'Shrimp girl' captures hearts of Chinese

His original aspiration is: "If a child has not received sunshine, how can he/she illuminate others. If he/she has not received love, he/she has not experienced more tenderness, what can he/she do to love society and others?"

The principal's father was once a substitute teacher of the school. "He wanted me to learn more knowledge, and leave the rural area." In the beginning, Zhang chose to work outside after graduation from a normal school.

But when he found what happened to left-behind children through his own son, he determined to return to school. "As a left-behind child in the past, my first son's scores were bad, and many other left-behind children were like him."

He wanted the left-behind children to have good education even in villages. After decade-long effort, the school expanded from less than 30 children in the past to more than 180 children.

In the school with 10 faculty members, Zhang Pengcheng even worked as a purchaser, installer, electrician and cook, and he also acted as a part-time teacher of Chinese and English, though he's not an English major.

What made Zhang Pengcheng helpless was that children did not have special sports, music and art courses. He expected to have arts and sports teachers in his school.