An advocate for high quality education

Bai Hailun knows that being a volunteer teacher in the remote regions of China is hard work that comes with little remuneration.

The 23-year-old is currently a teacher at Shujie Primary School in the rural township of Wuyin, Weishan county, in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Yunnan province. She teaches 21 classes of English, physical education and music every week.

She gets paid only 3,200 yuan ($476) per month, far below the median income of Beijing where she was born.