(Xinhua/Wang Ye)
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday awarded medals to recipients of national medals and national honorary titles, the state’s highest honors, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, conferred the highest state honors at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Veteran and war hero Huang Zongde, who received the Medal of the Republic, and Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank and former president of Brazil, who received the Friendship Medal, spoke at the ceremony.
Fifteen people received national medals and national honorary titles.
(Xinhua/Wang Ye)
(Xinhua/Yan Yan)
