Jiang Min with Gong Xixiang (right), president of China Today, and Zhou Youma (left), secretary general of China Today Advisory Committee.	CWI President Hu Qili (middle), Vice President Xu Dexin (left) and Secretary General Ai Baiying, discussing work.	CWI Vice President Lu Ping (left) and Party Secretary Hong Niuyi (right), with Ren Rongrong.

THE 14th Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award has bestowed a special prize to Jiang Min, a Sichuan policewoman who remained at her post after the May 12 earthquake killed 10 members of her family, including her parents and two-year-old daughter. Seeing the many mothers and children in need of urgent help, she gave up a chance to return home to have a last look at her family, and joined the rescue work without hesitation. The agony of losing those she loved most, coupled with overwork through five sleepless days and nights, caused Jiang Min to collapse several times at the rescue site. When her story came out in the media, people lauded her as “China’s strongest policewoman.”

The Soong Ching Ling Camphor Tree Award was established in 1985 by the China Welfare Institute (CWI) to honor people committed to the welfare of women and children, a cause Mme. Soong worked for throughout her life.