China's missile industry was led forward by Qian Xuesen as the leader in scientific research; the young and handsome young people gathered at the scientific research institute at that time devoted themselves to studying China's missile cause.
Under such perseverance, such a group of people who have never seen a missile have supported the backbone of China's national defense.
Posterity knows their greatness, but does not know their hardships, and in the days that followed, we had the privilege of spying on the notes made by Qian Xuesen in his later years to spy on the first two of that period.
Qian Xuesen's touching words and sentences let us see the bumpy road of a leading scientific figure, and in this difficult road, Qian Xuesen will always remember Chairman Mao's teachings.
In 1956, Qian Xuesen will always remember the scene of his first meeting with Chairman Mao.
At that time, Premier Zhou introduced him to Chairman Mao, and when Qian Xuesen saw china's leaders with trepidation, it was difficult to calm the excitement in his heart, and unlike what Qian Xuesen thought, Chairman Mao behaved very approachable compared to his own nervousness.
Chairman Mao affirmed Qian Xuesen's choice to return to China, saying that china today must be engaged in scientific research, and qian Xuesen's return is just in time.
These words made Qian Xuesen slightly nervous, although he had made some achievements in engineering cybernetics, but Chairman Mao wanted to put himself in charge of the scientific research of national defense construction, which was a heavy enough responsibility.
Moreover, Qian Xuesen has just returned to China, he is very unfamiliar with the domestic situation, let him move forward in the field of scientific research that he is most familiar with, it really needs to be a working environment like a fish in the water, the fish into the water is not necessarily quick to adapt, the environment is very important, then, China's scientific research environment can make Qian Xuesen this fish swim freely in it?
Chairman Mao's next words made Qian Xuesen calm down, and he encouraged Qian Xuesen and asked him not to be afraid of doing a bad job! It is precisely under such encouragement that Qian Xuesen was able to go all out in the domestic environment.
Perhaps Chairman Mao's teachings at that time seemed to others to be the pressure of work, but it was exactly the motivation qian Xuesen needed.
With the full cooperation of the two great men of state leaders and scientific research giants, the motherland's national defense scientific research undertaking has entered the right track. From November 5, 1960 to April 1970, nuclear bombs, missiles and artificial satellites belonging to China appeared one after another, and since then, the title of "two bombs and one satellite" has been engraved in Qian Xuesen's life.
"Two bombs and one satellite" involve state secrets, in order for them to be born, how many scientific researchers have spent their lives in anonymity, Qian Xuesen, as one of them, heard that there was any wind and grass in the institute, Qian Xuesen had to rush over as soon as possible, and sometimes, when encountering problems that are difficult for academics to overcome, Qian Xuesen disappeared for several months.
Wife Jiang Ying still remembers about that period of time, her husband, who has always been very concerned about the family, suddenly became mysterious, what to do, where to go and refuse to tell himself, once said that he was going to "travel", a walk directly for several months, in a hurry, she went directly to the Ministry of National Defense, asked Qian Xuesen if he wanted this home.
Qian Xuesen felt very guilty about this, but he could not shake his scientific determination because of his children's private feelings.
Qian Xuesen and Jiang Ying's husband and wife life was the real life of all scientific research scholars during that period, Qian Xuesen's "business trip" without warning was the real life of all scientific research scholars at that time, for Qian Xuesen, leaving aside the family is just a future Chinese people can keep their homes.
At the beginning, his heart was also very worried, the chairman said that he was the originator of engineering cybernetics, and he did achieve some achievements in the theoretical field, but the gap between practice and theory was too big, and in the road of crossing the river by feeling the stones, he and his comrades touched the ash too many times without exception.
Often, after encountering news from various groups that it was difficult to continue, Qian Xuesen would think of Chairman Mao's teachings in the middle of the night, and he remembered the chairman's teachings: We must understand that the new and most vital things are always struggling with and growing up from the old and decaying things.
The chairman's preference for the field of scientific research can always replenish the strength when Qian Xuesen is beaten by reality, how many days and nights Qian Xuesen has spent to recall the chairman's teachings, he himself can not count, perhaps the chairman is already a confidant to himself.
After the success of the first atomic bomb explosion, the central leaders who have always advocated frugality and not engaging in large feasts have changed their previous style and wanted to treat scientific research personnel well.
He sat directly next to Chairman Mao from a table of scientific researchers next to him, and many people were very curious about this Qian Xuesen's origin. To be able to get the Chair to attach so much importance to it.
On the day of the banquet, the chairman introduced Qian Xuesen to everyone present and called him "several of our kings."
"Several kings" refers to the king of engineering control and the king of rockets, and Qian Xuesen is flattered, but in his heart he wants to fight for the national defense cause of the motherland.
Judging from Qian Xuesen's life, he is indeed worthy of the enthusiasm in his heart, and in order to be able to return to the motherland, Qian Xuesen can say five levels and six generals, and these obstacles are all given by the United States.
In the United States period, Americans have already noticed the value of Qian Xuesen, and the open national style has made The American Jimbo directly say to Qian Xuesen: You are too valuable, you can't leave the United States.
Jimbo's words were just a symptom, as soon as Qian Xuesen left Jimbo's office, the U.S. Department of Justice had already ordered qian Xuesen to leave the United States.
Before he returned to China, the US side can be said to have exhausted all kinds of methods to try to get Qian Xuesen to stay, first holding four "hearings" in a row, all of which were based on qian Xuesen's return to China, and launched a discussion of many people questioning Qian Xuesen, but unfortunately, even if the other side has sent a judge who is known for his cunning and sinister, Gurji, they can only bow to the wind.
Seeing that Qian Xuesen, who had a very good mind, did not eat this set at all, they used mental torture to control Qian Xuesen. Qian Xuesen, who was exposed to strong light every fifteen minutes, lost more than thirty pounds in a short period of time, but despite this, Qian Xuesen, who was almost mentally broken, insisted on the idea of returning to the embrace of Chinese people.
Chairman Mao said that if he could surpass 5 divisions, he would build up more than 5 divisions to give back to the motherland, and the success and fame of Qian Xuesen was only the encouragement and freedom given by the chairman.
In his later years, he was seriously ill in bed, and at that time, he met his old friend of many years, Yang Zhenning.
At that time, Yang Zhenning was already a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and no one did not think that he was the "big winner" of the physics industry. After decades of time, when the two met again, Yang Zhenning could not help but sigh, not understanding the reason why Qian Xuesen was so "fighting", he was curious about what the state had given him.
Hearing this, Qian Xuesen smiled slightly, he knew that his old friend had already received a million-dollar reward for his scientific research achievements, and also won the awards he had envisioned when he was young, but asked him if he had not received these regrets? He has absolutely no regrets.
The reward of creating a missile is only ten yuan, this number is listening to Yang Zhenning's ears, it is tantamount to a joke, after repeated confirmation, he looked at Qian Xuesen incomprehensibly, there are no two identical leaves in this world, so the pursuit of different is just an established fact.
Why can't Qian Xuesen win the Nobel Prize? As long as he does not insist on returning to China, as long as he is willing to continue to study in the United States, he will have the world's most advanced scientific research studio, there will be absolutely sufficient capital to support his research, but he has the motherland, and the motherland's call to him is beyond the attraction of the award.
Maybe he had a better personal development in the United States, but he could not meet his own Bole - Chairman Mao, and his lifelong pursuit became very clear at this time, for Qian Xuesen, returning to China was not only the result of a journey, but the beginning of another life.
Chairman Mao affirmed Qian Xuesen's efforts, and even more knew how much effort this precious talent had put into the motherland, and in order to be able to commend him, everyone proposed to award Qian Xuesen the rank of lieutenant general, which was to affirm Qian Xuesen's persistence in the field of science, but Qian Xuesen was not willing to accept it.
Qian Xuesen seeks a confidant, not an honor, fading the aura of the outside world, Chairman Mao is a military scientist, Qian Xuesen is a scientist, the two should not have the academic intersection of communication, but they are very different.
At the supreme meeting that year, the chairman used materialistic dialectics to look at physical problems, and the analysis in it surprised Qian Xuesen. It was after that discussion that when Qian Xuesen faced the chairman, he not only respected, but also admired.
They are like a pair of partners in the way forward of the motherland, fighting side by side to push China to a higher place, although the two sides have not been together for a long time, but still have a sense of pity for each other.
During Qian Xuesen's last work, he recalled Chairman Mao's earnest teachings again and again, and said bluntly that I will always remember them. China's road also needs talent to support, so he repeatedly explained the importance of talent to his subordinates.
Until 2009, we bid farewell to this great scientific research man, but the talent plan he adhered to is still in the process of rapid development, and this obsession is implemented in the spirit of the policy, and I believe that under our efforts, a large number of talents will inevitably appear to support China's construction and continue to develop.