Tan Lihe, a reporter from Hunan Today Women's Daily, was born in the countryside of Chaling County, Hunan Province, and suffered from polio at the age of two and had a disability in his right leg. In 2005, Tan Lihe graduated from university. Someone asked him on crutches, "What is your ideal?" "Become a journalist." Tan Lihe answered firmly. During his college years, he has published more than 300,000 words of news work.
On the balcony of Tan Li and his home, there are 29 broken crutches. Tan Lihe spends more than 200 days a year at the grassroots level. "Xiangda 22-year-old boy with more than a thousand classmates to break through poverty", ""Heavenly Hanging Household" on Dongting Lake", "Xiangda Associate Professor and her small vendor husband", "Why did Yueyang County No. 1 Middle School sue the students who "jumped off the building to get innocent"" ... Vulnerable groups are the protagonists of his pen. Behind the care and justice, he has made efforts that ordinary people cannot imagine.
On the eve of New Year's Day in 2012, Tan Lihe went to Dongting Lake to interview a special group of fishermen. For historical reasons, these fishermen have not had a hukou for generations and are known as "heavenly hanging households". Fishermen's boats are trapped in the silt of Dongting Lake and cannot be reached on foot, by car, or by boat. Tan Lihe found a plough machine to open the way, dragged a small wooden boat through the mud, and struggled to reach the fishing boat. Tan Lihe lived with the fishermen on the boat for three days and two nights.
"When someone questions my identity as a journalist, I want to say that Roosevelt in a wheelchair can be president of the United States, I just have one more crutch than others, why can't I be a journalist?" Many people say that you can't run the news as well as others. But I would like to say that good news is not only run out, but also written with heart. Tan Lihe said firmly.