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Photo: Ma Yuhua has worked as a country doctor in her village in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region for 16 years. To visit patients' homes, Ma has worn out nearly 20 bicycles.

Buzzword: "Cool carl" refers to people who possess the quality of being both "cool" and as thrift as a "carl". This kind of "stinginess" is a new trend with a positive meaning because what "cool carl" advocates is "saving glorious; waste shameful". "Cool carls" are not necessarily poor or miserly but with high academic degrees and salaries.