In Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia, there is a little girl named Pan Jing, whose birth seems to herald an extraordinary life journey. From an early age, she showed a talent for something like no other, especially her love of numbers and her interest in mental arithmetic.
When she was four years old, due to her parents' busy work, Pan Jing was sent to a full-day kindergarten. This seemingly ordinary decision became a turning point in her fate. In this kindergarten, children can choose from a wide variety of interest classes, and most of them are passionate about calligraphy, painting, puzzles, and basketball. However, Pan Jing only has a soft spot for mental arithmetic.
Her sensitivity to numbers and the speed of her calculations far surpass those of her peers, even to the amazement of her teachers. In one class, the teacher proposed a calculation problem that is difficult for a four-year-old child. Originally, the teacher did not expect much from the children in the audience. However, Pan Jing quickly calculated the correct answer, and the speed was astonishing. The teacher looked at her in amazement, secretly rejoicing in his heart, realizing that he had found a good seedling of mental arithmetic.
The teacher immediately contacted Pan Jing's parents to inform them of Pan Jing's excellent performance in mental arithmetic and advised them to support Pan Jing in further study. Pan Jing's parents were both happy and embarrassed, they didn't want to put Pan Jing under too much pressure, after all, she was still a young child. However, when they saw Pan Jing's love and talent for mental arithmetic, they decided to support her dream.
As a result, Pan Jing began to learn more systematic mental arithmetic. Her arithmetic skills are improving day by day, far surpassing her peers. In 2006, Mr. Ma Lixin led a small team including Pan Jing to participate in the 17th National Ethnic Minority Mental Arithmetic Competition, which was the first time that Pan Jing participated in the competition since learning mental arithmetic. Although most of the players she faced were middle school and college students, Pan Jing won the team second place with her own strength.
In 2007, Pan Jing met her second Bole on her professional path - Coach Wang Weida. Coach Wang is the president of the Chinese Abacus Association and the head coach of the Abacus team of the Military School of Economics. Through this competition, Coach Wang found Mr. Ma Lixin, hoping to select several members from his team to participate in the selection of the national team. Pan Jing was only six years old at the time, and Coach Wang did not initially shortlist her. However, Mr. Ma Lixin tried his best to fight for Pan Jing, because Pan Jing's talent was too outstanding, as if she was born for mental arithmetic.
Coach Wang has never seen a teacher who has such a high opinion of his students. In the end, when he saw Pan Jing's various awards, he also fell in love with talents, and Pan Jing's name appeared in the list of candidates.
Pan Jing knew that she was carrying the expectations of her parents and teachers, and she did not dare to slack off in the next few rounds of assessment. No matter how difficult the calculation problem is, she can easily deal with it, and the calculation speed and accuracy are far beyond others.
In the end, she was selected from the 17 finalists along with four other equally talented children. And she is also the youngest child among them. Seeing Pan Jing's outstanding performance, Coach Wang took ability greater than age as the starting point to fight for her opportunities. After layers of selection, six-year-old Pan Jing was successfully selected into the abacus team of the Military Economics Academy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
On November 29, 2007, Pan Jing's acceptance letter was mailed to her home. When her parents and teachers learned the news, they were both happy and proud of her. In this way, Pan Jing became the youngest soldier in the history of the Chinese army with her amazing talent and unremitting efforts.
Six-year-olds usually laugh and play in kindergarten, but Pan Jing has already entered the army and received an elite education. This seems like a fantasy to ordinary people, but it really happened to Pan Jing.
After entering the army, Pan Jing gave up her childhood. She devoted herself to the sea of mental arithmetic under the mode of militarized management. Her efforts will pay off.
In the next ten years, Pan Jing and her comrades-in-arms participated in dozens of international mental arithmetic competitions and won more than 180 awards. Her mental arithmetic team was also awarded the honorary title of Pioneer by the Ministry of Logistics of the Mainland. This award is not only a reward for her hard work, but also a sign of the country's growing strength.
In the future, Pan Jing will continue to create more impossibilities in her own field and continue to shine for the country's military industry. Her story inspires countless people to believe that if we have a dream and work hard to achieve it, we will be able to achieve our value.