When I was in school, I remember that there was a text about Qian Xuesen's experience of returning to China. Just the description in the textbook, just a few strokes, Qian Xuesen's real road back to China is far more thrilling than the textbook.
In 1949, the news of the founding of New China reached the ears of Qian Xuesen, who was in a foreign land. From this time on, Qian Xuesen and his wife Jiang Ying began to run for the road back to China.
At that time, Qian Xuesen was already in aerodynamics, missile science and other majors, with great fame, which was highly valued by the American scientific community and allowed him to participate in scientific confidential research.
When Qian Xuesen was a professor at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, his monthly salary was $2,000, but after returning to his homeland many years later, his one-month salary was only 835.8 yuan.
Therefore, when Qian Xuesen faced the comfortable environment and high salary in the United States, he resolutely chose to return to China, entirely because of his patriotic heart, but the United States would not let him return to China so easily.
U.S. Navy Vice Secretary Danny Kimball once said in public: "Wherever Qian Xuesen goes, he is worth the strength of 5 divisions." Therefore, Qian Xuesen's return to China was forcibly blocked by the United States.
In 1950, the United States detained Qian Xuesen and confiscated his home in order to find so-called evidence. During the days when he was imprisoned, Qian Xuesen could not sleep at night, and it did not take long to lose 30 pounds.
It was not until the California Institute of Technology came up with bail, and the U.S. side really couldn't find evidence and continued to detain Qian Xuesen, that he was released, but this did not mean that he could leave the United States.
In the five years from 1950 to 1955, Qian Xuesen always wanted to return to China but never succeeded. Since Qian Xuesen could reach five divisions, why did the United States finally let him return to China?
The United States was willing to let go, and it was not so easy at that time. It was not until 1954 that Qian Xuesen contacted Chen Shutong and conveyed his urgent desire to return to China that the matter began to turn around.
The matter of Qian Xuesen has aroused great attention from our country, and at the time of the talks on July 21, 1954, in-depth negotiations were held with the United States on the matter of Qian Xuesen's return to China.
In order to make this matter go smoothly, our country took the lead in making concessions, released 4 American pilots back to China, and then negotiated with the United States many times, and finally at the cost of releasing 11 American pilots, the United States finally relaxed.
How valuable these 11 pilots is, I am afraid, only the United States itself knows. In that era of lack of materials and technology, the energy and amount of energy and amount of energy required to train 11 high-quality flight personnel were difficult to calculate.
China's chips were too tempting, and Qian Xuesen was finally able to return to China. On September 17, 1955, Qian Xuesen took his wife Jiang Ying and his children and finally embarked on the road back to China.
On October 8, 1955, Qian Xuesen finally returned to the embrace of his mother. In the decades that followed, Qian Xuesen devoted himself to the missile industry in the motherland, laying the theoretical foundation for China's mechanics and aerospace in the 1950s.
In order to make China can also launch atomic bombs, Qian Xuesen and colleagues work day and night, if you have watched the "Qian Xuesen" movie, you know how much effort was spent on the study of atomic bombs at that time.
One of the small things worth saying is that when Qian Xuesen was a professor at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, Qian Xuesen was often unwilling to explain too much in the face of the confusion of American students. After returning to China, as long as colleagues and students do not understand, no matter how many times they talk about it, Qian Xuesen is also quite patient. Whether a person loves the country or not really does not rely on words.
On October 16, 1964, China finally fired its first atomic bomb. I think everybody knows what that means. Qian Xuesen advanced China's missile industry by 20 years. Five years to return to China, ten years and two bombs, the United States believes that Qian Xuesen is worthy of five divisions, perhaps, is too conservative.
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