Yang Gui, former secretary of Linxian County Committee of Henan Province, known as the chief designer of Hongqi Canal, died at 0: 48 on April 10. During his tenure as secretary of Linxian County Party Committee, he presided over the construction of the world-famous artificial Tianhe-Hongqi Canal.

Yang Gui said:

"I have always believed in one sentence: the things that the masses care most about are major events. Linxian County has been short of water for generations. If you don't solve this problem, you will be sorry for the people in the old district! "

1954, 26-year-old Yang Gui was appointed as the secretary of Linxian County Party Committee. 1February, 960, the hongqi canal project started. In the case of backward technical means and difficult construction conditions, Yang Gui led the people of Linxian County to fight on the precipice of Taihang Mountain and in the dangerous beach canyon. Without funds and materials, they can't learn by doing technology, and despite the difficulties, they have made progress. Relying on the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, they persisted in hard struggle for 10 years, digging holes on every mountain. By July, the supporting works of 1969 branch canal were all completed, and 1250 hill leveling, 15 1 aqueduct erection, 2 1 1 tunnel drilling and 12408 building were completed. According to calculation, if the excavated earth-rock barrier is built into a wall with a width of 2 meters and a height of 3 meters, it can run through the north and south of the motherland, bypass Beijing and connect Guangzhou and Harbin. ?