As COVID-19 spreads across the world, many countries were forced into a state of emergency and millions of people are now limited to different levels of quarantine and isolation. In this moment of unprecedented crisis, young people are rising up to the challenge of the pandemic.

Liu Xian is one of them. The 24-year-old woman who volunteered to cook for medical workers in the city of Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak, was selected by the United Nations Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth as one of the "10 leaders who can inspire you to change the world" during the pandemic.

Affectionately known as "Raincoat Girl" due to her attire, she has become a viral sensation in China, and an inspiration to many around the world.

Liu is an ordinary entrepreneur who started a catering business in Chengdu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. When the epidemic erupted in Wuhan, she heard that frontline medical workers could rarely eat warm meals due to the extended working hours and the closure of local restaurants.

Therefore, she decided to head to the then outbreak epicenter and started preparing food for medics who battled at the anti-epidemic frontline, despite the risk of getting infected. 

On February 3, she arrived in Wuhan with her small team after over a 10-hour drive, bringing tons of meal ingredients to the city. 

In 40 days, she cooked over 20,000 meals for medical workers in over 20 hospitals, up to 400 to 600 meals a day. Her meals were of high quality, with enough meat and vegetables, to ensure the nutrition the medics badly needed for their hard work.

As the city's traffic was temporarily suspended, she decided to drive on her own to deliver meals to the hospitals. Since she always wore a raincoat during the delivery because she had no protective suits, she was given the nickname "Raincoat Girl."

Her selfless actions have warmed the hearts of thousands of frontline medical workers as well as residents in the city. Netizens have left numerous encouraging messages to her and praised her heroic actions on Chinese social media.

Apart from cooking and delivering meals, she helped raise funds and seek for resources to the local hospitals and donated the medical supplies herself. Her work resulted in medical resources and supplies worth over 3.5 million yuan (around 500,000 U.S. dollars), including one million yuan donated by her team.

Even though Liu didn't fear the coronavirus, she was concerned about her parents. She wrote down her will before leaving for Wuhan and sent a copy to her best friend and the original to her boss. "If I don't make it back, they would give it to my parents," she said.

Now, Liu has safely returned to her hometown and is undergoing a quarantine. But she didn't stop working. After learning that there was an overstock of agricultural products in Hubei Province due to the lockdown, she began to promote the sale of those products on her social media accounts in an effort to help Hubei's hard-hit farmers to recover. 

"Where there is a need for help, 'Raincoat Members' will be there to solve the problems," she said.