Winners of the national honorary title of “people's role model”
Wang Jicai, born April 1960, died July 2018: Wang started guarding on Kaishan Island in 1986 with his wife. In the next 32 years, the couple guarded the island resolutely in spite of countless difficulties, repaired barracks and built sentry post with their own hands, patrolled the island, maintained navigation marks and wrote logs every day, and fought against smugglers and stowaways, dedicating their most beautiful years to national defense and coast defense.
Zhu Yanfu, born July 1933: Zhu joined the army in 1947 and took part in hundreds of battles. He was injured ten times and lost his left eye and part of the limbs in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, being awarded combat honors three times. After he left the army, Mr. Zhu spent his pension on building libraries and operating night schools to help farmers to be educated. He led the villagers to develop local economy, turning a poor and backward village into an affluent one with lush mountains and lucid waters. Besides these works, Zhu also completed two full-length autobiographical novels in seven years.
