Neither age nor cancer slows model in Ningxia

Li Chunhong, 66, said it was cancer that fired her enthusiasm for life, pushing her to do things she had never dreamed of — being a model, for instance.

Li was a civil servant before retiring in 2017. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through 25 radiation treatments, suffering pain and depression.

"Knowing that life is limited, I wanted to do something I really liked," she said.