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Today's "Struggle for a Hundred Years, Starting a New Journey, Counting Popular Characters", we want to tell the story of Mao Yisheng, the father of China's modern bridges.
Mao Yisheng, born in 1896 in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, led the construction of the Qiantang River Bridge in the 1930s, which was the first double-decker railway and highway dual-purpose bridge designed and built by china. However, shortly after the completion of the project, in order to block the Japanese attack, Mao Yisheng personally blew up this bridge full of painstaking efforts, and only after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War did he overcome many difficulties to repair the bridge.
After the founding of New China, Mao Yisheng presided over the construction of China's first bridge across the Yangtze River, the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, and he studied, built, and wrote bridges all his life, and presided over the compilation of many works such as "The History of China's Ancient Bridge Technology". In October 1987, Mao Yisheng gloriously joined the Communist Party of China. He died on November 12, 1989.
Sun Yongfu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: At that time, when Mao Lao was repairing the Qiantang River Bridge, the technical level of our country was very low, but he dared to think and dare to do it, use new technology to overcome this difficulty, and dare to innovate.
(Edited by Dani Wang)