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                                                                     a total of 278 individuals and 22 groups were awarded the title of role models of dedication at a ceremony held in beijing on wednesday. 
among them, six individuals and one group come from anhui province. they are listed as follows: 
18 villagers in xiaogang who put their fingerprints on a land-contracting agreement in 1978, dividing communally owned farmlands into plots for each family - a move marking the start of china’s rural reform; 
ye lianping, a 91-year-old retired teacher who has volunteered to help rural children learn english for 19 years; 
xu haifeng, who claimed china’s first olympic gold in 1984; 
zhang jie, a policeman who managed to protect the lives and property of the people but suffered 30 percent second-degree burns on his face and body; 
chen xian, who has offered free legal aid to ethnic minorities for six consecutive years; 
jin yuqin, a village head who contributed to local poverty alleviation; 
pan jianwei, a leading scientist who has been at the center of china’s efforts to reach quantum supremacy. 
                                                                    
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