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10 Outstanding Women Honored as National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetters by the ACWFMarch 10, 2022The All-China Women's Federation awarded 10 outstanding women the title of National March 8th Red-banner Pacesetter in advance of International Women's Day on March 8. The awardees are:
As a border guard of Jigen Township in Wuqia County, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Burumahan Maoleduo has spent more than 50 years patrolling the border. She walks at least 20 kilometers every day to patrol the borderline at an average altitude of over 4,000 meters. Starting from the 1960s, Burumahan has committed to marking the boundary by engraving the Chinese characters for China on over 100,000 mountain stones at the borderline.
Li Huanying, an expert on leprosy prevention and control, has devoted all her efforts to fighting the disease for over 60 years. Li implemented a special action plan that applied advanced foreign methods in the Chinese context to eliminate leprosy, making the disease that had been raging for thousands of years controllable and curable. She is still fighting on the front line in her 100s.
Over the past 20 years, Yin Jianmin has donated more than 24 million yuan to help with poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. Since 2014, Yin has helped farmers in poverty-stricken areas in Gansu Province improve their agricultural techniques, enable them to find jobs nearby. She has also established planting bases, helping local women get jobs at their doorsteps and increase their incomes.
Guan Xin has devoted herself to national defense for 23 years, and has long been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of information systems. Guan has made outstanding contributions to national defense education.
Hu Hailan has concentrated on the research of brain's higher functions and related diseases, and she has achieved a series of world-leading innovative research results in the field of systems neuroscience. Hu was awarded the 24th L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award in 2021.
Lu Yutong has been engaged for years in domestic supercomputing technology research. Lu has built a supercomputing multidisciplinary teaching system, and cultivated much-needed supercomputing professionals for the country. In 2019, Lu acted as the program chair of the ISC High Performance (ISC), Europe's most important conference and networking event for the high-performance computing community. She was the first program chair from China and the first woman to be the conference's program chair.
Lu Shengmei has been engaged in medical and health services in poverty-stricken areas for 53 years. Lu founded the first regular pediatrics department in Jiaxian County, Shaanxi Province, and has made outstanding contributions to promoting new delivery methods and scientific methods of raising children and implementing planned immunization for children. She has offered free medical services to more than 150,000 patients after retirement.
Yang Ning returned to Jiangmen Village, her hometown, to become a village official after graduating from the university in 2010. Yang led villagers to develop ecological agriculture, and established an e-commerce service center to help the villagers sell specialty agricultural products. She also established poverty-alleviation processing workshops and agricultural breeding bases. By 2020, all 326 people from 94 households in Jiangmen had been lifted out of poverty.
Gan Gongrong is the third daughter of Gan Zuchang (1905-1986, the late major general) and Gong Quanzhen (recipient of the honor of national moral model). Gan Gongrong passed on the revolutionary traditions of her family through concrete actions. She is keen on helping impoverished people and has established a foundation to help students and people in need. She has offered nearly 8,000 hours of volunteer services. She gave nearly 1,000 lectures for Party members and cadres all over the country, telling the stories of her father and other revolutionaries.
Wu Rongjin has explored teaching in the new era in her nearly 30 years of teaching, contributing to cultivating young successors and builders of the socialist cause who are equipped with moral grounding, intellectual and physical ability, aesthetic sensibility and work skills. Wu established China's first teenage narration team, and she has cultivated young tour guides for the Memorial for the Site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. She has also helped improve the education in underdeveloped areas of the country.
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