When we die for the people; it is a worthy death.

















1 Jiao Yulu (August 16, 1922 – May 14, 1964) was from a peasant family in Shandong Province.  At the age of 16,
he joined the Red Gun Society, a local anti-Japanese militia, but was captured in 1942 and was beaten to the
point where he could not walk. He was sent to Jinan and then to Japanese-occupied Manchuria where he was
forced to work in a coal mine. He escaped and returned to his hometown. He could not work there, and took
his wife and children to Jiangsu Province where he worked as a hired labourer. When the new Fourth Army
liberated his hometown in 1945, he returned, joining the Communist Party in 1946.  After 1948, he was
assigned to carry out bandit suppression and land reform, and in 1954 he was assigned to work in a machinery
factory in Henan. He took a leadership role in his county Party Committee, and resisted the “communist” wind
of extravagance and boastfulness pushed by Liu Shaoqi during the Great Leap Forward to exaggerate crop
harvests so as to extort grain from the peasants. He also promoted the planting of saline-alkali and wind-sand
resistant paulownia and took steps to prevent water-logging and floods.  He always lived simply and rejected
gifts and presents. In 1964, he was diagnosed with an incurable illness and died soon after.