A Salute to the Brave

Wang Shulin

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-01-18 08:00

I'm about to retire so I have to work even harder and pass down my experience to the young people.

At Wang's office desk, there is a countdown table. At 58, Wang was to retire soon so he counted every day to calculate how much time was left to make contributions to the country.

In 2001, Wang had heart surgery and was told to be careful at work, but he never worried. "I'm going to retire and I have to do as much as I can before I leave," he once said.

Tao Junsheng, deputy director of the equipment and finance bureau, said: "We can always rest assured if the work is handed over to Wang."

With his expertise, in 2004 and 2005 Wang helped cut costs by up to 260 million yuan ($38 million) when he was responsible for the group-purchasing of 20,000 police cars for the poorer central and western regions of China.

Wang was responsible for most of the equipment purchases for China's peacekeeping force in Haiti.