Ma Xuehua (L), a grassroots teacher from the Bonan ethnic minority group and also an NPC deputy, joins the discussion held by the Gansu delegation to the first session of the 12th NPC in March 2013. Ma has been a teacher for 14 years in Jishishan Bonan of Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, Gansu Province. "I feel greatly honored to be remembered by many of my former students who have entered university," She said. [Photo: Mi Xingang]