China awards medals to national heroes
Chinese President Xi Jinping presented national medals of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to eight awardees in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday morning.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, helped the awardees wear the medals and shook hands with them.
The Medals of the Republic were presented to eight individuals who made great contributions to the construction and development of the People's Republic of China.
The honorees are the deceased nuclear physicist Yu Min, longtime national legislator Shen Jilan, aerospace engineer Sun Jiadong, war veterans Li Yannian and Zhang Fuqing, "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping, nuclear submarine designer Huang Xuhua, and Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou, who led the discovery of malaria drug artemisinin.
Three types of awards, the Medal of the Republic, the Friendship Medal, and the national honorary titles, were presented at the ceremony.
On September 17, Xi signed a presidential decree to award 42 Chinese and foreign individuals national medals and honorary titles, as the PRC prepares to celebrate its 70th anniversary.
This is the first ceremony where the national medals and honorary titles were presented together since the promulgation of the current Constitution.
(Source: Reuters)
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