Dong Cunrui (Chinese: 董存瑞; pinyin: Dǒng Cúnruì; 1929 - May 25, 1948) was a Chinese Communist soldier in the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War who blew himself up in order to destroy a Kuomintang bunker guarding an approach to an important bridge in Longhua County.
[1] Under heavy fire, he reached the bunker, but there was no place to effectively position the explosives.
", he detonated the explosives he carried, killing himself and the defenders within the bunker.
He was depicted in a 1955 film Dong Cunrui directed by Guo Wei, and a 2009 TV miniseries titled For a new China, forward.
His story was also published in national elementary Chinese textbooks.