At the end of 2011, an 87-year-old man who died in Beijing on February 26, 2011, was named "Moving China" Person of the Year, an old man named Zhu Guangya.
In his lifetime, Zhu Guangya has shouted earth-shattering "two voices": one voice shouted on the other side of the ocean. In 1949, when New China was founded, he resolutely chose to return to China after studying in the United States, and before returning to China, he took the lead in jointly writing an "Open Letter to Students Studying in the United States" with 51 students studying in the United States, calling on overseas students to return to China to participate in construction with heartfelt words. ”
Students, It is time for us to return to China to participate in the construction of the motherland. The construction of the motherland urgently needs us! The people's government has called us out again and again, and Beijing Radio has issued a call for students to return to China. The people's government is welcoming and entertaining overseas students who have returned to China. Students, the fathers and elders of the motherland have placed infinite hopes on us, what hesitation do we have? What else can be hesitated? What are we still doing here? Students, we all grew up in China, we have been educated for more than 20 years, we have never planted a grain of rice, we have not dug a single piece of coal. We all grew up supported by the blood and sweat of thousands of Chinese workers and peasants who worked all day. Now that they are eager for us, shouldn't we hurry back and dedicate our skills to the people of the motherland? Yes, it's time for us to hurry back. You may say that you have not learned enough, but you must "continue to enrich" and "continue to research" because "opportunities are rare". Friend! Learning is endless! We can't finish reading it for the rest of our lives. If you stay in the research environment here, I am afraid that you will never go back in your lifetime. Moreover, after returning to China, some are opportunities for learning, some are opportunities for research, and learning that meets the actual needs of the country is more practical and useful. If you stay here to drill the horns and learn something that is not realistic in China, after going back, you are disconnected from the actual situation and cannot be applied, and when the time comes, you will really regret it too late! Go back one day earlier, learn about China's actual political and economic situation one day earlier, understand the policies of the people's government one day earlier, participate in practical work one day earlier, and have one more day of opportunity to serve the people. Now the motherland needs talents in all aspects, and we can't be left alone! It is not bad at all, the motherland needs talents, and the motherland needs talents in all aspects. The working people of the motherland have turned over in the Great Revolution, they are freed from the shackles of feudalism, the exploitation of bureaucratic capital, the persecution of imperialism, and they have turned over and stood up! From now on, forty-five million peasants, workers, intellectuals and entrepreneurs will unite under the banner of anti-feudalism, anti-bureaucratic capital and anti-imperialism to work together to build a new China, a free and democratic China, a new China premised on the happiness of the workers and peasants, that is, the masses of the people. To accomplish this work, there are many hardships ahead, but we have full faith, we are moving towards the road full of bright future, and this responsibility for building a new China is for us to share. Students, the motherland is calling us, what are we hesitating about? What's the matter? We should go back right away. Students, listen! The motherland is calling to us, forty-five million fathers and brothers are calling to us, the glory of five thousand years is calling to us, and our people's government is calling to us! Go back! Let us go back and sprinkle our blood and sweat on the land of our motherland to irrigate the splendid flowers. We in China are going to come out, and our nation is no longer a nation that has been insulted! We've got up, let's go back and hurry up! The motherland is eagerly waiting for us! Editor's Note: Excerpt from "An Open Letter to Students Studying in the United States"
Zhu Guangya's other "voice" is not shouted out, but "fried"! On October 16, 1964, the first atomic bomb developed by china itself was successfully exploded, and he could not help but burst into tears as he looked at the mushroom cloud that jumped into the air. In less than three years, he and his colleagues have brought China into the era of hydrogen bombs. History records that from the atomic bomb to the hydrogen bomb, it took the United States 7 years and 3 months; the Soviet Union took 6 years and 3 months; and China only took 2 years and 8 months.
Zhu Guangya, who did earth-shattering things, was an anonymous celebrity for a long time, and foreigners first noticed him in the 1970s. At that time, in the Chinese news media, the names of Qian Xuesen and Zhu Guangya were always linked. The New York Times therefore published an article titled "The Man After Qian Xuesen."
Most people began to know that he knew him, it was he who was awarded the "Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Medal" together with the other 22 "Two Bombs and One Star" founders, and it was he who was named the 2011 Person of the Year who "Moved China".
Life is a big thing, he has done one thing in his life, but it is the most majestic force in the blood of new China, surging fiercely...
This is the award speech that touched the Chinese Organizing Committee to Zhu Guangya. "Only do one thing in your life", the original of this sentence is not someone else, it is Zhu Guangya himself. His exact words were: "This is the main thing I have done in my life - to engage in China's nuclear weapons." The first half of the sentence, calm, humble, understated; the second half of the sentence, majestic, heroic, qifeng protrusion.
In December 2004, the asteroid numbered 10388 was officially named "Zhu Guangya Star", Zhu Guangya passed away, but this star and his spirit will shine forever in the sky.
Academician Zhu Guangya is a native of Hubei and grew up in Wuhan. At present, Hubei and Wuhan are fighting a national defense war against the epidemic. In the past, scientists of the older generation, represented by Zhu Guangya and other founders of the "two bombs and one satellite," overcame many difficulties in the "one poor and two white" new China and successfully created two bombs and one satellite. Today, China, which has entered a new era, with the unity and full support of the people of the whole country, Wuhan will definitely be able to defeat the epidemic at an early date!