On September 15th , the 76th anniversary of Jinzhou Medical University (JZMU), the inauguration ceremony of the statue of Wu Xingmin, the first university president, was held in the lecture hall of the library. Wen Deliang, Secretary of the Party Committee, Ding Weiguang, President and Vice-secretary of the Party Committee, and other Standing Committee Members of the Party Committee attended the ceremony. Wu Xingmin’s wife, Yu Shuqin and her family, Cui Yanlei, Secretary of Taonan Municipal Committee, and Gao Xili, Mayor of Jilin, attended the ceremony via VCR. All teachers and students of JZMU attended the ceremony through a combination of online and offline.
Qu Wei, Vice-secretary of the Party Committee, introduced the life story of President Wu Xingmin, to let teachers and students value the contributions of former leaders of the university in their great achievements of people’s liberation and health care. Wen Deliang and Ding Weiguang jointly unveiled the statue of President Wu Xingmin.
Yu Shuqin shot a video in person to recall President Wu Xingmin’s glorious life and expressed warm congratulations on the 76th anniversary of JZMU on behalf of her family. In the end, she sent her best wishes to JZMU.
Life Story of Wu Xingmin
Wu Xingmin, a native of Nanjing Prefecture, Fujian Province, China, was born in Indonesia in 1917. He joined the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in 1932, the Communist Youth League of China in 1933 and the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1936. In 1933, he studied in the Military Medical School of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army (the predecessor of China Medical University) for two years. In October 1934, he marched 25,000 miles northward with the main force of the Red Army. On the way of the Long March, he worked as a nurse and pharmacist in the division health team, and then as a doctor in the Red Fourth Army. During the War of Liberation, he served as the Health Minister of Western Liaoning Military Region, Liaoning-Jilin Military Region and Northern Liaoning Military Region. From 1946 to 1948, he served as President of Liaoji Military Region Health School (the predecessor of Jinzhou Medical University). After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he served as Director of Department of Industrial Hygiene of the Northeast People’s Government, Hygiene Department director of the General Coal Mines Administration in the Central Ministry of Fuel Industry, President of Beijing People’s Hospital and Vice President of Beijing Friendship Hospital. He died in Zhangzhou on Apri 16th, 1994 at the age of 77.
