Please allow me to salute with my left hand: Ding Xiaobing, China's Pavlo Coraghin

Author: Hao Jingtang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Ding Xiaobing, born in September 1965, joined the army in October 1983. In a major military operation in 1984, he heroically injured himself and lost his right arm. In June 1985, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League awarded him 101 gold medals titled "Outstanding Youth on the Frontier of the Nation." Over the past 20 years, Ding Xiaobing has been honored with the title of "National Self-Strengthening Model" by the Ministry of Personnel and the China Disabled Persons' Federation, recognized as a "Model of Loving the People and Supporting the Government" by the General Headquarters of the People's Armed Police and the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and Government, and named an advanced individual in learning and implementing the Important Thought of the "Three Represents," an outstanding Communist Party member, and a model cadre by the General Headquarters of the People's Armed Police. In May 2005, he was honorably elected as one of the "Top 10 Loyal Guards of the Chinese People's Armed Police" for the eighth term. Statistics show that Ding Xiaobing has received 288 medals and certificates. Before the Spring Festival in 2006, during a visit to the troops by General Secretary Hu Jintao, he personally opened a webpage and carefully read a special report on Ding Xiaobing, calling on all officers and soldiers of the army and the People's Armed Police to learn from Comrade Ding Xiaobing.