At the end of 1931, Nie Rongzhen, who was in Shanghai, received an organizational order to go to the central revolutionary base area of Jiangxi, at that time, Nie Rongzhen's daughter Nie Li was born only 1 year and 4 months, but for the victory of the revolution, Nie Rongzhen could only be separated from his wife and children.
Nie Rongzhen's wife is named Zhang Ruihua, a graduate of the Wuhan branch of the Huangpu Military Academy, also a revolutionary worker, after her husband Nie Rongzhen went to Jiangxi, he took his young daughter to the banks of the Huangpu River, became an underground traffic officer, and did his best to make a contribution to the victory of the revolution, but unfortunately, in 1932, because of traitor betrayal, all the comrades of the contact point were arrested, and 3-year-old Nie Li also went to prison with his mother.
Because Nie Li was young, the enemy tried every means to extract some useful information from Nie Li's mouth, but Nie Li was very obedient, did not cry or make trouble, and when he was hungry, he ate wild vegetable porridge that was difficult for even adults to swallow, and turned a blind eye to the temptation of the enemy.
Two years later, because they could not get any useful information out of Zhang Ruihua and Nie Li's mouths, they had no choice but to release their mother and son, and when they were released from prison, Nie Li was 5 years old.
After his release from prison, Zhang Ruihua, because of the needs of work, came to northern Shaanxi to reunite with Nie Rongzhen, while Nie Li was fostered in the home of a worker in Shanghai.
This worker, the salary is not high, therefore, the childhood Nie Li, while studying, but also while taking care of several young children, its hard work, can be imagined, when Nie Li reached the age of 12, in order to make a living, had to enter the spinning factory as a child laborer.
The children's labor in the Republic of China, life is not easy, coupled with the war and chaos years, How sad Nie Li's life is, can be imagined, but the suffering of childhood has also made Nie Li develop a calm and sensible character, hard work and resentment.
In 1945, with the help of the organization, Nie Li came to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and found his father, Nie Rongzhen, after 15 years, the father and daughter were reunited again.
After arriving at Nie Rongzhen's side, Nie Rongzhen sent his daughter to the newly established "Rongzhen School", when Nie Li was 15 years old, but he cherished the hard-won learning opportunities, sitting in a classroom with a seven- or eight-year-old child, learning very seriously, and soon, he made up for his lack of homework, starting from primary school, Nie Li, has always been a good student with excellent grades in the class.
Although Nie Li's father is the chief, but Nie Li never engages in special, Nie Li's place to go to school, far from the school, every day is a bicycle to school, once it snows heavily, the guards drive Nie Li to school, but Nie Li feels uncomfortable, hard to get off the car halfway, step on the thick snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow to go to school...
With hard work and seriousness, in 1955, Nie Li was admitted to the Leningrad Institute of Precision Machinery and Optical Instruments in the Soviet Union, and in the Soviet Union, Nie Li met her later husband Ding Henggao, and in 1962, she married him happily.
After returning to China, Nie Li was assigned to work at the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense, and since then he has embarked on the road of striving for the cause of national defense science and technology, and Nie Li has successively participated in the development and organization of large-scale national defense scientific research projects such as the automatic driving instrument of the missile control system, the "Yuanwang" ocean-going space survey ship, and the "Galaxy" series of supercomputers.
Because of his due diligence, in 1988, Nie Li was awarded the rank of major general, and five years later, at the age of 63, Nie Li was promoted to lieutenant general and became the only female lieutenant general in New China.
Nie Li's husband, Ding Henggao, also has high achievements, is one of the founders of China's strategic missile inertial technology, the main promoter of the development of China's inertial technology discipline, and in 1994, he was promoted to general.