Airbin shows a photo of blue sheep on the Arbas Mountain taken by himself in Otog Qi of Erdos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 3, 2020. Airbin, 68, a man of Mongolian ethnic group, has been providing water for blue sheep living in the valley of the Arbas Mountain for ten years. He first got to know the wild animal in 2010, when he as a photography enthusiast followed the trail of blue sheep and found that the mother sheep could rarely feed her babies full due to lack of milk. As from then, Airbin himself carried barrels of water to the top of the mountain every two days and climbed down along the 100-meter-high steep cliff to drop the water into stone groove at the valley bottom to feed the blue sheep. Therefore the locals call him "father of blue sheep" for his kindness. In 2012, Airbin brought a 100-meter-long rubber water pipe himself and put it on the top of the mountain, so that the water can be poured through the pipeline all the way to the stone groove. In his care, the number of the blue sheep increases from four or five to 17 or 18 nowadays, a great example of harmonious living of human and the nature. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)
