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By Jerry Shi: 05-14-2012 18:06 BJT CNTV News



A 94-year-old woman has collected waste bottles and paper in a popular Beijing shopping district for more than 10 years to take care of her 74-year-old daughter
with congenital physical disabilities, anhuinews.com reported.

Dragging a walker and moving from one trash can to another, Li Xiuying can only walk 100 meters in 30 minutes. Although she receives welfare support, Li still hopes that she
can earn as much as she can to buy medicine for her daughter Hou Changfeng, who also has high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease. Li collects approximately 40 – 50
bottles every day, earning about 100 yuan ($15.82) per month.

A security said that Li usually leaves her home at 6 pm to look for plastic bottles in Wangfujing, and heads back home at around 10 pm. Hou will come to help her mother from
time to time, but it seems that Li doesn’t want her daughter to do it.

Li moved from Anhui Province to Beijing in 1950. She now lives with her daughter in a room which is less than 6 square meters large. The room belongs to a family for whom the
old woman used to work at as a nanny.



People who work near the street and know Li’s story often help her by preparing all the waste bottles and paper for her, and some even donate money to her.

Li and her daughter always talk about their old home in Anhui’s Wuwei County. Hou remembers that when she was young, her mother would beg for steamed buns and give them
to her and her brother, who died of cancer years ago, while the old lady ate only porridge only.

“I never thought my mother would be taking care of me when I am 74 years old,” Hou said.

No reports have mentioned what happened to Li's husband.

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A sad story.