March 5th is "Learning Lei Feng Memorial Day" or Lei Feng Day for short. After Comrade Lei Feng died in the line of duty, his diary and deeds were reported by some news media. China Youth magazine thinks that Lei Feng is a model for young people in peacetime, and plans to issue a comprehensive issue on March 2 1963 to introduce Lei Feng's deeds. On February 6, 2007, they wrote to Chairman Mao, hoping that he could write an inscription for Lei Feng. After reading the letter, Chairman Mao wrote an inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" in order to comprehensively summarize the spirit of serving the people wholeheartedly from the interests of the people. On March 2nd, Chairman Mao's inscription was published in China Youth. On the 4th, Xinhua News Agency issued a manuscript. On the 5th, the national newspapers published the inscription of Chairman Mao's "Learning from Comrade Lei Feng". Later, the central government decided to set March 5 as the memorial day for learning Lei Feng.