Recently, the August 1st Medal, which represents the highest honor of Chinese military personnel, has produced three nominees, namely Du Fuguo, Nie Haisheng and Qian Qihu. Among them, Du Fuguo is a hero of mine clearance, and Nie Haisheng is a hero of aerospace, and their deeds are known to everyone, but for Qian Qihu, most people feel strange. What feat did this white-haired old man, who was over eighty years old, do to receive the honor of the August 1st Medal? Today, we will understand the legendary life of this great hero.
Qian Seven Tigers. A native of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, born in October 1937, now 85 years old, his childhood years were spent in a brutal war. After the founding of New China, he relied on the bursaries provided by the people's government to complete his high school studies with excellent results.
In 1954, when he was 17 years old, Qian Qihu entered the harbin military engineering college, the top military industrial institution in China at that time, with excellent college entrance examination results, and obeyed the arrangement, entered the Department of Engineering and Arms, and began to study the very unpopular protection engineering major.
At that time, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union had already broken out, China's external environment had deteriorated sharply, and the Americans were clamoring almost every day to use atomic bombs to carry out nuclear strikes against China.
Therefore, the main research direction of the protection engineering major at that time was how to ensure that we could survive a nuclear strike and launch a counterattack. Therefore, survival is the first, and only by surviving can there be a chance to fight back.
From entering the Kazakh military industry in 1954 until 1965, returning from studying in the Soviet Union, Qian Qihu has been conceiving of building an underground steel Wall for China and ensuring that China has a secondary nuclear counterattack capability.
According to the information, in order to test the protective door of the aircraft depot he designed, after suffering damage after the shock wave of the nuclear bomb, when the mushroom cloud took off in the northwest Gobi Desert, when others were cheering and celebrating, he was already wearing protective clothing, rushing into the nuclear bomb explosion center and personally conducting field tests.
What he carried out was the engineering research on the explosion protection of nuclear bombs, which was in a state of top secrecy at that time. After that, he also conducted in-depth and meticulous research on various explosives such as artillery shells, aerial bombs, ground-penetrating bombs, atomic bombs, and hydrogen bombs.
Ensure that the mainland has a reliable secondary nuclear counterattack capability without the first use of nuclear weapons and without firing the first shot. It is no exaggeration to say that the research work carried out by Qian Qihu and the series of underground defense projects he has built under his guidance are China's last line of defense, a veritable underground great wall of steel, and the cornerstone of China's strategic defense.
In order to complete these highly secret projects, Qian Qihu left only a 6-character note, and for 16 years he was anonymous and separated from his family.
It is precisely because of his lofty dedication, firm conviction, and infinite loyalty to the motherland and the people that in the years of arduous struggle for decades, he has continuously studied and innovated, and has created one engineering miracle after another in the field of national defense construction and national economic construction, which has been admired by Chinese and foreign scholars. He has led China's underground protection engineering and rock mechanics research, walking in the forefront of the world.
It can be said that China can have today's stable environment, Qian Qihu is indispensable, and he was awarded the August 1st Medal, which is completely deserved.