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An inspirational Chinese woman who refused prosthetic limbs after losing her feet in a childhood accident now walks miles to work everyday- on her knees.

Every morning, Hu Fenglian, wraps her stumps with cloth before adding a pair of rubber 'shoes' made out of old bus tires.

She then shuffles for miles on her knees to get from her home deep in the mountains of southern China's Guangxi Province, to her job in the local village's lumberyard- earning her the local nickname of 'Sister Strong-Will'.

Hu was just six months old when she was severely injured after falling into a home heating stove leaving her with no feet and only partial lower legs.

She was offered the chance of a pair of prosthetic legs but said she found them too uncomfortable.

'After wearing them, my legs would swell, painful and inflammable. I had to quit them,' she explained.

Then tragedy struck again in 1982, when her husband abandoned her and the family, leaving her to support their four-month-old baby.

Despite losing so much, Hu said she wasn't angry or bitter, only grateful she survived the accident. 'I never feel the life is unfair to me,' she said.

Refusing to let it hold her back, she added she had never dreamed of begging. Instead the incredible mother took every job she could- from plowing the fields to even working down a mine between 2006 and 2010- all while walking on her knees.

'I have no feet, but I have hands and I have strength. I can support myself,' said the 50-year-old.

'I did every job to support the family and my little daughter. I crawled in the field in plowing it.

'I worked in the quarry, and I learnt to make embroideries. I felt guilty as I can't give her a better life.

'My principles are simple, sharing, friendly, and working hard. I don't care much about the amount of salaries, as long as I work with a happy team and company.'

From last October, with the help of local disabled people association, she has now found a job in a local lumber factory.