In the history of China, there have been many outstanding women, such as Women Hao, Wu Zetian, Princess Pingyang Zhao, etc., whose achievements are difficult for posterity to look up to, and New China has respected women's rights and interests since Chairman Mao, "women can stand up to half the sky."
So women can also be generals! For example, li Zhen, the founding female major general, and Nie Li, China's first female lieutenant general!
Nie Li is China's first female lieutenant general in the world, and can be said to be world-famous, but her father is more famous - the founding marshal Nie Rongzhen.
Nie Rongzhen is not only one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army and the founding father of the people's liberation army, but also the main planner and promoter of the two bombs and one star, that is to say, Nie Shuai's whole life has been to pay for the revolutionary cause and new China, so lofty and admirable!
Nie Li was the only daughter of Marshal Nie Rongzhen, and this only daughter did not disgrace her father, and inherited the spirit of dedication and hard work well.
Pictured: The second from the right is Nie Li
On September 23, 1930, Nie Li was born in Shanghai, which was great news for Nie Rongzhen, who was already 31 years old at the time, and there were only children in the first year, and Nie Rongzhen must have been "afraid of falling in his hands and afraid of melting in his mouth" for his daughter.
However, during the war years, many things were involuntary, because of Gu Shunzhang's rebellion, the revolutionary cause in Shanghai was devastated, Nie Rongzhen had many contacts with Gu Shunzhang, and for safety, the central government sent him to work in the CCP Soviet area, so Nie Li, who had only turned one year old, was forced to separate from his father.
At that time, the situation of the CCP was very difficult, and high-level figures such as Nie Rongzhen were also in danger of life at any time, so Nie Li's childhood was not even as happy as ordinary people.
In Shanghai, where the white terror is extremely serious, Nie Rongzhen's lover Zhang Ruihua has to pass on information for the organization while taking care of his daughter, which is not only hurried and nervous, but also a little more dangerous.
In 1934, Zhang Ruihua took Nie Li to live in a secret contact point in the British Concession, but unfortunately the traitor's betrayal address was exposed. The enemy soon found the door, and the young Nie Li was taken away.
The mother and daughter were first locked up in the patrol room of West Devil Road, and two days later they were sent to the Tilanqiao Women's Prison.
In prison, Nie Li was very well-behaved and honestly stayed by his mother's side, during which the enemy also let several female agents mix in, trying to coax Nie Li to try to get some information out of the children's mouth. However, Nie Li basically ignored others except for his mother, and this understanding made the enemy never find evidence, so in the end the mother and daughter were safely released.
In this way, the five-year-old Nie Li was first separated from his father, and then separated from his mother, there was only one grandmother around him, Mao Qihua's mother, but the Mao family was not rich, in order to live, Nie Li began to do a lot of things: laundry, cooking, weeding, cattle herding, feeding pigs, planting land, cutting wheat, hiring others, taking children, etc. All kinds of hardships were eaten, and her strong character was cultivated.
So she missed an opportunity to meet her parents, but it is also very good for an 8-year-old child to have this sense of prevention.
In 1942, Nie Li worked as a child laborer in a spinning factory, only 12 years old, the evil old society.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the situation was slightly stable, Nie Rongzhen and Zhang Ruihua missed their daughter very much, but they did not know where their daughter was now, or Mao Qihua returned to his hometown to find Nie Li, and after some tossing and turning, he finally sent Nie Li to Beiping, where Nie Rongzhen was working in the Beiping Military Investigation Office.
When he arrived in Beiping, the first thing Nie Li saw was Ye Jianying, and when Ye Jianying saw that her appearance looked like Nie Rongzhen, he took out a photo of Nie Shuai and joked: You take this photo to see who is your father.
In a room, Nie Li finally met his father, who had been away for 15 years, and his daughter could only speak Shanghainese, while his father could not, and the two of them could not say a complete sentence for half a day.
Nie Li smiled and took out the photo given by Ye Jianying from his pocket, and smiled at Nie Rongzhen: "This is the picture of my uncle's father." After saying that, the two laughed happily.
After returning to her father, Nie Li began to receive education, her talent is very high and very hard, the homework left behind during the war has been made up, and the results are very good, more than ten years later, teachers and classmates mentioned her, the deepest impression is still hard work.
At the age of 24, she was admitted to the preparatory class for staying in the Soviet Union, and later entered the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optical Instruments, and she studied whatever the country needed.
After graduating and returning to China in 1960, Nie Li was assigned to the Fifth Research Institute, which was China's first missile research institute, with heavy responsibilities and honors, and she put on her military uniform and began to embark on the road of national defense scientific research. Starting from the intern, he has been doing his best to fulfill his duties, and was slowly promoted to team leader and director, and later transferred to the Science and Technology Department of the Science and Technology Commission of the Ministry of National Defense as deputy director.
In 1988, nie li was awarded the rank of major general for his contributions in the field of national defense science and technology, and later Nie Li participated in leading the development of the national key national defense engineering project - "Galaxy - II." giant machine, so in 1993 he was promoted to lieutenant general, the world's first female lieutenant general.
His father was a marshal, he was a lieutenant general, and his husband was also very powerful— a general.
Nie Li's husband is Ding Henggao, the two met during the Soviet Study Period, Ding Henggao is a native of Nanjing, graduated from the Mechanical Department of the School of Engineering of Nanjing University in 1952, studied precision machinery and automatic control in 1957 at the Leningrad Institute of Precision Machinery and Optical Instruments in the Soviet Union, obtained an associate doctorate, and is a high-tech talent.
From right: daughter Nie Li, wife Zhang Ruihua, Nie Rongzhen, granddaughter Nie Fei, son-in-law Ding Henggao
After Ding Henggao returned to China, he also worked in the Fifth Research Institute for a long time, engaged in front-line research for a long time, and some people commented that he "often carried slippers to the research room and workshop to engage in scientific research and production", which shows that he has completely regarded his work as home.
He is mainly engaged in the development of gyroscopes, accelerometers, inertial platform systems, etc. of guided weapons, participated in the research, design, testing and satellite launch of strategic missiles, and made outstanding contributions to the accurate and accurate launch of China's missiles.
Foreigners called him an "expert in cutting-edge technology and optical instruments" and "an expert in the defense industry."
Ding Henggao's great contribution to the army's scientific and technological work deserves any honor, and he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1988; in 1994, he was further promoted to the rank of general, and it was also in this year that he became one of the first academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
His family with Nie Li is also the highest ranking family in the world.
In fact, throughout Nie Li's life, she has been very smart since she was a child, and she has not received any preferential treatment because of her father, and when she grows up, she also relies on her own efforts to make progress little by little, and uses her profession to contribute to the country, so the most important thing for her to become the world's first female lieutenant general is still in herself!