Sun Yaoling (1928--2003), a native of Gengzhuang Village, Wuqiang County, joined the army in February 1945. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the War of Liberation, and the early days of the founding of New China, he successively served as a hygienist, a health squad leader, and a military doctor in the Wuqiang County Brigade And District Squad, the Ninth Company of the 20th Regiment of the 3rd Column, the 7th Brigade, the 20th Regiment of the 3rd Column, the 560th Regiment of the 187th Division of the 63rd Army, and the Headquarters Clinic of the 187th Division of the 63rd Army. He entered the Korean War from 1952 to 1953, and in August 1953 was awarded a battalion rank by Zhang Zhaoyuan, chief of staff of the 187th Division.
In October 1954, Sun Yaoling was transferred to the Daixian Central People's Hospital in Shanxi Province, where he successively served as a physician, chief of medical department, and vice president. In April 1963, he was transferred back to Wuqiang and successively served as deputy chief of the county health department, secretary of the party branch of Jieguan Hospital, and deputy director of the county health bureau. He retired in May 1989 and enjoyed the treatment of political life at the county level. Keeping in mind the mission, always maintaining the original intention, always listening to the call of the party, and when the motherland and the people need it, stand up and have no remorse. This is a brilliant portrayal of Sun Yaoling's life.
On February 2, 1960, at the water conservancy project site in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, 61 migrant workers suffered from food poisoning after dinner, foaming at the mouth, convulsing all over their bodies, and their lives were in danger. After consultation and laboratory testing, the special drug dimercapto propanol is urgently needed. But at that time, medical conditions were poor and medicines were scarce. After Shanxi Province reported to the Central Committee, Premier Zhou Enlai personally issued an order to send military aircraft to airdrop emergency medicines, ensuring the timely treatment of 61 migrant workers. At that time, many units and individuals inside and outside the province provided selfless assistance, reflecting the warmth of the big socialist family. The long-form reportage "For Sixty-One Class Brothers" was later selected for inclusion in secondary school textbooks and was widely disseminated as a film.
Sun Yaoling was working at the Dai County People's Hospital at that time. According to the instructions of the superiors, the DaiXian People's Hospital urgently organized a medical rescue team to go to Pinglu County to participate in the rescue. Sun Yaoling, who did not change careers, did not retreat from the army, and still maintained the style of a revolutionary soldier all his life did not hesitate in the slightest, took the initiative to ask for help, joined the medical rescue team, after more than a month of meticulous treatment and meticulous care, Sun Yaoling's medical rescue team treated 15 poisoned migrant workers, all of them were discharged from the hospital healthily.
Photo courtesy of: Sun Qingli
Source: "Wu Qiang Old Photo"