A Tibetan postwoman walking over 200,000 kilometers in ten years to send mails for mountain villagers, a Beijing Olympic champion and a rocket engineer have been selected as Chinese youth's role models in 2008, it was announced on Sunday.

Top ten outsanding youths(L-R): Tan Jing,  Liu Chunhong, Song Zhengyu, Hu Guo, Wang Hongjun; Zhao Haiqing, Zhang Quanling, Nyima Lamo, Xiang Nanlin, Jin Jing. [China.org.cn]

Others honored as the top ten Outstanding Chinese Youth of the Year included two journalists, a worker at a joint venture auto company and a soldier soprano, the All-China Youth Federation, organizer of the annual activity, said in a brief statement.

Although the federation published little information of the ten winners on Sunday, their inspiring stories had been intensively reported through the media.

All of their stories are about selfless devotion to career, remarkable contribution to the well-being of fellow countrypeople, and great inspiration.