‘Life without dreams is scarier’: disabled Chinese woman who crawls to get around makes US$700,000 a year raising cattle, inspires social media
- Pan Yuangxiang has been paralysed below the waist since she was 3 and now gets around by crawling
- After repeated job rejections, she was forced to beg on the streets to get by
A disabled woman who can only move around by crawling on all fours has become a minor celebrity in China after she started a lucrative cattle-breeding business.
The enterprise has been such a success that it just declared an annual income of five million yuan (US$690,000), reported Star News.
Pan Yuangxiang, 43, from Yibin in Sichuan province, southwestern China, was left partially paralysed below the waist by an act of medical negligence when she was three years old.
The injuries she suffered resulted in her learning to get around by crawling.
Pan faced repeated job rejections after finishing vocational high school aged 23, and at one point was forced to beg on the streets, reported The Paper.
However, with hard work and a little help, she learned how to master technology design and began getting online work, quickly saving enough money for a down payment on a property.