On December 8, the farewell ceremony for the remains of anti-drug hero Comrade Cai Xiaodong was held. (Courtesy of Yunnan Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station)
On the morning of December 8, the farewell ceremony for the remains of Comrade Cai Xiaodong, a narcotics policeman, was held at splashing water square in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and people from all walks of life came to the scene to mourn. Before cai Xiaodong's death, he was the deputy captain of the law enforcement investigation team of the Xishuangbanna Border Management Detachment of the Yunnan Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station. On December 4, during the arrest of drug dealers on the front line of the border, he fought with gun dealers to the death, was seriously injured, and died after rescue.
At 10:30 a.m. on the 8th, the farewell ceremony for the remains began, and all the personnel held a moment of silence to pay tribute to Comrade Cai Xiaodong. Sun Hongbin, secretary of the party committee and director of the Yunnan Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station, recalled Cai Xiaodong's heroic deeds. He said that Cai Xiaodong completed various heavy tasks with a high sense of responsibility and mission, and successively participated in the investigation of 247 drug cases, participated in 358 anti-drug special operations, seized 1.6 tons of various drugs, and arrested 249 criminal suspects. Because of his outstanding work achievements, he has successively won the first class, second class merit, and third class merit of the individual, and has won many commendations, and won the honors of outstanding police officer, advanced individual in law enforcement duty, and anti-drug pacesetter at Yunling Guomen.
On December 8, the police attended the farewell ceremony of the body of anti-drug police officer Cai Xiaodong in Jinghong City. Xinhua News Agency
Qu Yunhai, member of the party leading group and deputy director of the State Immigration Administration, pointed out that Cai Xiaodong has been fighting for a long time in the frontline of anti-narcotics work with arduous and dangerous tasks, facing the anti-narcotics task of nine deaths and a lifetime, and facing the extremely vicious drug traffickers, he has been brave and fearless, charged ahead, cracked one major drug case after another, and made major contributions to protecting the people's health and safeguarding social tranquility.
On December 8, the farewell ceremony for the remains of anti-drug hero Comrade Cai Xiaodong was held. Xinhua News Agency
The mourning music was low, and the farewell personnel mourned and bowed to the body of Comrade Cai Xiaodong in silence and presented flowers.
"Mourning for the martyrs, paying tribute to the heroes", "Heroic policeman Cai Xiaodong, all the way well" "Tribute to the anti-drug hero Cai Xiaodong all the way, may the world be drug-free"... In Splash Square, many people spontaneously raised banners to express their mourning.
On December 8, the crowd attended a farewell ceremony for the body of anti-narcotics police officer Cai Xiaodong. Xinhua News Agency
After the memorial ceremony, escorted by a police car, the hearse carrying the body of Comrade Cai Xiaodong slowly drove to the funeral home, and people had tears in their eyes and did not want to leave for a long time...
Reporter: Wang Yan, Zi Qiang
Editor: Liu Yuanyuan