PresidentXisignsordertoawardfourCOVID19fighters
From: Shenzhen Daily
Updated: 2020-08-12 09:08
(L-R) Zhong Nanshan, Zhang Boli, Zhang Dingyu and Chen Wei. CGTN
President Xi Jinping yesterday signed a presidential order to award four persons the national medal and honorary title for their outstanding contribution to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.
The Medal of the Republic was conferred on renowned respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan.
The national honorary title, “the People’s Hero,” was conferred on Zhang Boli, a traditional Chinese medicine expert who presided over the research of the COVID-19 treatment scheme combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan’s designated coronavirus-treating Jinyintan Hospital, and Chen Wei, a military medical scientist who made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research and development of vaccine and protective medicine.