VIDEO: Blind man and armless man plant 12,000 trees

A man with no arms and his blind friend have populated a once-barren river bank in China with 12,000 trees.

For the past 13 years, Jia Wenqi, 53, with no arms, and Jia Haixia, 54, have planted and watered cedar trees on the bank of the river Ye near their village in Hebei province.

"This empty riverbank was only dry sand and pebbles. It was deserted for many years. For normal people, it was impossible to plant trees there," Wenqi said. "But as the saying goes: Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."