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Life Of Paralysed Girl. 28-year-old girl Zhang Haidi, a paralytic, has now become a heroine in the hearts of millions upon millions of young people throughout China because of her deeds in creating a valuable life. Zhang Haidi works in the Xinxian County Broadcasting Centre in Shandong Province. She suffered from spinal hemangiomas when she was only five and the lower half of her body was paralysed. However, She loves life, and is full of confidence in life. Over the past two decades, Zhang Haidi has fought diseases and death with amazing willpower. She tought herself all the courses of primary and middle schools and the English teaching materials of university. Moreover, she studied Japanese, German and Esperanto and has translated into Chinese 160,000 words of foreign writings and data. She also assiduously studied medicine and has given over 10,000 medical treatments to patients over the past ten years and more. Indeed Zhang is a paralytic, but she is dauntless. She has done what a healthy man cannot do. And she has told people with her deeds that the value of life lies in the creating of a valuable life.

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