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好人好事 and Lei Feng
Handing in a lost wallet has a name in China: 好人好事, good people doing good deeds, a phrase learned in primary school. It descends from Lei Feng, a soldier held up after his death in 1962 as a model of selfless service, whose diary became a campaign — 学雷锋, learn from Lei Feng — and who still has a day, the fifth of March. Generations of children wrote essays about a good deed they had done, and the phrase has outlived the politics: used sincerely, wryly, or to tease someone being unusually helpful.