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Boy band member galvanizes fans for larger causes. Yan Dongjie reports.

When TFBoys band member Wang Yuan said the "internet is necessary for improving education in the rural areas", fans of the teen singer got together to turn his words into reality by donating a mobile signal tower to Jiangxinzhuang village on the eastern edge of Beijing.

The Roy Signal Station, coined after Wang's English name, is 35 meters high and will provide the village with 4G communication signaling for at least two decades, covering one primary school and two kindergartens. It was the fans' way of celebrating their idol's 17th birthday in November.