Yang Gui
Yang Gui (28 May 1928 – 10 April 2018) was a Chinese politician who served as Party Committee Secretary of Lin County (now Linzhou City) in Henan Province. During his tenure he designed and oversaw the construction of the Red Flag Canal from 1960 to 1969, a major irrigation project considered by Premier Zhou Enlai as one of the two "miracles" of the People's Republic of China. He is called one of the three most beloved county secretaries in Henan, together with Jiao Yulu of Lankao and Zheng Yonghe of Huixian. Early life and career Yang was born on 28 May 1928 in Ji County (now Weihui City), Henan province as Yang Haiyu. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he joined the Communist guerrillas at the age of 14 and became a member of the Communist Party of China the next year. He fought in the Chinese Civil War and was wounded in battle in July 1947. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Yang worked as a party official in Ji county and Tangyin county. In the summer of 1953, when the party secretary of Lin County was hospitalized, the prefectural government of Anyang sent Yang