The names of the ten marshals are familiar to everyone, but if you want to talk about the name of China's first female lieutenant general, I am afraid that I don't know much. On July 24, 1993, at the age of 63, Nie Li became China's first female lieutenant general.
What is even more incredible is that Nie Li's military rank is still the lowest in their family, her husband Ding Henggao is the rank of general, and her father is the marshal that everyone is familiar with, Nie Rongzhen.
Nie Li once introduced the love story of his parents in his reminiscence articles in his later years. That was in the twenties, when Nie Rongzhen was working underground in Hong Kong. Nie Shuai has studied abroad for five years, first in France, and then in Belgium at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Charlois University of Labor. In October 1924, he was ordered to study at the Communist University of Eastern Workers in Moscow. He returned to China after the outbreak of the May Thirtieth Movement in 1925.
In 1927, Nie Rongzhen went to Hong Kong to carry out underground struggle for 4 years. Here I met Zhang Ruihua, a confidential traffic officer. In 1928, the 29-year-old Nie Rongzhen married 19-year-old Zhang Ruihua. The underground struggle is tense, and the life is very poor, but the two people who love each other do not feel bitter.
Once, Zhang Ruihua asked Nie Rongzhen to accompany her to the mall, and it turned out that she wanted to buy him a shirt. Nie Rongzhen was reluctant to spend money to buy things for himself, so he didn't want it, and deliberately said to Zhang Ruihua, no, there was a situation, and pulled his wife away.
Nie Li was born in 1930. In his childhood, his impression of his father was vague, because of the cruelty of the underground struggle, Nie Rongzhen was often not by their side. In 1931, because of the needs of the organization, he left Hong Kong and went to work in the Central Soviet Region. This farewell, Nie Li goodbye to his father is 14 years later.
When Nie Li was 3 years old, Zhang Ruihua took her to Shanghai, and Zhang Ruihua continued to work as an underground traffic officer in the British Concession. With the company of his mother, Nie Li's life was also carefree, who knew that the good times were not good, one day, due to traitors, when the comrades at an underground traffic station met, they were all arrested, and that time, many people were arrested when they went out of the traffic station, including Nie Li, who was only 3 years old. But the enemy did not confirm that they had captured the underground party.
In the face of the arrested adults, the enemy did not ask anything of value, but set his sights on the ignorant child. The enemy used candy to set Nie Li's words, but Nie Li and his mother were dependent on each other, and Zhang Ruihua usually let her remain vigilant and not tell strangers about family affairs. And know how to keep secrets. Therefore, Nie Li did not eat candy at all, nor did he pay attention to the enemy, and when he was really hungry, he ate the wild vegetable porridge sent by the patrol room and was difficult to swallow. Since there was no evidence, they let their mother and daughter go.
Nie Li was arrested at the age of 3 and her parents left her when she was 5 years old. Because Zhang Ruihua was going to work in northern Shaanxi, Nie Li was placed in a foster home of a worker doing underground work. But there are old people in his family, and there are several children below, and life is much more difficult than when he was with Zhang Ruihua.
From the age of 5 to 14, Nie Li has suffered a lot in the past ten years, and has also developed a character of perseverance, simplicity, hard work, bravery and ability to endure hardships. Not only did she have to take care of children younger than her, but she also learned to cut wheat and plant seedlings early. Spinning thread, weaving fabrics, etc., once, Nie Li was picking cotton in the field, the cotton rod smashed the calf, shed a lot of blood, no money to buy medicine, so he used mud to paste the wound. Later, the wound became infected with suppuration and rotted to the bone, and it took a long time to get better.
For a while, the family was so poor that she wanted to beg for food, but she was stopped by her grandmother, afraid that she would be bitten by a dog at a young age, so she went by herself. But this is not the most bitter, because the parents are not around for many years, and she is described as a wild child by the children around her. This made her cry many times. As she grew up, she knew that her parents were not abandoning her, but doing the right thing, something good for more people.
At the age of 12, Nie Li, who knew gratitude, entered a spinning factory as a female worker to subsidize the family. Until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the 15-year-old Nie Li was taken to the Liberated Areas, and Nie Li did not know what his father looked like at this time. Someone pointed out to Nie Li to see a picture of his father in the pictorial. Nie Li knew that his father's name was Nie Rongzhen and his mother's name was Zhang Ruihua. At this point, a family that has been separated for 14 years is reunited.
With no formal education, 15-year-old Nie Li had to attend primary school with children much younger than her. However, she overcame psychological discomfort, studied hard, and soon became the best in the class, and became the class leader.
In 1955, at the age of 25, Nie Li was also admitted to the Leningrad Institute of Precision Machinery and Optical Instruments in the Soviet Union with outstanding results. Here I met and met Ding Henggao, who was studying for graduate school at the university. Ding Henggao is a standard academic bully, receiving his doctorate in 1961. After returning to China in 1962, the two married in Guangzhou. The wedding was rudimentary, but more than half of the marshals, many generals, attended the wedding.
In the early 1960s, after Nie Jicheng returned to China, he was assigned to work at the Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and since then he has embarked on the journey of striving for the cause of national defense science and technology. She integrated her entire life into the development of science and technology. From a technician to the deputy director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. He participated in the development and organization of large-scale national defense scientific research projects such as the missile control system autopilot, the "Yuanwang" ocean-going space survey ship, and the "Galaxy" series of supercomputers. Because of his outstanding contributions to the cause of national defense science and technology, Nie Li received the rank of major general in 1988. He was promoted to lieutenant general in 1993. Become the first female lieutenant general in China.
Nie Li was arrested at the age of 3, grew up in a difficult situation, only went to primary school at the age of 15, went to college at the age of 25, relying on her unremitting efforts and strong perseverance, she shortened the distance step by step, and flew against the trend, becoming an outstanding woman who made many people envious.