(IC)

Liu Shenglan, a 90-year-old trash collector in a village of Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, has recently moved the nation with his selflessness.

Liu has used his meager income to aid more than 100 poor students nationwide for the past 17 years. He has sent these poor students more than 70,000 yuan ($11,000) after reading about their hardship in newspapers. Liu himself, however, lives on vegetables collected from garbage heaps.

He receives 1,800 yuan ($283.5) a year from the government, which he donates to struggling students. His neighbors and relatives cannot understand why Liu donates all his savings to others, leaving little for himself. Liu responds that he has no children and he doesn't want to pass away without leaving anything to the world. Liu stopped collecting trash earlier this year due to old age.