In April, Li was officially honored by the Chinese government as a "martyr," which is the highest honor the government can bestow on a citizen who dies serving China. According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, he was honored together with 13 other "martyrs," mostly physicians, who died from COVID-19. Chinese Internet users have left more than 870,000 comments under Li's last post on social website Sina Weibo since his death.
