Sound of Tan Dun: How a Hunan Villager Grew into Academy and Grammy Award Winner

Liu Lingli: Helping Hearing-impaired Children "Hear" the World

Liu Lingli, a teacher at the Hengyang Special Education School in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, was on the list, commended for sticking to her post and devoting herself to enlightening special children with love for more than 30 years.

Yan Wenming

Chinese archaeologist Yan Wenming, born in Hunan Province, was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award during the fifth Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF), which marks the first time a Chinese scholar has received such recognition.

Jin Yuelin

Jin Yuelin (1895–1984), born in Changsha, was a leading Chinese philosopher and logician. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University in the United States, he returned to China and established the Department of Philos...

Xiang Jingyu

Xiang Jingyu (1895-1928) was a pioneer of the women's liberation movement, who founded China's national women's organization.

Tang Hongbo

Tang, born in 1975 and launched into orbit on the Shenzhen-12 mission in June 2021, became one of the first occupants of the Chinese space station's core module Tianhe.

Ho Fengshan

Ho Fengshan was a Chinese diplomat in Vienna who risked his own life and career during World War II to save more than one thousand Jews.

Xiang Yanmei

Xiang Yanmei, a weightlifter born in Xiangxi, Hunan, won the women's 69kg weightlifting gold in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.