A woman in Inner Mongolia who raised 28 orphans from Shanghai in the early 1960s was made an honorary citizen of the city on Wednesday.

Duguimaa, now 79, who raised the children when she was an unmarried 19-year-old herdswoman on the grasslands until adoptive parents were found, received the honor from Shanghai Party Secretary Li Qiang.

Li led a Shanghai delegation who drove some 100 kilometers from Hohhot to the Siziwang Banner in Ulanqab to present Duguimaa with a certificate and medal.