Judicial officer who died on job given award
By Liang Shuang | China Daily | Updated: 2023-12-19 10:16
Bao Weizhong, a judicial worker who spent more than 20 years in a local court and nearly a decade solving difficulties enforcing the court's verdicts, was posthumously awarded the "Role Model of the Time" title by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the department revealed on Monday.
Bao, who was 45 when he died suddenly at work in October 2021, was the bureau chief in charge of carrying out the verdict at the People's Court of Cangyuan Va Autonomous County in Lincang, Yunnan province.
A member of the Va ethnic group, Bao joined the court in 1997 and became the enforcement bureau chief in 2015. During his career, he carried out court decisions in more than 800 cases, resolved 650 long-pending cases in which decisions were considered hard to implement, and issued more than 900,000 yuan ($126,000) of judicial relief funds for people involved in the process, Guangming Daily reported.
In one case in 2020, Bao went to a village to handle compensation in an intentional injury case. Due to his car breaking down halfway there, he arrived at the village at 2 pm.
Without having lunch, he went straight to villagers' houses, and found that the applicant desperately needed the money for medical expenses, but the person subject to the ruling was not financially capable of paying. After collecting a statement from the latter, Bao completed related documents so that the applicant could access a judicial relief fund, and finished the work five hours later with an empty stomach.
Bao suffered a sudden illness at work on Oct 21, 2021, and died two days later. In September last year, he was posthumously named a "Role Model Judge" by the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
The Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee said that Bao had long worked at the grassroots level and contributed to the stability of ethnic regions with his loyalty to the Party and impartiality in judicial work. He also popularized and explained the law to villagers.
The department called Party members and judicial workers to learn from him, and promote the spirit of a law-based society in building China into a socialist modern country in all respects.
