New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- Liang Yi has become China's first wheelchair anchor. The TV personality from Hunan suffered a sudden illness that changed her life.

Liang joined Hunan TV in 2001 and had a promising future. But, only four months into the job, she collapsed backstage. She later came to know that she had a rare spinal cord vascular malformation.

The condition ruptured and compressed her central nervous system. It left her paralysed from the chest down at age 22. Even though she regained movement in her upper limbs after surgery, she was put in a wheelchair.

Liang initially struggled with anger and frustration during her hospital stay. She felt her career and future had been taken away. Her perspective gradually shifted when she enco...