caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation
bai fang li 2005 tianjin , china bai fang li china 1913 bai fang li.jpg bai fang li
 bai fang li rickshaw driver
bai fang li

the virtuous mr. bai fang li bai fangli -lrb- -rrb- was a chinese pedicab driver in tianjin who donated 350,000 yuan to enable more than 300 poor students continue with their studies .
in 2005 , he died at the age of 93 .
in 1987 he retired from his pedicab driving job and returned to his village where he saw many children working in the field because they could n't afford education .
at that time he was 74 years old and he decided to go back to his job of driving a pedicab in tianjin .
till 2001 he often worked long shifts , sometimes 24 hours at a stretch so that he could make the money to pay the installment for the school fee .
he got an accommodation close to the railway and would wait 24 hours a day , eat simple food and wore second hand discarded clothes .
at the age of 90 he paid his last installment to the school and retired from his job .
