He used to be a top official in South China's Hainan Province, but chose to be a farmer with his wife after retirement, determined to do something for the farmers back in his hometown.
Tian Fengshan, former minister of land and resources, was sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes worth US$538,000.
Liu Ke, a second-year female postgraduate in Chongqing University, can often be found performing in different dance shows, raising money in an effort to save her seriously ill mother.