Her identity is very simple, Dashan's daughter, a "farmer who can't get rid of mud on his trouser legs all his life."

Her identity is not simple. She was successively elected as the deputy of Hengyang Municipal People's Congress, the 10th Hunan Provincial People's Congress, the 11th National People's Congress and the 12th National People's Congress, and won the honorary titles of "Top Ten Entrepreneurship Models, Outstanding Public Welfare Enthusiasts", "March 8th Red Flag Bearer" and "Top Ten Public Welfare Figures in 2007", and was awarded the "China Achievement Award for Promoting Public Welfare". "Top Ten Entrepreneurial Models in China" and "Outstanding People who are enthusiastic about public welfare". In the 1980s, Wu Donglan and her husband Li operated a coal mine in the village next door, which gradually turned the coal mine into a profit and developed into a leading enterprise in leiyang city. This simple peasant woman never forgets her neighbors when she gets rich. Since 1993, Wu Donglan has donated14 million yuan to build highways, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and public welfare undertakings such as poverty alleviation, student aid and disaster relief.