On this day 42 years ago, on March 18, 1983 (February 4, 1983 lunar calendar), Qian Xinzhong, Director of the National Family Planning Commission, was awarded the Population Award by the United Nations for the first time. Qian Xinzhong On March 18, 1983, Anwarul Kalim Zidholi, Chairperson of the United Nations Population Award Committee, announced that Qian Xinzhong, Director of the National Family Planning Commission of our country, was awarded the 1983 United Nations Population Award. Also awarded was Indian Prime Minister Ying Gandhi. This is the first time the United Nations has awarded a population award. United Nations Population Award, On December 17, 1981, the 36th session of the United Nations General Assembly, based on the joint proposal of 13 countries including Japan, China and Mexico, adopted the resolution on the establishment of the United Nations Population Award Fund, the award of the United Nations Population Award and the statute of the United Nations Population Award. The purpose is to encourage countries to make efforts to engage in activities related to the field of population and to increase awareness of population issues in order to promote the solution of population problems. Every year, prizes, certificates and medals are awarded to an individual, a collective or an institution that has made contributions in the field of population, which are selected annually by the elected Population Award Committee. Qian Xinzhong: Former Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China, born in Baoshan County, Jiangsu Province in 1911. In 1928, he went to study medicine at Baolong Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. In December 1933, he served as the director of the In December 1940, the 129th Division Health Department and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters Field Health Department merged. Qian Xinzhong served as the minister. In 1942, he served as the political commissar. In 1945, he served as the minister of health of the Jin-Hebei-Luyu Military Region. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qian Xinzhong served as the minister of health of the Southwest Military Region. In 1951, he went to the First Medical College of the Soviet Union to study as a graduate student in the Department of Health and received an associate doctorate in medicine from the Soviet Union. In 1956, he returned to China and served as the deputy minister of health of the General Logistics Department and the president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of major general. In 1957, he served as the deputy minister of health of the People's Republic of China. In 1965, he served as the minister of health of the People's Republic of