Zhao Xitong was born in a poor and backward village on the Loess Plateau, where there has been a belief that knowledge can change destiny since ancient times. However, this only applies to boys, while girls are destined to get married early and have children.
Zhao Xitong was unwilling to let her fate be arranged by her parents. She studied hard since she was a child and wanted to be like the boys in the village and use knowledge to change her destiny. However, her poor family made it impossible to realize the dream she pursued. In order to pay for her father's medical expenses and for her younger brother to study, she shouldered the burden of supporting the family on her thin shoulders.
When her younger brother graduated from college, she was relieved of the burden of the family but was forced to get married by her parents. At the age of twenty-five, she still refuses to let her fate be arranged by her parents. She still has a dream, and she wants to pursue it!
Taking advantage of the good policy of national poverty alleviation and her drive to refuse to admit defeat, she and her husband started a business on the vast Loess Plateau, becoming a leader in young people returning to their hometowns to start businesses, and guiding more young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses and become rich together. This changed the current situation in which young people in rural areas left a large number of elderly people and children behind when they went out to work, and became the first town in the county to be lifted out of poverty.
