Xi to award national medals, honorary titles

BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will award national medals and honorary titles at a ceremony held on Sunday ahead of the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will confer the highest state honors at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

As the ceremony started, senior official Cai Qi read out a presidential order signed by Xi on the awards.

Four people will be awarded the Medal of the Republic.

Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank and former Brazilian president, will receive the Friendship Medal.

Ten people will be awarded medals of national honorary titles.