Huang Wenxiu, a former village official in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, was posthumously awarded the title Role Model of the Times.

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, which presented the award, publicized Huang's outstanding deeds on July 1.

After graduating from Beijing Normal University in 2016, Huang returned to her hometown Baise. She served as an official with the Publicity Department of the Baise Municipal Committee of the CPC.

Since March 2018, she had been leading the poverty alleviation efforts in Baini Village as the village's Party chief. A total of 418 villagers were lifted out poverty thanks to her efforts. Huang died in a rain-triggered flash flood while traveling on June 17. She was 30.