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Qiu Shaoyun was born in 1931 in a rural village in Tongliang district, Sichuan Province. He joined the People's Liberation Army
in 1949 and earned recognition in the campaigns that were waged to
exterminate bandits. Early 1951, Qiu signed up with the Chinese
Volunteer Army taking part in the Korean War. In October 1952, Qiu died
a martyr's death. In the struggle for Hill 391, Qiu and his unit mates
crawled closer to the enemy position, using hay and twigs as natural
camouflage. The enemy used incendary bombs, dropped by airplanes, to
try and smoke out the Chinese units. Qiu got trapped in the ensuing
brush fire and in order to not betray the 500 other Chinese soldiers
taking part in the assault, he did not move and burned to death.
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In 1953, Qiu was made a Hero First Class. The
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, moreover, made him a "Hero of
the DPRK" and awarded him two medals.
Sources:
Zhiyuanjun yingxiong zhuan sanji [Accounts of Heroes of the Volunteer Army vol. III] (Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1956) [in Chinese]
Shao Wu et al. (eds), Gongheguo qunyingpu [Register of heroes of the Republic] (Beijing: Zhongguo shaonian ertong chubanshe, 2003) [in Chinese]
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