Model Heroes of PLA
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China's top defense engineer Qian Qihu wins highest military honor
China's top defense engineering expert Qian Qihu has been awarded this year the August 1 Medal – the highest military honor in the country – for his outstanding contributions to national defense infrastructure.
2022-08-01 17:47 -
Mai Xiande: People's combat hero of iron will
On September 17, 2019, Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a presidential decree to confer national medals and national honorary titles of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on dozens of individuals, in which Mai Xiande was awarded the national honorary title of "the people's hero".
2022-07-29 17:02 -
PLA hero injured by mine is discharged
The Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University announced recently that a heroic soldier— Du Fuguo — who was injured during land mine clearing operations, had been discharged from the hospital after completing three years of therapy in Chongqing.
2022-07-28 11:06 -
August 1 Medalist Nie Haisheng: A space hero
Major General Nie Haisheng of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF) is in active service as a taikonaut and the third commander (unit chief) of the PLA Astronaut Corps (PLAAC).
2022-07-28 16:19 -
Navy pilot Zhang Chao, a hero pursuing to fly higher and farther
In 2016, China's Central Military Commission (CMC) posthumously bestowed Zhang Chao an honorary title and added him to the list of PLA model heroes whose portraits are widely hung in barracks of the PLA's company-level troop units in 2018.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Yang Yegong: Role-model commander faithfully fulfilling the mission
In 1995, in a major military exercise conducted at the sea area off southeast China, this new-type missile unit with operational capabilities staged a missile-launching drill as ordered and achieved a record of no missing in six launches. For commending his significant role in the drill, Yang was awarded a second-class merit citation.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Wang Wei: a heroic guardian of China's territorial airspace and waters
On April 1, 2001, a US military reconnaissance aircraft entered the airspace over China’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Wang Wei piloted his fighter upon order to track and monitor it. During the flight, the American aircraft, defying repeated warnings, suddenly changed direction and collided with Wang’s fighter jet. Failing to save the fighter jet, Wang had no choice but to parachute into the sea.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Li Xiangqun: working till last minute in fighting against flood
Li Xiangqun was born in a well-off family in Qiongshan district of Haikou, capital city of South China's Hainan province. In December 1996, he joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and served in the 9th Company of an infantry regiment under the former PLA Guangzhou Military Area Command (2nd Company, 1st Battalion of an infantry brigade of the 75th Group Army under the PLA Southern Theater Command today).
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Su Ning, a model cadre dedicated to defense modernization
Su Ning was born in Nanjing, the capital city of east China's Jiangsu province, in December 1953. He got enlisted in the army in February 1969 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in March 1973.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Lei Feng: Devote short life to endless cause of serving people
Lei Feng is one of the ten model heroes of the PLA whose portraits are widely hung in the clubs, military history halls, cultural activity centers and galleries in barracks of the PLA’s company-level troop units.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Qiu Shaoyun: A great fighter who sacrificed himself for the whole and final victory
Qiu Shaoyun was born in 1931 in Tongliang County, Sichuan Province. He joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army in December 1949 and in March 1951, joined the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPV) to fight in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. On the way to the front line with the troops, he braved the strafing and bombing of US military aircrafts and saved a Korean child from a burning house.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Huang Jiguang, a CPV member blocking the enemy's bullet hole with his body
Huang Jiguang was born in a poor farmer's family in 1931 in Zhongjiang County, Sichuan Province. He joined the Chinese People’s Volunteers in March 1951.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Dong Cunrui: accomplishing arduous tasks assigned by the Party is most honorable
The memorial park for martyr Dong Cunrui, a model member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and renowned national combat hero is located on the east bank of Yixun River in Longhua county, Hebei province.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
Zhang Side: an ordinary hero serving the people
Zhang Side was born in a poor rural family in Yilong county, Sichuan province in 1915. He joined the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and the Communist Youth League of China in 1933.
2022-07-29 08:00 -
First Chinese spacewalker ready for second space mission
China is all set to launch Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship on Saturday, with the country's first spacewalker Zhai Zhigang as one of the three crew members.
2021-10-15 19:49