At the first session of the 12th Yunnan People’s Congress Yunnan RTVU student Tie Feiyan was elected by unanimous vote to become Yunnan Province’s youngest NPC deputy.

Tie Feiyan is a CPC member from Zhaotong City of Yunnan Province. She enrolled at Yunnan RTVU in 2010 and majored in law in the School of Open Education. She was honored as a “Pace-Setter for Women” and one of the most moving figures on the Chinese Internet in 2010. Chinese internet users hailed her as “The Most Beautiful Girl Born After 1990”, “The Pride of China” and a “Model for the Post-90s Generation” as she rescued people from drowning and adopted abandoned infants despite her meager salary. She was also nominated for “College Student of the Year” in 2010 and won the “National Moral Model” award.

Liu Yandong, CPC Central Committee Politburo member and State Councilor with Tie Feiyan (right)
 
Tie Feiyan

Tie Feiyan was born in August 1992, the daughter of an ordinary farming family from Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. She now works at the Pu’erdu tollgate in Zhaotong. On May 4, 2010, she travelled to Sichuan with her father and visited Mianyang Nanshan Bridge. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew down some scaffolding and four workers fell into the water. Tie Feiyan immediately jumped into the river and rescued the four workers, which made her very famous in Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces. She donated more than half of her reward money to her former school. At the age of 17, she found an abandoned baby and decided to shoulder the responsibility as a mother.

Knowing her desire to learn, Yunnan RTVU decided to admit Tie Feiyan in September 2010. She majored in law in the School of Open Education, tuition-free. As an official employee of Yunnan Highway & Investment Co. Ltd, she was released from her regular work to study with full pay. She also receives a subsidy of 1000 RMB per month from the Zhaotong Municipal Government. While at Yunnan RTVU, she was elected party branch secretary and president of the Student Union for her school thanks to arduous work and friendly attitude.

By Yunnan RTVU