Asur (1st R) of the Yi ethnic group from southwest China's Sichuan Province, a winner of the Jack Ma Rural Teachers Award, hugs one of her first students during the awarding ceremony in Sanya, a tourism resort in south China's Hainan Province, on Jan. 5, 2017. The awarding ceremony of the Jack Ma Rural Teachers Award was held on Thursday, with 100 rural teachers winning the award of 100,000 yuan (14,522 U.S. dollars) respectively. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)