The smiling face of "Good Brother Yong" - remembering Li Yong, a police officer of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau

Source: Economic Daily

Standing next to the police car at the entrance of the highway, Li Yong, wearing a police uniform, was smiling and saluting.

Because of the smile that often hangs on his face, because of his helpful figure in the rain and snow, because he uses the "traffic police Li Yong" Weibo to answer questions for netizens, Li Yong is called "Good Yong Brother" by Qingdao citizens. However, the smiling face of "Good Brother Yong" was frozen in the early morning of October 3, 2021, when Li Yong, the commander of the second squadron of the Tongsan Expressway Brigade, was patrolling the highway in the jurisdiction and interrogating the suspected drunk drivers according to law, in order to rescue the driver who crossed from the gap in the guardrail to the outside of the guardrail, Li Yong unfortunately fell under the highway overpass, and after rescue was ineffective, he died heroically, only 55 years old.

When the law enforcement object encounters danger, Li Yong disregards his own safety, lends a helping hand, leaves the hope of life to the other party, and keeps the danger to himself - the colleagues who have worked with Li Yong are shocked and sad, but they are not surprised. "He always has someone else in his heart, and he smiles at everyone." This is the unanimous evaluation of Li Yong by the comrades-in-arms of the Three Highway Brigade.

But Li Yong's smiling face also has a time when the board comes down. He dared to be more truthful and not afraid of offending people, and the law enforcement targets or business owners wanted to invite guests and gifts to approach Li Yong, but they were all strictly rejected by him. A few people who had been punished by Li Yong threatened him and followed him, and Li Yong was not afraid, and in the end, the punished people could only return in vain. Since joining the police, Li Yong has investigated and dealt with more than 50,000 illegal acts of various kinds, and has not handled a single personal case. "If you obey the rules and the law, I am at your service; if you break the law, I must enforce the law impartially," Li Yong's motto stated his original intention of practicing law.

Giving a traffic safety class is the time when Li Yong has the most smiling faces. Kindergarten children, construction site workers, and auxiliary police officers who have just joined the work are all his teaching targets. Since joining the police, Li Yong has mainly used multimedia methods, giving more than 400 lectures and receiving more than 140,000 education sessions. After Li Yong's sacrifice, when the comrades opened Li Yong's laptop, the courseware in the folder was arranged in an orderly manner: summer safety courseware of Oilfang Primary School, highway safety courseware, training courseware for auxiliary police officers, training courseware for a factory... Just the day before the sacrifice, Li Yong had just added new information to the courseware.

I know that Li Yong's Weibo will not be updated again, but in just one day after his sacrifice, the fans of "Traffic Police Li Yong" Weibo have increased by 8,000 people, and netizens have left messages to express their thoughts about him and remember the heroes who have passed away.

"Recently, the smiling face of 'Good Brother Chung' has been dangling in front of my eyes." Tian Pengfei, who initiated the establishment of the "Qingdao Good Driver" public welfare organization because of his exchanges with Li Yong, said of Li Yonglai with deep affection: "So many people remember him, I understand his often saying, 'Only by putting the masses in their hearts, the masses will remember us in their hearts'. (Economic Daily reporter Liu Cheng)