Recognizing the heroes of 70 years of the PRC
Raidi, born August 1938
Raidi has long held an important leading position in the Party committee of the Tibet autonomous region. Over the past few decades, he has made considerable efforts to improve the region's development, harmony and stability, helped increase people's livelihoods, and won the love and respect of the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet.
Gu Fangzhou, medical scientist, born June 1926, died January 2019
Former CAMS and PUMC president Gu Fangzhou developed China's first polio vaccines, perhaps most notablty the Sugar Ball attenuated oral vaccine first created in 1959. A countrywide immunization strategy eradicated the indigenous polio strain by 1994. Poliomyelitis has since been effectively controlled, with China being declared polio-free by the World Health Organization in October 2000.
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