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Model judge granted posthumous honor

Hu Guoyun, a senior judge in Jiangxi province, was posthumously awarded the title of "national model judge". The decision to award Hu was jointly made by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Supreme People's Court, the SPC said in a statement on Monday. Hu started working as a court staff member in 1987 and was a tribunal chief and a member of the judicial committee at the province's High People's Court. He was still serving when he died on May 6. Authorities praised Hu's loyalty, diligence and devotion to work and called on Chinese judicial personnel to learn from his sense of responsibility, improve their work, always exercise their judicial powers for the people and ensure the impartial administration of justice.