Qu Nengyou (C) and his wife Xiong Bizhen receive flowers from students at the Shenzhen airport when they returned from Longnan, Gansu Province, along with other Shenzhen teachers who had volunteered to teach there after the May 12 earthquake that hit Sichuan and parts of Gansu last year. Another group of volunteer teachers and workers will leave for Longnan to help local people in post-quake reconstruction.

Yu Haibo