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Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History CONTENTS

Heroes from 1919 to 1949

P3-P12

Heroes from 1949 to 1978 Heroes from 1978 to 2012

P21-P28

Heroes Since 2012

P13-P20 P29-P38 The Chinese nation reveres heroism and has produced many heroes during its long history. Over past 100 years since the founding of the Communist Party of in 1921, generations of Party members have devoted themselves to tireless hard work. Among them are many who sacrificed their lives for the Chinese revolution, many who made great contributions to society and many who were role models of selflessness. Through their firm belief, patriotism, love for the people and diligence, they exemplify the national character and provide a guiding light to lead the Chinese nation forward. 1921-2021 3 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Heroes From 1919-1949

Ma Benzhai Fang Zhimin Mao Zemin Wang Erzhuo

Wang Jinmei Deng Zhongxia Deng Enming Wei Baqun

Ye Ting Liu Zhidan Liu Hulan Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 4 1919-1949

Ji Hongchang Xiang Jingyu Jiang Zhujun Shuheng

Zhang Tailei Zhang Si-de Dazhao Yang Kaihui

Yang Jingyu Su Zhaozheng Chen Yannian Chen Tanqiu 5 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Xian Xinghai Zhou Wenyong and Chen Tiejun Luo Binghui Yun Daiying

Zhao Yiman Xia Minghan Zhuangfei Huang Gonglue

Peng Pai Dong Zhentang

Cai Hesen Qu Qiubai Liulaozhuang Company Five heroes of Mount Langya Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 6

Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao Li Dazhao in Cover of LA JEUNESSE Article written by Li Dazhao

Li Dazhao cally eulogized the October beginning of 1920, Li Dazhao between , Revolution. and other revolutionaries and , helping Li Dazhao was born In the process of publiciz- began to discuss the es- Sun Yat-sen re-organize the in , ing the , tablishment of proletarian and making Province in 1889. In 1913, Li changed from a patriotic political parties in China. In great contributions to the he traveled to and democrat to a Marxist, and the autumn of the same year, establishment of the United studied at then became the earliest he led the establishment of front for the first cooperation in Tokyo, and began to con- disseminator of in the early Party organizations between the Kuomintang tact with socialist thoughts China. After the May Fourth in Beijing and the Beijing and the CPC. Li also led party and Marxist theories. After Movement in 1919, he de- Socialist Youth League, and organization in the north to returning to China in 1916, voted himself more to the actively promoted the estab- cooperate with the May 30th Li Dazhao went to Peking propaganda of Marxism and lishment of nationwide Party Movement and the Northern University as a library director systematically introduced organizations. Expedition, launched anti- and professor of economics, Marxist theory. Li Dazhao After the founding of the imperialist and anti-warlord and actively participated in promoted the wide spread CPC, Li, on behalf of the CPC struggles, and made out- and became a leader in the of Marxism in China and Central Committee, led the standing contributions to . Li prepared the ideological con- work in , publi- the victory of the Great was greatly encouraged by ditions for the founding of the cized Marxism, launched the Revolution. the victory of the October Communist Party of China. workers’ movement, and es- On April 6, 1927, Li was Revolution in Russia. He pub- Li is one of the main tablished Party organizations. arrested and imprisoned lished articles and speeches founders of the Communist From 1922 to 1924, he was in Beijing. On April 28th, Li continuously and enthusiasti- Party of China (CPC). At the entrusted by the Party to run Dazhao died at the age of 38. 7 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

He Shuheng

Building ruins of Supreme Court of Soviet Republic of China, The portrait of He Shuheng The lantern He Shuheng used where He Shuheng served as interim Chairman

He Shuheng initiated the establishment 1927, a Ma Ri incident oc- of the Central of Xinmin Society, and in curred in . He went , He was ordered He Shuheng, a repre- 1920 jointly initiated the es- to Shanghai to set up an un- to stay in the Central sentative of the first CPC tablishment of ’s early derground printing factory Revolutionary Base and National Congress and one Communist Party organiza- for the Party and persisted persist in guerrilla warfare. of the founders of the CPC, tions. in secret struggle. In 1928, On February 24, 1935, on was born in a peasant fam- In July 1921, Mao and after the closing of the Sixth the way from to ily in City, Hunan He, as Hunan representa- National Congress of the , He died heroically in Province in 1876. In 1913, tives, went to Shanghai to CPC, He Shuheng entered the battle to break through 37-year-old He was admitted attend CPC’s First National Sun Yat-sen University in Changting. At the age of to the First Normal Workshop Congress. In October, He to study. 59, he used his life to fulfill in Hunan Province, where he participated in the formation In November 1931, the clank oath of “I want to met , and they of Hunan Branch of the CPC He entered the Central shed the last drop of blood forged friendship. In April and served as a member Revolutionary Base. In for Soviet”. 1918, He, Mao and others of the branch. On May 21, October 1934, after the Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 8

Peng Pai

Cover of Peng Pai’s book The portrait of Peng Pai Haifeng Peasant Movement The painting of Peng Pai

Peng Pai town, to spread Marxism. 1927, he went to , established. In the spring of In the summer of 1922, he initiated and organized 1928, Peng Pai led the revo- Born in October 1896 in went to the countryside the Provisional Executive lutionary army of workers and Haifeng County, alone, learned about farm- Committee of All-China peasants to expand the revo- Province, Peng Pai is a pro- ers’ sufferings, and mobilized Farmers Association with lutionary base with Hailufeng letarian revolutionary of the farmers to organize and Mao, and served as member as the center to the southern older generation of CPC, a pi- carry out peasant movement. of the Executive Committee part of Dongjiang River. oneer of the Chinese peasant Peng wrote Haifeng Peasant and Secretary General. In November 1928, Peng revolutionary movement, and Movement. He is known as After the failure of the Pai was elected as a mem- the founder of the famous “King of Peasant Movement”. Great Revolution, Peng went ber of the Political Bureau Hailufeng Soviet regime. Mao Zedong pointed out in to Nanchang to lead the of the Central Committee, Peng went to Japan to the “Investigation Report of Nanchang Uprising. The and was ordered to go to study in his early years. In Hunan Peasant Movement” August 7th meeting of the Shanghai, where he served as 1918, he entered Waseda that “county politics must CPC elected the Provisional secretary of the Agriculture University in Japan to study be clarified by farmers, and Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC political economy. During Haifeng in Guangdong has Committee, and he was Central Committee, mem- his stay in Japan, he actively already proved it.” elected as a member of the ber of the Central Military participated in the patriotic In April 1924, Peng be- Political Bureau and later Commission of the CPC movement of Chinese stu- came a member of the CPC, served as a member of the Central Committee, and dents studying abroad. and went to Guangzhou to Southern Bureau of the CPC Secretary of the Military After returning to China lead the peasant movement Central Committee. Commission of in May 1921, Peng joined and set up a workshop for In October 1927, Peng Provincial Party Committee. the Chinese Socialist Youth the peasant movement. In returned to Guangdong. On August 24, 1929, Peng League and founded the the later Great Revolution, he In November, the armed was arrested and imprisoned Socialist Research Society served as the commander-in- uprising broke out again in in Longhua Prison. On August and the Workers’ Compassion chief of Guangdong Peasant Hailufeng and the Soviet 30, 1929, Peng was killed by Society in Haifeng, his home- Self-Defense Force. In March, regime in Hailufeng was reactionaries at only 33. 9 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Mao Zemin

The portrait of Mao Zemin Handwriting of Mao Zemin when The prison that the enemy kept Mao Zemin he worked in

Mao Zemin of the Provisional Central Mao Zemin served as the Mao Zemin has been in Government of Chinese captain and deputy director charge of financial power for Mao Zemin was born in Soviet Republic. In a short of the confiscation and col- a long time, but he is honest Shaoshan, , Hunan time, he solved the difficul- lection committee, deputy and spotless. He often said: Province in 1896. He joined ties such as the serious head of the advance team “You can’t spend a penny the revolution in 1921 and shortage of financial talents, and deputy director of the indiscriminately. Leading soon joined the CPC. the lack of reserve funds general supply depart- cadres should take the lead in At the beginning of and the chaotic circulation ment. At that time, the 15th hard work. We are managing 1931, Mao Zemin entered of various currencies in the Brigade was called “the money for workers and peas- the Central Revolutionary Soviet Area. national bank on the pole”, ants and managing money Base and served as the In October 1934, the Red which solved the arduous for the Red Army. We must manager minister of the Army began the Long March. tasks of transportation, beat- be diligent and economical! “ Fujian-Guangdong-Jiangxi The Ministry of Finance and ing local tyrants, raising grain On September 27, 1943, Military Region. In 1931, the National Bank of the and raising funds, and ensur- Mao Zemin was secretly killed Mao Zemin was appointed Soviet Central Government ing supply during the Long by the enemy at the age of as the governor of the Bank formed the 15th Brigade. March. 47. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 10

Zhao Yiman

The Portrait of Zhao Yiman File photo taken in east China’s Shanghai in The sculpture of Zhao Yiman 1928 shows Zhao Yiman and her son

Zhao Yiman the summer of 1926. struggle. In the autumn She was discovered by the In September 1927, Zhao of 1935, Zhao Yiman was Japanese army during her Zhao, formerly known Yiman went to study at Sun appointed as a political com- rehabilitation. She was injured as Li Kuntai, was born on Yat-sen University in Moscow. missar of the 2nd Regiment again in the battle and was October 25, 1905 in Yibin, After returning home the of the 1st Division of the captured in a coma. During . After the May Fourth following year, she secretly 3rd Army of Northeast Anti- her capture, the Japanese Movement broke out, Zhao carried out Party work in Japanese Coalition Forces. In tortured Zhao to force her to Yiman began to accept new Yichang, Nanchang and November, the 2nd regiment confess. She would rather die revolutionary ideas. In the Shanghai. was besieged in a mountain than surrender and sternly winter of 1923, Zhao Yiman After the September by Japanese and puppet denounced the Japanese ag- joined the Chinese Socialist 18th Incident in 1931, Zhao troops. Zhao was seriously gression. On August 2, 1936, Youth League and oined the was sent to Northeast China injured in order to cover the Zhao died heroically at the Communist Party of China in to launch the anti-Japanese troops to break through. age of 31. 11 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Zhang Si-de

Mao Zedong’s calligraphy of “serve the people”, The painting of Zhang Si-de wrote in 1944 for Zhang Si-de The Monument of Zhang Si-de

Zhang Si-de Red Fourth Army in the Central Committee, Zhang moment, Zhang pushed Long March and joined the took the initiative to sign soldier Xiaobai out of the In 2009, Zhang Si-de was Communist Party of China up for the production team kiln, but he was buried in the elected as “100 heroic model in 1937. In November 1942, organized by the central au- collapsed soil. His comrades figures who made outstand- Zhang transferred the 1st thorities and was elected as were saved, but Zhang lost ing contributions to the Company of the Central the vice-captain of the farm. his life at the age of 29. founding of P.R.C.” Guard Corps as a soldier. In July of the same year, On September 8, 1944, Zhang was born in Soon, he was transferred to he burned charcoal in the more than 1,000 people from a poor peasant family in Yan’an Zaoyuan, where Mao mountains of Ansai County. the Central directly under Yilong County, Sichuan Zedong and other central On September 5th, when it the authority and the Central Province in 1915. He leading comrades worked was raining, Zhang took the Guard Corps held a memorial joined the Red Army in to perform guard duties. comrades of the commando service for Zhang in Yan’an. 1933 and the Communist At the beginning of team into the mountains as Mao Zedong personally at- Youth League of China in 1944, in response to the usual to dig a new kiln. At tended the memorial service the same year. In 1935, call of the mass produc- noon, the charcoal kiln col- and delivered a memorial Zhang Si-de joined the tion movement of the CPC lapsed in the rain. In a critical speech. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 12

Five heroes of Mount Langya

The monument tower of the Five People visit the monument of Five Heroes of Mount Langya Heroes of Mount Langya The painting of the Five Heroes of Mount Langya

Five heroes of Military Region, Eighth Route find the company shifting sunset. At the last minute, Army was ordered to cover direction, they fought and the brave men would rather Mount Langya the transfer of party and withdrew, leading the enemy die than surrender, and after On September 25, 1941, government organs, troops to the peak of Qipan Tuo in destroying all their guns, they about 3,500 Japanese and and the masses. When the Langya Mountain. jumped off deep cliffs without Puppet troops besieged mission was completed They ran out the last hesitation. Langya Mountain in the and evacuated, five soldiers, bullet, threw out the last The brave and tenacious southwest of Yi County, Hebei including Ma Baoyu of the grenade, and threw stones iron will of the five strong Province. The 7th Company 6th class, were left to guard at the enemy, killing and men in Langya Mountain has of the 1st Regiment, 1st the troops. In order not to let injuring more than 90 en- become an immortal monu- Military Division, Jinchaji the Japanese puppet troops emies, and kept fighting until ment of the Chinese nation. 13 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Heroes From 1949-1978

Ma Haide (Shafick George Hatem) Mao Anying Wang Jie Wang Jinxi

Ganzuchang and Gong Quanzhen Shen Jilan Israel Epstein Wu Yunduo

Shi Chuanxiang Mai Xiande Meng Tai Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 14 1949-1978

Rong Guotuan Chang Xiangyu

Huang Jiguang

The Eighth Company of PLA Patrolling the Road 15 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 1949-1978 23 founding fathers for China’s “two bombs and one satellite”

Yu Min Wang Dayan

Sun Jiadong Xinmin Wu Ziliang Chen Fangyun

Chen Nengkuan Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 16 1949-1978 23 founding fathers for China’s “two bombs and one satellite”

Tu Shoue Cheng Kaijia Peng Hengwu

Wang Ganchang Jeou Jang Jaw Yao Tongbin

Qian Ji Qian Shanqiang Guo Yonghuai 17 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Wang Jinxi

The portrait of Wang Jinxi Wang Jinxi jumped into the mud pit to stir the mud Museum of Wang Jinxi’s former residence

Wang Jinxi meters per month; in 1959, the hospital, and he ran from jumped into the mud pit, fi- the annual drilling footage the hospital to the well site of nally suppressing the blowout Wang Jinxi was born reached the latest national the second well (well 2589), and saving the drilling rig and in Yumen County, Gansu record of 71,000 meters. and commanded the drilling oil well. Province in October 1923. In March 1960, Wang led with crutches; When drill- In July 1960, Wang was After the founding of People’s the 1205 drilling team from ing to about 700 meters, a established as one of the Republic of China (PRC), he Yumen to Daqing. Through blowout suddenly occurred. “five red flags” in the whole worked in Yumen Drilling the joint efforts of the whole There is no barite powder war zone. In 1964, Wang Team and joined the CPC in team of workers, it took only for well killing in the well pad. was elected as a deputy to 1956. 5 days and 4 hours to finish After research, it is decided the Third National People’s He has served as a driller, the first production well in to increase mud density and Congress. In the spring of drilling captain, captain of the oilfield. pressure blowout by adding 1969, Wang was elected as the second drilling brigade After the first well was cement. When cement is representative of the nineth of the drilling headquarters, drilled, Wang was injured added to the mud pit, it sinks National Congress of the CPC and deputy commander of by the drill pipe rolled down to the bottom, and there is no and a member of the Central the drilling headquarter. In from the drill pipe pile and mixer. Wang throws away his Committee. September 1958, he led the fainted at that time; But he crutches, jumps into the mud In November 1970, Wang 1205 drilling team to create woke up and went on work- pit, and stirs the mud with his Jinxi died of illness at the age the latest record of 5,009 ing. The leader sent him to body; Other comrades also of 47. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 18

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou at work Tu Youyou was conferred the Nobel Prize in Tu Youyou was awarded the Medal of the Republic Physiology or Medicine on December 10, 2015 on September 29, 2019

Tu Youyou In 1980, she was hired as a drugs-artemisinin and dihy- Prize in science and the first master’s tutor and in 2001 as droartemisinin. In September female scientist to win the Tu Youyou was born on a doctoral tutor. 2011, she won the Lasker highest national science and December 30, 1930. She is a She has been engaged Prize, which is known as the technology award in China. In pharmacist, lifelong research- in research on the combina- “weather vane” of Nobel 2019, 89-year-old Tu Youyou er and chief researcher of tion of traditional Chinese Prize. In 2015, she won the won the heaviest award in his China Academy of Traditional medicine and western medi- Nobel Prize in Physiology or life—“Medal of the Republic” Chinese Medicine, and direc- cine for many years, and her Medicine. issued by the People’s tor of artemisinin research outstanding contribution is Tu is the first Chinese na- Republic of China for the first and development center. to create new antimalarial tive scientist to win the Nobel time. 19 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Jiao Yulu

Jiao Yulu People visits the Jiao Yulu Memorial Hall in Lankao Thea Chinese parasol tree Jiao Yulu County, Province planted are blossoming

Jiao Yulu suffered from sandstorm, seal sand, control water and ask questions. At the same salinity and waterlogging. change land, Jiao took the time, he constantly studied Jiao Yulu, born in August Jiao Yulu suffered from lead and set an example. He and sorted out the valuable 1922 in Beigushan Village, chronic liver disease, but often went against the wind experience of the masses in City, Province, the day after he arrived and sand to check the wind fighting against natural disas- joined the CPC in January in Lankao, he started to and explore the quicksand; ters, and gradually formed a 1946. conduct grass-roots inves- When the rain was pouring, set of effective ways to con- In December 1962, tigations. In more than one he took the lead in watch- trol sand and water, which Jiao was work in lankao year, he traveled to more ing the waist-deep flood to became a powerful weapon county, and served as the than 120 of the county’s see the flood flow; When for the people of the county Second Secretary and later over 140 brigades. the wind and snow were to overcome disasters. On Secretary of the CPC county In the struggle of leading overwhelming, he led the May 14, 1964, Jiao died from committee. the people in the county to cadres to visit the poor and liver cancer at 42. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 20

Lei Feng

Lei Feng Mao Zedong’s calligraphy “ Volunteers learn from Lei Feng and help the neighbourhood from Lei Feng” mending their home applliances

Lei Feng dinary deeds in his ordinary in-arms, and cared for the tion. He once served as an post. The company assigned masses. He regarded “not off-campus counselor, and Lei Feng was born in him as an automobile soldier, being selfish, but being spe- used his exemplary actions 1940 in Wangcheng County, and he worked hard to study cialized in benefiting others” to influence and motivate Hunan Province. In January driving skills and became a as the greatest happiness in the healthy growth of the 1960, Lei Feng was drafted qualified automobile driver. his life, and put his limited life younger generation. When into the army. He joined the After being the monitor, he into infinite service for the he was on a business trip, he CPC in November of the managed boldly, took the people. He used his saved served tea and water for pas- same year. lead in everything, and led money to help the affected sengers as soon as he got on Lei Feng said: “I would like the whole class to become people and his comrades the train. to be a screw forever.” With the advanced collective of in poor families, and often On August 15, 1962, Lei the of being willing to be the army. used holidays and rest time Feng died when he was carry- a “screw”, he worked, loved He loved the collective, to do good things for the ing out transportation tasks, and drilled, and made extraor- cared for his comrades- people near the army sta- only 22 years old. 21 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Chang Xiangyu

Chang Xiangyu Chang Xiangyu dressed in The “Xiangyu Drama Club” fighter Chang Xiangyu donated to Yu Opera costum the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army

Chang Xiangyu Culture, as well as Founder , Changsha and Resist US Aggression and Aid of Chang School, the main Guangzhou to support the Korea. Chang Xiangyu was born school of . War to Resist US Aggression Chang also served as in 1923 and passed away As a people’s artist, and Aid Korea. She donated a deputy to the First to in 2004. She is a renowned Chang not only pursues the “Xiangyu Drama Club” Seventh National People’s performing artist of Henan excellence in art, but also fighter with the raised funds. Congress, and won the Opera, the dean of Henan cares for the country. From In April 1953, she led Henan honorary titles of national Opera Academy and the August 1951 to March 1952, Opera Team to hold more model worker and national art consultant of Henan Chang led drama clubs to than 180 performances in outstanding literary and art Provincial Department of give charity performances in the front line of the War to worker. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 22

23 Founding Fathers for China’s “Two Bombs and One Satellite”

On October 16, 1964, there was a loud noise in the depths of the desert, and China’s first atomic bomb exploded successfully; On October 27, 1966, China’s first ground-to-ground missile equipped with a nuclear warhead exploded successfully; On June 17, 1967, China’s first hydrogen bomb air explosion test was successful; On April 24, 1970, China’s first artificial satellite was successfully launched.

China’s first satellite, Dong Fang Hong 1 satellite, was China detonates its first atomic China detonates its first hydrogen bomb successful launched into space on April 24, 1970 bomb on October 16, 1964. on June 17, 1967

Twenty-three the research and develop- through many obstacles the cause of a strong coun- ment of China’s first atomic and obstacles and resolutely try.” said so. founding fathers bomb, hydrogen bomb, and returned to the motherland. The research and devel- for China’s “two artificial satellite. There are also many people opment of “two bombs and Many of them, such who, like Yu Min, have been one satellite” started on the bombs and one as Qian Xuesen and Guo incognito for decades in or- basis of new China’s being left satellite” Yonghuai, have made great der to develop “two bombs in ruins and being poor. From achievements in their stud- and one satellite”, and even the first atomic bomb explo- Twenty-three found- ies abroad, and enjoyed their families don’t know sion to the successful test of ing fathers for China’s “two superior scientific research their specific work. “A per- the first hydrogen bomb, it bombs and one satellite” and living conditions. son’s name will disappear took more than seven years fathers are outstanding rep- However, in order to devote sooner or later. It is enough for the United States, but only resentatives of groups who themselves to the construc- to be gratified to integrate two years and eight months have devoted themselves to tion of China, they broke his meager strength into for China. 23 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Heroes From 1978-2012

Kong Fansen Wang Wei Wang Ying Bao Qifan

Ye Xin Ren Changxia Xu Zhenchao Xu Haifeng

Li Xiangqun Yang Yegong Su Ning Lin Junde Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 24 1978-2012

Jason Sonandaje Hu Fuming Geng Xie Gaohua

Lu Yao Advocates of

18 farmers of Xianggang village initiators of Household Contract Responsibility All members of brigade of the Chinese PLA 25 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Kong Fansen

Kong Fansen Kong Fansen (left) teaches Tibetan children to read books during his work in

Kong Fansen November 1994 he was ary to help Tibetan orphans busier with Party and gov- killed in a traffic accident. or buy medicine for the ernment work, carrying out Kong Fansen (1944- Conditions on the sick. investigations and visiting 1994) spent two periods Tibetan Plateau are harsh In 1988, Kong was ap- local people across Tibet. working in Tibet; from 1979 but Kong Fansen never pointed deputy mayor of Kong’s exemplary efforts to 1981 and from 1988 to thought about himself. Lhasa. While in Lhasa, he to promote development 1994. During his time there He lived a simple life, was systematically visited all won him the affection and Kong made major contribu- renowned for his honesty the public schools in the respect of the Tibetan peo- tions to the reconstruction and never using his official area. After being appointed ple, and he was singled out and development of Tibet position for personal gain. Communist Party Secretary as a model for leaders and and formed close ties with On the contrary, he often of the Ngari Prefecture in government functionaries the Tibetan people. In spent his own meager sal- 1992, he became even across China. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 26

Ren Changxia

Distinguished policewoman, Ren Changxia shakes hands with local residents Ren Changxia in District of Zhengzhou, Capital of Henan Province

Ren Changxia of Zhengzhou, she achieved sioner in Henan’s history. In Unfortunately, she never ar- unprecedented success in , many cases were rived at Dengfeng. She died Ren Changxia was born in Henan, with 1,072 cases previously left unsolved, so from injuries related to a car Zhengzhou, Henan Province handled and more than 950 Ren pledged to change the accident. She was 40. on February 8, 1964. After culprits captured. During her tone of the department with- From the day Ren began graduating from police train- four years in the department in 100 days. The investigative her work, she remained faith- ing school in 1983, she began of public security and legal process for many cases was ful to the CPC and dutifully to work as a preliminary in- work in Zhengzhou, Ren han- laborious. Sometimes Ren fulfilled her responsibility vestigator at the Zhengzhou dled more than 1,000 cases, and her colleagues had to to serve the people. In her Police Station. Studious and all of which were handled spend tens of days in the field lifetime, she received more modest, she became an professionally and fairly. under difficult conditions. than 40 achievement awards. expert police officer and in- In April 2001, Ren was On April 14, 2004, In 2004 and 2009, Ren was vestigator. promoted to commissioner after reporting to work in named one of the 100 key Statistics showed that of Dengfeng Police Station. Zhengzhou, Ren drove back people who has “Moved during Ren’s stay in the There, Ren became the to Dengfeng that night to China” in the years since the Zhongyuan pre-trial division first female police commis- handle an important case. nation’s founding. 27 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Xu Haifeng

Xu Haifeng (front) takes the gold medal in individual free pistol at the 23rd Olympic Xu Haifeng Games in , on July 29, 1984. This was China’s first Olympic gold medal, breaking China’s “zero record” in Olympic gold medals

Xu Haifeng Olympic gold medal, break- a real crack shot despite Games, China’s first Olympic ing China’s “zero record” in the lack of professional gold medal winner, coach Xu Haifeng，born on Olympic gold medals. regular training. In 1982, of two Olympic gold medal August 1, 1957 in Fujian From shooting birds Xu enrolled in the winners, creator of the Province，is a former with a sling when he was lit- provincial shooting team, country’s history of Olympic Chinese shooter. On July tle to winning the Olympic and two years later in 1984, golds — Xu has many 29, 1984, Xu Haifeng took gold, Xu Haifeng has always the marksman started his accolades and will be re- the gold medal in individual been an ambitious sharp- career on the na- membered as a sports hero. free pistol 60 shots at the shooter. Through years of tional team. True to his nicknames of 23rd , which strict, self-disciplined prac- A self-trained world “Gold Athlete” and “Gold were held in Los Angeles. tice, the determined Xu champion, the first gold Coach,” he is a legend who Xu’s win was China’s first trained himself to become winner of the 23rd Olympic will never fade. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 28

Yuan Geng

Shekou Industrial Park before China adopted reform Industrial Park in 2015 Yuan Geng (left) inspects Shekou and opening up policy Industrial Zone in 1980

Yuan Geng an industrial park with an pattern and path. of his many other creations: investment of HK$60 mil- Yuan also established China International Marine Yuan Geng, born in 1917, lion to an industrial kingdom China Nanshan Development Containers (Group) Co., Ltd., is the founder of the Shekou worth over 20 billion yuan (Group) Incorporation, China’s CSG Technology Holding Industrial Zone and a reform by the 1990s. At that time, first Sino-foreign joint venture Co., Ltd., Chiwan trailblazer during China’s re- Shekou’s per capita gross implementing a shareholding Wharf Holdings Limited, and form and opening up strive. domestic output was US$50 system, and China Merchants China Nanshan Development On July 2, 1979, groundbreak- million, on a par with the Bank, the first joint-stock (Group) Incorporation. ing for the Shekou Industrial Four Asian Tigers. commercial bank on China’s In 2016, Yuan passed Park (SIP) commenced, kick- More significantly, mainland, and initiated away in Shenzhen at the age ing off the country’s reform Shekou served as a window the founding of Ping An of 99. Yuan was awarded and opening-up. for the country’s economic Insurance Company of China, with the title of the “the most Over the 14 years of reform and opening-up, the first joint-stock insurance beautiful striver” for his con- his tenure, Yuan Geng wit- navigating economic devel- company on the Chinese tributions in China’s reform nessed his SIP grow from opment with a brand-new mainland. Yuan is still proud and opening up. 29 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

18 farmers of Xianggang village

Farmers of Xiaogang village take a group photo Xiaogang village in the past Xiaogang village in 2021

18 farmers of secret agreement to divide 90,000 kilograms in 1979, enables farmers to use land communally owned farmland over six times as much as the through long-term con- Xiaogang village: into individual pieces called previous year. The per capita tracts and keep the produce initiators of household contracts, thus in- income of Xiaogang climbed after paying taxes. It raised advertently lighting the torch to 400 yuan from 22 yuan. productivity and increased Household for China’s rural revolution. Household Contract agricultural output, both of Contract They promised that each Responsibility System, start- which were preconditions Responsibility household would deliver a ing from Xiaogang village, for nurturing the economic full quota of grain to the state allows farming households takeoff, and comprehensive System and to the commune, and to manage agricultural industrialization and ur- In 1978, 18 farmers keep whatever remained. production on their own banization. The start of this in Xiaogang village, in east Before 1978, Xiaogang initiatives while the farmland system is widely accepted as Anhui Province, signed a was infamous for its poverty. remains in the ownership a milestone in the economic Grain output increased to of the rural collective. It also opening up. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 30

All members of astronaut brigade of the Chinese PLA

A video grab taken at the Beijing Space Command and Control Center on , China’s first space traveler, poses for picture at a spacecraft Septemper 27, 2008 shows Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang working outside the orbit module of the VII spacecraft during his spacewalk

All members of konaut brigade was rated China’s space exploration making outstanding as the “most beautiful career. contributions to China’s astronaut brigade strivers” in 2019. Since They have made 14 manned space program. of the Chinese PLA its establishment in 1998 flights into space cruising Many of them are fa- with 14 members, PLA tai- for 68 days. They have won mous in China, for example The Chinese People’s konaut brigade has scored comprehensive victories Yang Liwei, China’s first Liberation Army (PLA) tai- huge achievement in in six manned missions, space traveler. 31 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Heroes Since 2012

Mao Xianglin Wang Jicai and Wang Shihua Aireti Mamuti Zhangchao

Zhang Guimei Zhang Fuqing Li Baoguo Du Fuguo

Zou Bihua Zhoigar and Yangzom Yang Zhong Nanshan Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 32 2012-2021

Huang Danian Huang WenXiu Liao Junbo Fan Jinshi

Hero divers of the Jiaolong deep-sea manned submersible Heroes of the CSIC 760 Research Institute rescuing state property in disaster

Hard-boned Sixth Company of the 74th Army Group of the People’s Liberation Army Space exploration teams 33 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Zhang Guimei

Zhang Guimei, gave a pre talk to her students to take the college entrance examination on June 7, 2021 Zhang Guimei with her students

Zhang Guimei ter for homeless children in In 2007, Zhang was Huaping county allocated Huaping county, she found selected as a representative one million yuan, respectively, Born in northeast many of the girls who lived at of the 17th CPC National to construct a school, and China’s the center were abandoned Congress, and the local gov- the Huaping High School for Province in 1957, Zhang by their parents. She also no- ernment issued a special Girls was officially opened in Guimei is a teacher and the ticed many girls in the region, grant for her to purchase September 2008. principal of Huaping Girls especially from poor families, some new clothes before she In the past 13 years, High School in Lijiang City, had little chance of getting went to attend the meetings Zhang has helped more Province. She is education. in Beijing. Instead she used than 1,600 girls achieve their well-known as she estab- These experiences in- the money to buy computers university dreams. Zhang has lished the first girls’ public spired Zhang to establish a for her students. changed the fates of these high school in China, which school for girls living in the At the meeting, a reporter girls by enabling them to pur- does not charge tuition mountainous areas, mainly noticed Zhang was wearing sue education and preventing fees, but also for achieves those who are unable to jeans with holes in them, poverty from being passed high percentage of gradu- continue their studies after and reported her story. Since on to the next generation. ates who enter universities. completing the nine-year then, Zhang and her dream She has been honored In 2001, Zhang, then compulsory education. She to start a school for girls have with the title “Role Model of a teacher of local middle was determined to make sure drawn attention from the the Times” in recognition of school, was appointed the the school did not charge public. Consequently, gov- her dedication to education part-time president of a cen- tuition fees. ernments of Lijiang city and for girls. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 34

Zhong Nanshan

President , also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Zhong Nanshan Central Committee, presents the Medal of the Republic to Zhong Nanshan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 8, 2020

Zhong Nanshan he graduated from Beijing and became president of the as a leading scientist. He was University Medical School Chinese Medical Association voted one of China’s top 10 Dr Zhong Nanshan is a and worked at the School. in 2005. He is currently the scientists in 2010. He is also renowned During 1979 to 1981, he director of the Guangzhou one of the most respect- expert in China. He received studied at the Edinburgh Institute of Respiratory able and trusted figures the Medal of the Republic, University and London Diseases and editor-in-chief during China’s battle against the highest state honor, for University as a fellow scholar, of the Journal of Thoracic COVID-19 and serves as an his outstanding contribution majoring in research of - Disease. adviser to the government in to fighting the COVID-19 epi- peroxia and hypoxia and their Zhong discovered the managing the crisis. demic in 2020. impacts on pulmonary blood SARS back in Zhong Nanshan was Dr Zhong was born in circulation. Zhong became 2003 and played an impor- named by Time as one of the October 1936 in Nanjing, president of the Chinese tant role in the country’s 100 most influential people Jiangsu Province. In 1960, Thoracic Society in 2000 fight against the epidemic in the world in 2020. 35 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Huang Wenxiu

Huang Wenxiu helps villagers Huang Wenxiu People mourn Huang Wenxiu at her funeral to do farm work

Huang Wenxiu hometown, Baise City, where was trapped in a mountain Xi Jinping, General she served as an official with area by a flash flood while on Secretary of the Communist Huang Wenxiu, the late the publicity department her way back to the village Party of China (CPC) Central first secretary of Baini Village of the Baise CPC Municipal after visiting her sick father in Committee, praised that in South China’s Guangxi Committee. another county on the week- Huang gave up opportuni- Zhuang Autonomous Region, She was appointed as end. She was found dead the ties to work in big cities and was awarded as a National the first secretary of Baini next day at the age of 30. returned to her hometown Excellent Communist Party village to help with poverty Her death drew huge at- after she graduated from Member for her poverty al- alleviation in March 2018. tention among the locals and university, and devoted her- leviation efforts by the CPC She dedicated herself to her netizens on social media, who self to the poverty-alleviation Central Committee in 2019. career, working day and night mourned for her because she work in her hometown. Xi After graduating from to help villagers increase their devoted her life to the well- encouraged Party members, Beijing Normal University in income and escape poverty. being of others instead of her officials and young people to 2016, Huang returned to her On June 16, 2018, Huang own. learn from Huang. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 36

Fan Jinshi

China’s President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, takes a photo with Fan Jinshi after Fan Jinshi at Mogao Grottoes presenting her national medal on September 29, 2019 in Beijing

Fan Jinshi ing the Dunhuang Grottoes treasures in Dunhuang but Convention and Exhibition as well as disseminating also to introduce them to the Center on October 3, and Fan Jinshi, born in 1938 Dunhuang culture. Fan pio- world. she was also listed as a in Beijing, is the president neered and promoted the Fan has been awarded recommended candidate of Dunhuang Academy and nationwide booking system the honorary title of “National for the “The Most Beautiful spent more than five decades of traveling in Dunhuang. Advanced Laborer”, and in Striver”. In addition, Fan has in cultural relic research in She also compiled an 2008, she was honored as received the national honor the northwestern historic Archaeological Report on one of the ten distinguished of “Outstanding Contributor city, earning the moniker “The Grottoes 266 to 275 at alumni of Peking University, to the Cultural Heritage Daughter of Dunhuang”. Mogao Grottoes, authored and in 2018, she earned the Preservation” for her sub- After graduating from Interpretations of Dunhuang, title of “Reform Pioneer”. This stantial contribution to the Peking University in 1963, and advanced the “Digital year, Fan won the “Award permanent preservation Fan was dispatched to work Dunhuang” project, thus ex- for Positive Energy” at the and sustainable utilization in Dunhuang. Since then, Fan erting her life-long efforts not ceremony of “Lui Che-Woo of the Mogao Grottoes in began studying and protect- only to save the invaluable Prize” held in Dunhuang. 37 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Zhoigar and Yangzom

Zhoigar and Yangzom receive the title of Role Model of Zhoigar and Yangzom the Times on October 16, 2018

Zhoigar and terms of population, which Zhoigar and Yangzom also encouraged them to sits at the southern foot of wrote a letter to Xi while set down roots in the border Yangzom the Himalayas, where steep the 19th National Congress area, safeguard the Chinese Zhoigar and Yangzom, slopes and rugged paths of the Communist Party of territory and develop their two women from a herding make access difficult. China (CPC) was in session in hometown. family in Southwest China’s For decades, it was called Beijing. They told Xi their ex- With the staunch Tibet autonomous region, a “three-people township,” periences in safeguarding the support of the central gov- were awarded with the title for only Sangye, his daugh- border area and the develop- ernment, the per capita net “Role Model of the Times” in ters Zhoigar and Yangzom ment of their township over income of Yumai registered recognition of their loyalty and their families lived there, the years. 34,012 yuan ($5,312) in and contributions to safe- tenaciously safeguarding In his reply, Xi acknowl- 2020, 68 times that of 1991. guard the border area. the national border. Among edged their efforts to The “three-people town- With their father Sangye, their activities is keeping an safeguard the territory, and ship” has now more than this family is based in Yumai, eye out along the border and thanked them for the loyalty 200 residents in 67 families, China’s smallest town in reporting suspicious activities and contributions they have becoming a well-off and like possible smugglers. made in the border area. He beautiful place. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 38

Aireti Mamuti

Aireti Mamuti works with his colleague (left) Aireti Mamuti’s wife mourns before Aireti Mamuti’s statue

Aireti Mamuti Northwest China’s Xinjiang Mamuti died in September safeguarding social stability Uyghur Autonomous 2016 when searching for and security. By giving full Aireti Mamuti, former Region, was awarded with A-class fugitives. He was of his counter-terrorism deputy director of the pub- the title of “The people’s killed by a suicide bomber. combat experience, he led lic security bureau of Pishan hero”. For 27 years, he had been the police to successfully county, Hotan Prefecture in Born in October, 1969, fighting on the frontline for solve a series of cases. 39 Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History

Teams of Chang’e, Shenzhou and Beidou programs Space exploration teams

Aerospace science and technology personnel were work at the Photo taken by the rover -2 (Jade Rabbit-2) on January Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center, on October 9, 2020 11, 2019 shows the lander of the Chang’e-4 probe

Teams of Chang’e, space exploration. And they around 2024. In this April, navigation satellite sys- were credited as “The Most the successful launch of tems. Shenzhou and Beautiful Striver”. the Tianhe module marks The average age of Beidou programs China achieved huge that China’s space station Chang’e mission team progress in space explo- construction has entered and Shenzhou mission Space exploration ration. In 2020, China the full implementation team was 33 while Beidou teams launched the Chang’e-5 stage, which lays a solid team’s mean age was 35. probe, successfully bring- foundation for the follow- China’s President Xi Jinping Researchers behind the ing home 1,731 grams of up tasks. China’s BeiDou called young people “the Chang’e lunar exploration moon samples. It aims to Navigation Satellite System most dynamic and creative program, Shenzhou series launch the Chang’e 6 probe was finished after decades group of our society” and of spacecraft and Beidou to collect samples in the of planning and construc- said that they should “stand Satellite Navigation System South Pole-Aitken Basin on tion, and China possesses at the forefront of innova- contributed greatly in the far side of the moon one of the world’s major tion and creation”. Special Issue Dedicated to the Heroes of the CPC’s 100-year History 40

Warriors in white suits: front-line medical workers fighting against the COVID-19

Medical workers administer COVID-19 vaccine doses to residents at a Sixteen medical workers are sworn into the CPC vaccination site in , north China’s Hebei Province, May 28, 2021 in Guangxi, March 13, 2020

Warriors in white millions of medical workers They built a Great Wall against one is born a hero, yet their grappled with the epidemic the virus, bringing light and selflessness made them suits: front-line at the front line across hope to the nation at a dark fearless. These people, with medical workers China. time. the nobility, kindness, and fighting against Showing professional de- They endured tremen- devotion that are intrinsic to votion and a deep respect for dous fatigue and stress, and their profession, have etched the COVID-19 life, many of them risked their paid a heavy price. More an unforgettable chapter in Facing with the sudden own lives, racing against time than 2,000 medical workers the history of the Chinese na- outbreak of the novel cor- and working round the clock were infected, and scores tion and in the hearts of the anavirus disease (COVID-19), to try to save every patient. died in the line of duty. No Chinese people. After 100 years of growth, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has developed into the world’s largest ruling party embracing Marxism. With more than 91 million members, it has gained the trust and support from the nation’s 1.4 billion people. In keeping with its historical mandate, the CPC forms the core leadership ushering in China’s rejuvenation. United and guided by the CPC, the Chinese people have come a long way from poverty to moderate prosperity. They will continue to create miracles as they move forward.

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