Youngest deputy to 12th NPC (1/6)

Tie Feiyan, a deputy to the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), walks to the Great Hall of the People to attend the opening meeting of the first session of the 12th NPC in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2013. Tie, born in Aug. 1992, a toll-taker in Zhaotong of southwest China's Yunnan Province. Chinese netizens hailed her as "the most beautiful girl born after 1990," as she once rescued people from drowning and has adopted an abandoned infant. After being elected as a NPC deputy, Tie had visited lots of "left-behind" children, who lived with their grandparents as their parents had migrated to cities for work as well as urban migrant population to find difficulties and problems in their daily life. As a result, when she came to Beijing for her first NPC session, she suggested to enhance the protection of the rights and benefits for "left-behind" children. She said that she had strong confidence to keep the duty as a NPC deputy in the coming five years. (Xinhua/Qin Qing)