Pictured: Zhang Aiping reports the atomic bomb explosion to the central authorities
During the revolutionary war years, the generals of the Republic all left a great contribution to the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they still maintained the true color of revolution and contributed their own strength to national defense construction.
Among them, General Zhang Aiping, the founder of the "Rocket Force" unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, has devoted a great deal of painstaking efforts to the research of China's strategic heavy weapon "nuclear bomb" and has achieved the prestige of China's nuclear forces.
This general not only made outstanding contributions to his career, but also was happy in his emotional life, his wife was the beloved daughter of a large enterprise, and she was also a famous beauty, and his four children have opened up a career in their respective fields, and have become the pillars of the country.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > born into poor families and made great contributions to the Chinese revolution</h1>
Born in 1910 to a peasant family in Daxian County, Sichuan Province, Zhang Aiping threw herself into the revolutionary cause at the age of 15, becoming a full member of the Communist Youth League from the beginning. Later, he followed the Central Red Army through the 25,000-mile Long March, and entered the Red Army University in 1936, and became a teacher at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in 1937.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was assigned by the central authorities to carry out work behind enemy lines in zhejiang, and later entered the Wuhan office of the Eighth Route Army to take charge of united front work. After the Anhui Incident in 1941, he worked in the New Fourth Army and made great contributions to smashing the encirclement and suppression of the Kuomintang reactionaries and the Japanese Kou.
In the ensuing Liberation War, Zhang Aiping was appointed deputy commander of the Central China Theater of Operations, and later went to the Soviet Union for recuperation due to a head injury. At the end of 1948, in accordance with the instructions of the Central Committee, he actively recruited Kuomintang naval personnel, so that china became a naval force with tenacious combat capability in a very short period of time.
After the founding of New China, he was responsible for the military and political work in East China, and in 1955 he commanded China's first joint combat operation of the navy, land and air force, and conquered Yijiangshan Island, which was guarded by the remnants of the Kuomintang in one fell swoop.
In the years that followed, General Zhang Aiping devoted all his energy to the construction of national defense science and technology. He formulated a national long-term plan for future science and technology, and at the same time was also the deputy director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, responsible for the construction of the national defense industry. He has also served as the commander-in-chief of China's nuclear tests four times and personally guided China's nuclear weapons tests.
When nuclear weapons research encountered great difficulties, Zhang Aiping personally went deep into various research institutes across the country and wrote to the central authorities to concentrate the country's forces on nuclear engineering construction.
Finally, under his organization, China successfully completed a major scientific and technological breakthrough of "two bombs and one satellite", adding necessary sharp weapons to China's national defense forces.
In 1964, Zhang Aiping again served as the leader of the surface-to-surface missile research group, responsible for the construction of the missile unit, proposed the establishment of the Second Artillery Unit, and personally selected the site for the deployment of the troops, realizing the establishment of our army's nuclear missile force.
In the political storm that swept the country in 1966, Zhang Aiping was also greatly affected, and even her left leg was tortured into a disability.
However, he did not forget the glorious mission of a Communist Party member, and after being rehabilitated, he threw himself into missile research, serving as the director of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and conducting research on high-end military equipment such as intercontinental missiles and communication satellites.
In 1980, under the command of Zhang Aiping, China successfully launched the first intercontinental missile. It can be said that China's military can have a place in the world, and it is inseparable from the great contribution of General Zhang Aiping. He was a giant of China's military industry.
Zhang Aiping not only invested a lot of energy in the research of military equipment, but also paid great attention to the modernization of the army. He agreed with Deng Xiaoping's concept of governing the country by enriching the country and strengthening the army; while promoting economic development, he carried out modernization and reform of the army, and led the construction of the mechanized group army.
During his concurrent term as Minister of National Defense, he actively promoted military diplomacy and military science and technology exchange activities, so that army building gradually kept pace with the development of the times.
In 1988, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star first class for his series of meritorious deeds, and in July 2003, the revolutionary predecessor who had struggled all his life for China's defense industry died in Beijing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > and wife met in revolutionary work and walked through life with each other</h1>
General Zhang Aiping not only made great contributions to national defense construction, but his four children have also made extraordinary achievements and have become the pillars of the country, all of which are inseparable from the strict education of Zhang Aiping and his wife.
Zhang Aiping's wife, Li Youlan, is the daughter of patriotic entrepreneur Li Shanxiang, and although she was born in a wealthy family, she is a new-age woman who cares about the world. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, she saw that the Communist Party was sincerely calling for the peril of the nation, and she had the idea of going to Yan'an to study and visit.
She first came to the Eighth Route Army's office in Wuhan, where she met Zhang Aiping, who was assisting Zhou Enlai in the office at the time, because Zhou Enlai was busy with work and had no time to meet these young people, so Zhang Aiping wanted to find a reason to let them go back.
However, Li Youlan and his party, who were eager to see Zhou Enlai, stubbornly saw it, and waited until Zhou Enlai came out to meet them in the evening, which left a deep impression on Zhang Aiping.
After that, Li Youlan was assigned to work in the Nanchang office of the Eighth Route Army, and grew up rapidly in his work, and in 1941, Zhang Aiping attended the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission of the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, at which he talked about various policies.
However, because it was in the period of war, the generals of the New Fourth Army who attended the meeting did not record the contents of the speech. Who knew that the next day, a heroic female warrior knocked on the door of Zhang Aiping's office, and she placed a stack of manuscript papers on Zhang Aiping's desk, which was actually the content of Zhang Aiping's speech the day before yesterday.
It turned out that Li Youlan was the stenographer of the meeting, and she not only recorded the content of the meeting in its entirety, but also made a detailed analysis. Through exchanges, Zhang Aiping also learned that Li Youlan was one of the young people waiting for Zhou Enlai in the Wuhan office at that time, which narrowed the distance between the two people.
In the course of the 16-day meeting, Li Youlan and Zhang Aiping cooperated with tacit understanding, not only successfully completed the work of the meeting, but also left a detailed written record, leaving a guiding document for future work.
In the process of getting along, Zhang Aiping also developed a good feeling for Li Youlan, a talented female warrior. Soon, Zhang Aiping, who had always dared to fight and rush, expressed her love to Li Youlan. Finally, under the auspices of Mr. Chen Yi, they became a marriage partner in 1942 and spent more than 60 years of loving time together.
In 2003, after the death of General Zhang Aiping, Li Youlan's body was not as good as a day, but she was very satisfied with life, and in her later years she once said that her most important choice in this life was two things, one was to join the Communist Party of China, and the other was to marry General Zhang Aiping.
In life, Li Youlan is also very optimistic, she also signed a will before her death, hoping that when the end of her life comes, she will not carry out rescue and let herself leave this world quietly. In 2012, Li Youlan was seriously ill, and everyone respected her last wish and let the old man leave in peace.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > four children have achieved remarkable results and are all national leaders</h1>
In the life of Zhang Aiping and Li Youlan's love, they have four love crystals, they are Zhang Xiang, Zhang Sheng, Zhang Pin, and their daughter Zhang Zhikai.
From the years of the revolutionary war to the period of peaceful construction, although the external environment has undergone tremendous changes. But in terms of family education, Zhang Aiping and his wife have always demanded their children with strict standards. This has enabled their children to maintain a modest and cautious attitude, and it has inherited Zhang Aiping's down-to-earth and simple character, so that they have taken one step at a time on the road of life and walked out of their own glorious footprints.
Their eldest son, Zhang Xiang, was born in 1943, when the anti-Japanese war was raging, when Zhang Aiping was directing the battle on the battlefield, Li Youlan had to return to his hometown of Ningbo, Zhejiang, Zhang Xiang grew up in his grandmother's house from an early age, and it was not until he was six years old that he saw his father for the first time.
After graduating from high school, he entered the Kazakh military industry, and in 1974, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Second Artillery Corps, working in the electronic equipment department. He was diligent in his work and made many contributions to national defense construction, and in 2001, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general for his outstanding performance, and together with General Zhang Aiping, he became a famous father and son general.
The second son, Zhang Sheng, was born at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, joined the People's Liberation Army in 1964 and served as the director of the Campaign Bureau of the PLA General Staff in the 1980s. He not only had considerable achievements in the military, but also inherited the literary talents of Zhang Aiping and his wife well, and made considerable achievements in literary creation.
Based on Zhang Aiping's experience, he once published a book entitled "Coming from War: A Dialogue Between Two Generations of Soldiers", an all-round talent who can write and fight, and retired in 1994 with the rank of colonel.
The youngest son, Zhang Pin, was born in 1947 during the Liberation War, joined the People's Liberation Army at an early age, and once served as the general manager of a company under the National Defense Industry Office. Although he was not as shiny as his two brothers, he also maintained a conscientious work style in his post, was a simple and capable soldier, and eventually reached the rank of colonel.
In 1949, their youngest daughter, Zhang Zhikai, was born, influenced by family style, Zhang Zhikai was versatile from an early age, once served as a member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and her husband was Yu Zhengsheng, a former member of the Politburo Standing Committee.
Yu Zhengsheng was born in 1945, his father was Yu Qiwei, who had been the minister of the First Machinery Industry, and the Yu family was a famous family of the Zhejiang generation, and is now also after the literary masters. His mother was Fan Jin, the sister of historian Fan Wenlan.
Yu Zhengsheng graduated from the Kazakh military industry in 1968 and entered the radio field, doing technical work for 16 years. He entered politics in 1984, first as the head of the China Welfare Foundation for the Disabled, in 2002 as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, in 2007 as the mayor of Shanghai, and in 2012 he was elected as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee, becoming a national leader at the state level.
In the course of his work, Yu Zhengsheng was strict with himself, and he served as mayor of Shanghai for five years, at a time when the commercial metropolis was in transition. Under his leadership, the Shanghai Municipal Government carried out drastic reforms, removed various constraints on economic development, and established a good foundation for the long-term and stable development of the city.
Under his leadership, Shanghai gradually became an international financial center and an international shipping center, and successfully held the Six-month Shanghai Century Expo in 2010.
As Zhang Aiping's son-in-law, Yu Zhengsheng has always taken doing more practical things and doing more things that are beneficial to the people as his code of conduct, and it is precisely because of this that he can gradually grow in his work and eventually become a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
General Zhang Aiping's life was a glorious life, and he not only made great contributions to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese nation, but also devoted a lot of painstaking efforts to the national defense construction of the People's Republic of China. Throughout his life, he always focused on the interests of the people.
His character of the masses has also deeply affected his children, so that under the guidance of their fathers' style, they are also diligent and sincere in their work, and make contributions to the strength of the country with their own ability.