On this day, 29 years ago, on December 10, 1996 (October 30, 1996, the first International Youth Poverty Eradication Award was announced. On December 10, 1996, the first selection activity of the "International Youth Poverty Eradication Award" jointly founded by the United Nations Development Program and China Youth Development Foundation was announced in Beijing. Five China teenagers, including Guo Qibao, Chen Fengxia (female), Li Yong, Ren Guoli, and Song Fangrong (female, Tujia), won this honor, and 18 teenagers won the nomination award. The five winners were selected by a jury composed of officials from the United Nations Development Program, China Youth Development Foundation, journalists and relevant social parties among 23 candidates recommended nationwide. Their deeds are as follows: Guo Qibao, a 24-year-old young farmer in Lishi City, Shanxi Province, was determined to cultivate forests and control the land and change the appearance of his hometown. In four years, he planted 5100 acres of pine and cypress, cultivated 2100 acres of economic forests, and reclaimed more than 450 acres of vegetable fields, changing the appearance of the former 12,000 acres of barren mountains. Chen Fengxia, a 25-year-old female college student from South China Normal University in Guangdong Province, is enthusiastic about public welfare. Three years ago, she gave up her affluent life in a hometown of overseas Chinese and volunteered to work as a rural teacher in Baiwan Town, Qingyuan County, a remote mountainous area. She also actively mobilized social forces to care for and help children in poverty-stricken areas, significantly improving the basic education of Baiwan Town. Li Yong, a 17-year-old student at Qingyang Normal School in Gansu Province, died prematurely due to family poverty. He used his spare time and holidays to work to earn money and continued his studies while taking care of his paralyzed father. He was named the "Three Good Students" many times. In 1995, he won the first prize in the Gansu Division of the National Junior High School Chemistry Competition. Ren Guoli, a 16-year-old middle school student at Yiyuan No. 1 Middle School in Shandong Province, has a poor family. He received funding from the "Hope Project Special Scholarship" and worked hard to become a talent. In 1996, he won the Shandong Special Prize in the 13th Olympic Physics Competition and the Second Prize in the National Olympic Physics Competition. He has now been admitted to the Physics Department of Peking University without exam. Song Fangrong, a 24-year-old substitute female teacher in Wufeng County, Hubei Province, has devoted herself to education in mountainous areas since the age of 15. She runs a school for each person. She works as both a teacher and a nurse in a boarding school. Most of her salary is paid for books for students. The students she teaches have ranked among the top three among 12 schools in the township for six consecutive years. The judges believe that these five winners fully reflect the spirit of China's youth who strive for self-improvement and enterprising.