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Excerpts from report by Xinhua news agency by Xinhua reporter Sun Maoqing and `Renmin Ribao' reporter Jia Chaoquan
Beijing, 3rd September: A meeting to posthumously confer the honorary title of "flood combating hero" on martyr Gao Jiancheng was solemnly held on 3rd September in Beijing. Zhang Wannian, member of the CCP {Chinese Communist Party} Central Committee Political Bureau and vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Yu Yongbo, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the People's Liberation Army {PLA} General Political Department, attended the meeting.
Zhang Wannian spoke at the meeting. He said that since the summer, the army and the armed police units have resolutely enforced Chairman Jiang's order and have, in line with the arrangements of the CCP Central Committee, the State Council, and the Central Military Commission, plunged themselves into the anti-flood struggle, in which many heroic collectives and heroic models emerge.
Comrade Gao Jiancheng, a political instructor of an anti-aircraft regiment of the air force, composed a heroic epic song with his life at the dangerous moment of a dyke's sudden bursting. When Chairman Jiang visited anti-flood front line,...