Mou Tianming, a village doctor who has been physically disabled since contracting a disease in his childhood, has been on call for 40 straight years in a village in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Many of the villagers who have received his care call him a "guardian angel.”

Mou became disabled when he was in elementary school, and didn’t receive good treatment due limited medical technology available at that time. Still, refusing to give up, he began teaching himself medical knowledge when he was still in junior high school. After graduating from high school in 1977, he started serving as a doctor in a village in Xiji County. He has remained at that post for four decades.

Though it is not easy for him to walk, Mou never fails to help villagers in need. Rain or shine, he visits patients’ houses on foot, helping them with their problems.