海岸的宁波市。家中十分重视对她和她的四个兄弟的教育，但她在16岁时因感染了肺结核不得不休学两年。

When she returned to school, she knew exactly what she wanted to study: medicine. She wanted to find cures for diseases like the one that had afflicted her.

回到学校后，她很清楚自己想学什么：医学。她想找到治疗曾经折磨过她的疾病的方法。

In 1969, when she was 39 years old, Tu was appointed head of Project 523. Her first order of business was researching the effects of malaria in situ. And for that, she traveled to Hainan Island in southern China, which was currently experiencing a malaria outbreak of its own.In those rainforests, Tu witnessed first-hand the disease’s devastating toll on the human body.

1969年，39岁的屠呦呦被任命为523项目负责人。她的第一项任务是到实地研究疟疾的影响。为此，她去了中国南部海南岛，那里正爆发疟疾。在雨林中，屠呦呦亲眼目睹了疾病对人体造成的毁灭性伤害。

She had to leave her one-year-old daughter with her parents and put her four-year-old in a nursery. "The work was the top priority so I was certainly willing to sacrifice my personal life," Tu later said. It would be three years before she saw her children again.

她不得不把一岁的女儿交给父母，把四岁的女儿送进托儿所。屠呦呦后来说：“工作是重中之重，所以我当然愿意牺牲自己的私生活。她要过三年才能再见到她的孩子们。

Upon their return to Beijing, the team reviewed ancient medical texts to understand traditional Chinese ways of fighting malaria.Finally, the team found a reference to sweet wormwood, which had been used in China around 400 AD to treat “intermittent fevers,” a symptom of malaria.