BEIJING: China has awarded the title “modle of the times” to Laqini Bayika, a Tajik herdsman in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who devoted his life to patrolling China’s northwestern border and died on January 4 while trying to rescue a child who had fallen into an ice hole.
The decision was made by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC).
Bayika, who died at the age of 41 and was called the “Eagle of Pamir,” was a CPC member and also a deputy of the National People’s Congress.
He joined the military in 2001 and served for two years.
In 2003, he then followed in the footsteps of his grandfather and father to serve as a patrol guide for frontier military forces at the Khunjerab Pass on the border region, which is adjacent to the Wakhan Corridor, a key zone for China’s counter-terrorism mission that links China and Afghanistan.
During his service, he risked his life to rescue soldiers of the frontier forces on many occasions, according to media.
To honor the heroic patrolman, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee called on the whole of society, especially the people and CPC members in the border regions, to follow the example of Bayika.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
