When the fifth HKCE stepped down, he held the ceremony of giving honor to those people. It simply was like dividing small cakes, the meaning of giving honor had been lost.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
这是四十年乃至几千年未曾成就过的奇勋。
這是四十年乃至幾千年未曾成就過的奇勳。
zhè shì sì shí nián nǎi zhì jǐ qiān nián wèi céng chéng jiù guò de qí xūn ．
This is a marvelous feat never before achieved, not just in forty, but in thousands of years.
Mandarin
这个贫农大群众，合共占乡村人口百分之七十，乃是农民协会的中坚，打倒封建势力的先锋，成就那多年未曾成就的革命大业的元勋。
這個貧農大羣眾，合共佔鄉村人口百分之七十，乃是農民協會的中堅，打倒封建勢力的先鋒，成就那多年未曾成就的革命大業的元勳。
zhè ge pín nóng dà qún zhòng ， hé gòng zhàn xiāng cūn rén kǒu bǎi fēn zhī qī shí ， nǎi shì nóng mín xié huì de zhōng jiān ， dǎ dǎo fēng jiàn shì lì de xiān fēng ， chéng jiù nà duō nián wèi céng chéng jiù de gé mìng dà yè de yuán xūn ．
This great mass of poor peasants, or altogether 70 per cent of the rural population, are the backbone of the peasant associations, the vanguard in the overthrow of the feudal forces and the heroes who have performed the great revolutionary task which for long years was left undone.