1On March 5th, 963, Mao Zedong's inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" was published in People's Daily, from which the anniversary came. Since then, March 5th every year has become the officially designated "Learn from Lei Feng Day", which led the whole China to set off an upsurge of learning from Lei Feng's spirit, and Lei Feng's name resounded all over the country.
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Lei Feng was molded into a model figure of Chinese mainland in the 1960s and 1980s. Lei Feng's spirit "is the spirit of serving the people wholeheartedly, that is, the * * * capitalist outlook on life or the socialist collectivism values". On September, 2009 10, Lei Feng was named as one of "100 people who moved China since the founding of New China".