Chongqing veteran recalls his life with Lei Feng

Lei Feng (1940-1962) is a household icon in China who served the people wholeheartedly. Though a common PLA soldier, he helped countless people in his short 22-year life. Chairman Mao wrote him an inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" March 5, 1963, and established March 5 as "Lei Feng's Day."

Today, Chongqing Evening News will introduce a former comrade of Lei Feng in Qijiang County. He has been working at the grass-roots level silently since he retired from military service 49 years ago. Even his neighbors did not know that he was one of Lei Feng's former comrades.

Lei Feng (1940-1962) is a household icon in China who served the  people wholeheartedly.

Every time the old man recalls Lei Feng, he will climb to the top of the tower alone, saluting the place where he had fought.

His name is Hu Rongao and is 69 years old this year.

In Hu's notebook, a song called "Trouble Shooting Song of Automobile's Oil Line and Electric Circuit," was recorded, which he had been taught by Lei Feng.

Hu Rongao had been a mysterious man in the residential community of Datongyikuang under Chongqing Energy Group. She Dahua, a supervisor for the 67th mining workers dormitory building, where Hu lives, never understood why the old man would get up shortly after 5 am every day to clean all the floors of the building where he lives and wash the public toilets, and he even often goes to the street to help people in need. 　

"Really? I have been being his neighbor for more than 20 years and I never knew he was a comrade of Lei Feng," she said surprised.

69-year-old Hu Rongao comes from Luoxing Village, Qijiang County. He joined the army in March 1959 and then went to a transport squadron in Fushun City of Liaoning Province to enter service several months later.

He met Lei Feng there.