While Li's work is rooted on the snowy plateau, 37-year-old Fan Jiang, a CPC member for 15 years and a member of the All-China Youth Federation, has taken a different path: building the digital rural economy.
Ecological protection measures along the Qinghai-Xizang Railway have steadily evolved over the past two decades, with wildlife passages, waste treatment systems and daily patrols minimizing the operational footprint on the fragile plateau environment.
The first railway to give Xizang in Southwest China access to the national rail network has handled 104 million passenger trips and 824 million tonnes of cargo over the past two decades.