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LULIANG COUNTY, CHINA - JANUARY 5: (CHINA OUT) Eight-year-old handicapped Chinese girl Qian Hongyan, who uses two home-made props and part of a basketball to get around, plays at home at Zhuangxia Village on January 5, 2005 in Luliang County of Qujing City, Yunnan Province, China. The girl who lost both of her legs in a traffic accident in 2000 at the age of three, struggles to live her life with a basketball as an underprop, "walking" between school and home by herself. The girl's story is widely reported in the country, and experts from China Rehabilitation Research Center has come to Qian's home to help her for rehabilitative treatment early this year. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

LULIANG COUNTY, CHINA - JANUARY 5: (CHINA OUT) Eight-year-old handicapped Chinese girl Qian Hongyan, who uses two home-made props and part of a basketball to get around, plays at home at Zhuangxia Village on January 5, 2005 in Luliang County of Qujing City, Yunnan Province, China. The girl who lost both of her legs in a traffic accident in 2000 at the age of three, struggles to live her life with a basketball as an underprop, "walking" between school and home by herself. The girl's story is widely reported in the country, and experts from China Rehabilitation Research Center has come to Qian's home to help her for rehabilitative treatment early this year. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)