Liao Lichun, male, born in 1965, a volunteer devoted to planting trees in China's deserts. Liao resigned from his post as company president in 2004 and began to travel across China to help out with poverty alleviation and education projects. In 2010, Liao founded a volunteer organization to make deserts green again, and starting in 2011, he became a full-time volunteer in the deserts of Inner Mongolia and Hebei. So far, he and his team members have planted more than one million trees in the Otindag Sandy Land in central Inner Mongolia, which is the nearest desert to Beijing, and one of the major sources of sandstorms affecting Beijing and Tianjin. By the end of 2014, Liao had invested more than 10 million yuan in making deserts green. [Photo from bjby.bjwmb.gov.cn]

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