Recognizing the heroes of 70 years of the PRC


Gao Mingxuan, jurist, born May 1928
Gao is a jurist, legal educator, and the pioneer of criminal law in New China. As the only scholar who fully participated in the formulation of the People's Republic of China's first criminal code, as well its first doctoral supervisor of criminal law, he has made great contributions to criminal law research in the country.

Gao Derong, prefecture leader, born March 1954
Gao is former deputy director of the local people's congress standing committee in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture, Southwest China's Yunnan province, and a member of the Dulong ethnic minority group. He devoted himself to infrastructure construction, industry development and poverty-alleviation work in the Dulong river village. During his tenure, the first road to connect the small village in the mountains with the outside world was built, greatly improving villagers' lives. He was honored as a National Excellent Communist Party Member and an Exemplary Individual of Ethnic Unity and Progress.
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