An unbreakable spirit

"Love and education are two powerful forces in this world. To me, they can remove the physical and psychological barriers in life," Wang says.

Lyu Shiming, vice-chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, says that Wang has been contributing to the motherland by promoting the well-being of people facing physical challenges.

"He believes that education can change the lives of many young people, as his own experience has proved, therefore he runs schools to exert the great influence of education," Lyu says.

He Chaoxian, a decadelong friend of Wang's, witnessed his battle to open the school, despite repeated setbacks in several other cities of China, and his success when he finally managed to do so in Changshu. Many times, Wang had been close to the finish line, but failed at the last hurdle.

"Few people believed he would succeed," recalls He, adding that apart from his persistence, it was Wang's vision of always taking social well-being into account in pursuit of his own dreams that especially impressed him.

Wang is excellent at encouraging people to work together to create something incredible, He says.

As a parent of a UWC South East Asia graduate, He is working with Wang on a project based on a biomedical technology company called Eosvision. This aims to realize large-scale production of bioregenerative corneas as a solution to insufficient cornea donations and rejections after transplantation.

It's an incubation project of the "UWC+"platform Wang's team and the local government of Changshu launched together to integrate resources of UWC alumni and their parents to promote technological innovation, attract investment and boost the city's development.