Gun Yuanli poses with his mother for a picture at Basha Village in Congjiang County, Southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Aug. 31, 2016. His mother fell from a tree on June 1, when she was picking Myrica rubra, yangmei in Chinese, which she sold to earn money to buy good food for her son, who was preparing for the college entrance exams at the time. It cost the family 50,000 yuan to treat the mother’s injury. Gun, 19, has become the first student from the village, where people lead a life virtually untouched by modernization, to be admitted to a key national university, Minzu University of China in Beijing. (Photo: China News Service/Liang Guangyuan)
