Bāshí niándài tā shì quánguó qīngnián xuéxí de bǎngyàng.
In the 1980s she was the nation's youth role model.
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Paralyzed from the chest down at age five, Zhang taught herself multiple languages and medicine. Deng Xiaoping inscribed a dedication to her in 1983, and she became the face of '80s 当代保尔 (contemporary Pavel Korchagin) - a Chinese symbol of perseverance.
