There is Only Passion.

When Someone Notices Your Gainz

It’s a great feeling actually, knowing that other people observe your hard work!

Ma Sanxiao is sixty two-year-old retired veteran who lost both his legs

But that has not stopped him from planting more than 3,000 trees on nearby mountains in Jingxing county in Hebei Province during the past 10 years. Ma gets up before 5 a.m. every day, puts on his prosthetic limbs, and climbs the mountains to plants trees. 

It takes Ma more than 40 minutes to climb just hundreds of meters of mountain. Ma said that after the first amputation, he was distressed. He sold everything valuable at home and ran into heavy debt. 

He then began to plant trees more than 10 years ago on the barren mountains nearby, hoping to earn money by selling the trees. Later his situation improved as the pensions for retired veterans increased. Ma decided never to sell the trees and just let them improve the ecological environment. “I plant more trees to make the mountains greener. As you see, the straight lines of trees are just like green soldiers of the nature,” he said.