Jiang Hangang, 42, a former Chinese peacekeeper in Liberia, moved the whole nation after his heroic deeds recently made headlines on every channel in China.

Jiang led 274 fellow engineers to fulfill peacekeeping tasks in Liberia in April 2008. Despite suffering great pain throughout the eight-month mission, Jiang, who was later diagnosed with gastric cancer, directed the Chinese peacekeeping contingent to upgrade and rush-repair a total of 448 km of road and build five bridges. He also created a road-building method suited to Liberia's bad climatic conditions. This was later named after him and was adopted by peacekeepers from other countries in the war-torn African country.

Jiang's dedication to work won high praise from officials with the UN Mission in Liberia and the president of Liberia. All the Chinese engineers were awarded first-class peace medal by the UN upon completion of their mission in December 2008.

After returning to China, Jiang had 60 percent of his stomach removed in January 2009 and received six rounds of chemotherapy. He returned to work in May 2009 and is serving as commander of an engineering regiment in the Beijing Military Area Command.