Beijing, 8 Mar (Xinhua) -- On the road to strengthening the army, "half of the sky" has never been absent -- the time of the two sessions of the military's female deputies
Xinhua News Agency reporters Fan Yongqiang, Mei Changwei and Wang Dongming
They are female deputies who "stand up to half the sky", and they are female soldiers who play a special role on the road to a strong army – there are 34 female delegates from the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force who participated in the first session of the 13th National People's Congress. Zhang Xiao, Wang Yaping, Cheng Cheng, Zhang Mingzhu, and Wang Na, from different branches of the military and different fields, write the same wonderful and beautiful youth.
Fighter pilot Zhang Xiao: The new era is a good era for achieving dreams
↑On March 7, Zhang Xiao held a discussion with other delegates at a group meeting. Photo by Li Yiye
"On the road to a strong army, female soldiers have never been absent as 'half the sky.'" In the view of Zhang Xiao, a deputy to the National People's Congress and pilot of a fighter plane of a certain brigade of the Eastern Theater Air Force, the special advantages of female servicemen, such as patience, delicacy, gentleness, and tenacity, can play an important role in training and the execution of tasks.
At that time, Zhang Xiao underwent layers of tests from hundreds of thousands of people, and finally stood out as one of the first 16 female fighter pilots in China.
Looking back on the tremendous changes that have taken place in the army in the past five years, Zhang Xiao feels most deeply that the intensity and difficulty of actual combat training have increased significantly: "Cross-regional exercises, free air combat, and systematic confrontation have become the norm, which was unimaginable before. ”
What makes Zhang Xiao doubly proud is that she, like the male pilot, has "not left a single one behind" in all the difficult training subjects and combat alert patrol tasks.
Zhang Xiao's dream is to fly China's best fighter jets, including the J-20 and carrier-based aircraft. She said that the new era is a good era to achieve dreams, "I believe that in the future, the Chinese military will train more outstanding female commanders, female pilots, female captains."
Astronaut Wang Yaping: Looking forward to flying into space again
↑On March 5, Wang Yaping was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. Photo by Li Yiye
At the two sessions of the National People's Congress this year, the figure of female astronaut Wang Yaping was particularly eye-catching.
"It is my dream to make the space industry serve the society." On March 5, at the first representative passage before the opening of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, Wang Yaping said that the 40-minute space lecture in 2013 made her very memorable, "The cause of manned spaceflight requires the struggle of generations of people, and I am willing to be a space teacher in the hearts of children forever."
Since the space course in 2013, Wang Yaping has devoted all his energy to study and training, and fully prepared for the Mission of the Chinese Space Station.
"The space environment will not change because of women, and space training will not lower the threshold because of gender." In the face of more complex and arduous space station missions in the future, Wang Yaping said that the flight tasks that male astronauts can complete, and I believe that female astronauts can also successfully complete them.
"I'm looking forward to being able to fly into space again." Wang Yaping told reporters that in addition to actively preparing for the space station mission, she is also full of expectations for the future to be able to land on the moon one day.
Cheng Cheng, squadron leader of the honor guard brigade: hope to crack the "bottleneck" of female soldiers' career development
↑On March 7, Cheng Cheng held discussions with other delegates at a group meeting. Photo by Li Yiye
Cheng Cheng, commander of the female soldier squadron of the PEOPLE's Liberation Army Honor Guard Brigade, put forward suggestions on broadening the channels for female soldiers' career development.
From an ordinary female soldier who became one of the first female honor guards in the history of the People's Liberation Army through unremitting struggle, Cheng Cheng himself is a prominent representative of the outstanding female soldiers of the contemporary era.
Since the establishment of the female soldier squadron of the honor guard brigade in early 2014, Cheng Cheng has led the honor guard women to perform hundreds of foreign affairs ceremonies, military parades, military diplomacy and other tasks, each of which has been outstanding.
"How to better 'lift up half the sky' for the strong military industry in the new era has always been a problem I think about." Cheng Cheng told reporters that in reality, plagued by practical problems in duty, training, marriage and childbirth, etc., female soldiers will generally encounter "bottleneck" problems such as narrow professional fields and limited personal development in the process of career development.
"Optimize the growth platform, strengthen preferential treatment, and let female military personnel get more opportunities to improve their ability to serve." Cheng Cheng said, "I believe that as national defense and army building enter a new era, more and more outstanding women will devote themselves to the front line of strengthening the army and rejuvenating the army." ”
Zhang Mingzhu, non-commissioned officer of the Liaoning warship: I sincerely feel the greatness of the motherland
A clean and neat short hair made Zhang Mingzhu, the non-commissioned officer of a certain department of the Liaoning warship, look more heroic and sassy.
After graduating from college in 2011, she confessed that she had three "unexpected": when she became a soldier in the navy, she did not expect to be selected to be selected for the aircraft carrier, and when she got on the aircraft carrier, she did not expect that she would become the chief of the department, and when she became the chief of the non-commissioned officer, she did not expect that she would be elected to the National People's Congress.
Speaking of the government work report, Zhang Mingzhu said: "Seeing that the high-speed rail network, sharing economy, mobile payment, etc. that we are enjoying around us are all written into the government work report, I sincerely feel the greatness of the motherland. ”
Zhang Mingzhu has a personal experience of the new progress made in the work of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan mentioned in the government work report.
Last year, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the Liaoning warship visited Hong Kong. Zhang Mingzhu was particularly touched by the strong patriotic feelings displayed by thousands of Hong Kong citizens when they visited the ship. She recalled that it was raining heavily outside, and it did not weaken the enthusiasm of Hong Kong compatriots to spontaneously queue up to the deck, "At that moment, my pride and sense of responsibility as a Chinese soldier sprang up."
Wang Na, a first-class meritorious hero: Let the military family relieve their worries
Wang Na, a first-class meritorious officer and staff officer of the Military Transportation Academy, is an "old representative" who has been re-elected for two consecutive terms. During the previous term of office, she put forward a number of research reports on supporting mass entrepreneurship and innovation, which were adopted by relevant departments and promoted the implementation of some policy measures.
Wang Na set the focus of this year's research on how to let the separated military families in the two places better solve their worries.
"Military personnel need to pay sacrifices that are difficult for ordinary people to understand, and military families have many practical difficulties that need to be solved in terms of family employment, children's schooling, and separation between the two places." Wang Na called for the establishment of a social security system for military families as soon as possible, so as to relieve the worries of military personnel and make military personnel truly a profession respected by society.
Editor: Zhang Jiaoying