China awards late village official with posthumous title

Huang Wenxiu, a former village official in south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, was posthumously awarded the title "role model of the times."

The title was given by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, which on Monday publicized the outstanding deeds of Huang to the public.

After graduating from Beijing Normal University in 2016, Huang returned to her hometown Baise, Guangxi, and served as an official with the publicity department of the Baise municipal committee of the CPC.

Since March 2018, she had been leading the poverty alleviation efforts in Baini village, Leye county, as the village's Party chief. A total of 418 villagers were lifted out poverty thanks to her efforts. Huang died in a rain-triggered flash flood at the age of 30 on June 17, 2019, while returning from the city of Baise to Leye county.