Four years ago, Ma Yongbiao was appointed principal of Mayin Primary School in Dongxiang county in Mayin village, Northwest China's Gansu province, after the previous principal died in an accident.Upon arrival, Ma didn't even realize it was a school at all."This could not be the place where I wanted to work," he recalled. "There was no school name. The campus was not clean."There were only three classrooms and a small playground. It was February and in the depths of a cold winter, everything looked even more desolate.The first thing Ma did with help from his colleagues was to fix the school ceilings, which were all broken. He painted doors and the frames of windows, drew some murals on the walls and repaired leaky classrooms and dorms. A simple gate for the school was made, with the school name on it.Soon, Ma found obtaining clean drinking water was a major challenge.In the past,
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