Delegate in Wheelchair

File photo taken in 2004 shows Hou Jingjing wearing academic gown of PhD Degree in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. Hou, with her legs paralyzed due to a misdiagnosis when she was 11, has struggled through life and won her PhD Degree at the Nanjing Normal University in 2004, becoming China's first female doctor in wheelchair. Now Hou works as an associate professor at the Nanjing Normal University. She was elected as a delegate to the 17th and 18th CPC national congresses. [Xinhua]