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Chinese President Honors Elite Military Staff
Chinese President Honors Elite Military Staff
China's Central Military Commission issued two circulars signed by President Jiang Zemin to acknowledge the first-class awards given to four individuals and an honorable title given to the "August 1st" Five Soldiery Sports Troop.
Among the four honored military staff, Cheng Tianmin is a professor with the Antiatomic Medical Section and the Combined Injury Research Institute of the No. 3 Military University. He is also an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
His achievements have won him a series of national technological progress awards and educational achievement awards.
Ye Jin, a swimming coach with the Sports Team of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army, was honored for having trained five world-class Chinese swimmers.
Xu Zhigong, dean of the Political Theory Research Office of the University of National Defense, is an author and chief-editor of 15 theoretical works and over 20 educational materials on political theory. His lectures on Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory have reached an audience of over 150,000.
Liu Zhihong, a doctor at the Nephritic Disease Department of the Nanjing Hospital of the Nanjing Military Area Command, is a winner of several national technological progress awards and military technological progress rewards.
The "August 1st" Five Soldiery Sports Troop was honored by Jiang, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission, as the "Heroic Military Five Soldiery Sport Troop."
The troop has taken up special commissions to demonstrate the image and strength of the Chinese Army in international military sports events since 1980. It has won 42 world championships and broke 63 world records.
In the circular, Jiang asked military and armed police troops around the country to learn from the spirit of the heroic troop.
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