How ＂awesome＂ are those strategic scientists in China？
On the evening of September 28th, the headline of "News Network" for nearly 18 minutes released a heavy signal.
A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.
What does a strategic scientist mean to China? How "awesome" are the strategic scientists in China?
They are the best example—
Qian Xuesen is a pioneer and outstanding representative of China’s aerospace science and technology. He has made pioneering contributions in the fields of aerodynamics, aviation engineering, jet propulsion, engineering cybernetics, physical mechanics and other technical sciences. He is the founder and advocate of the theoretical and applied research of modern mechanics and systems engineering in China.
At the beginning of 1956, Qian Xuesen put forward "Opinions on Establishing China’s National Defense Aviation Industry" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. In the same year, Qian Xuesen was appointed to set up the first rocket and missile research institution in China.
Qian Xuesen presided over the establishment of jet and rocket technology, participated in the development of short-range missiles, medium-short-range missiles and China’s first man-made earth satellite, directly led the "two-bomb combination" test of carrying atomic bombs with medium-short-range missiles, participated in the "two-bomb combination" test of carrying atomic bombs with short-range missiles in China, participated in the development plan of China’s first interstellar aviation, and developed and established disciplines such as engineering cybernetics and systematics in China …
Under the leadership of Qian Xuesen, the first atomic bomb exploded successfully in China on October 16th, 1964, the first hydrogen bomb exploded successfully in China on June 17th, 1967, and China’s first artificial satellite was launched successfully on April 24th, 1970.
Li Siguang is the pioneer and founder of modern geology in China, and has made great contributions to China’s geology, oil exploration and construction.
Li Siguang has discovered a large number of relics in Taihang Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain, Tianmu Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Huangshan Mountain, Yangtze River Basin and other places, and refuted the wrong conclusion of foreigners that there is no Quaternary glacier in China with scientific facts.
Li Siguang founded geomechanics, studied the phenomenon of crustal movement from the viewpoint of mechanics, explored the laws of geological movement and mineral distribution, and the characteristics of the new Cathaysian tectonic system, and analyzed the geological conditions in China, which proved that there must be oil on the land of China, theoretically overturned the conclusion that China was poor in oil, and affirmed that China had good oil storage conditions. In 1956, he personally presided over the oil survey and exploration. In a short time, he successively discovered Daqing, Shengli, Dagang, North China, Jianghan and other oil fields, which made an indelible contribution to China’s efforts to get rid of the "poor oil" hat.
Huang Danian, a famous geophysicist, has made a series of important scientific and technological achievements in the field of aviation geophysics, filled many domestic technical gaps and made outstanding contributions to the exploration of deep resources and the construction of national defense security in China.
"As long as the country needs it, I will do it! There is nothing to say. "
After returning to China for seven years, Huang Danian led his team to break through various technical difficulties. In the project of aviation mobile platform detection technology and equipment, it took five years to complete the journey that western developed countries have traveled for more than 20 years. In the research and development of sophisticated gravity gradiometer, the speed of research and development in China has been shortened by at least 10 years compared with that in the world in terms of data acquisition ability and accuracy, while the algorithm has reached the international level.
More than four years after Huang Danian’s death, according to the strategic plan designed before his death, the team of Huang Danian has never forgotten his mission and worked hard to complete its unfinished business: around the national strategic plan of deep sea, deep space and deep ground, the team of mobile platform exploration center has carried out key research and development in many directions, such as the development of intelligent heavy-load geophysical special UAV platform, the development of airborne gravity gradiometer and the development of integrated geophysical data software platform for mobile platform, and achieved gratifying phased results.
Yuan Longping is a pioneer in the research and development of hybrid rice in China. He devoted his life to the research, application and popularization of hybrid rice technology, invented the "three-line method" indica hybrid rice, successfully studied the "two-line method" hybrid rice, and created the super hybrid rice technology system, which made outstanding contributions to China’s food security, agricultural scientific development and world food supply, and was known as the "father of hybrid rice".
In 1966, Yuan Longping published the paper "Male Infertility of Rice", which started the research of hybrid rice in China. In 1970, he discovered a wild rice with pollen abortion in Hainan, which opened a breakthrough in hybrid rice research.
In 1986, Yuan Longping formally put forward the strategy of hybrid rice breeding: from three-line method to two-line method, and then to one-line method, that is, the procedure developed from complex to simple but more efficient. After years of hard work, the two-line method was successful, which ensured China’s leading position in the field of hybrid rice research.
In April, 1979, at the International Symposium on Hybrid Rice, Yuan Longping read his paper "Hybrid Rice Breeding in China", and China passed on the successful experience of hybrid rice research to the world for the first time.
Since 1980s, Yuan Longping and his team have trained more than 14,000 technical talents of hybrid rice for nearly 80 developing countries through the international class of hybrid rice technical training. At present, more than 40 countries and regions around the world have achieved large-scale planting of hybrid rice, and constantly created high-yield records in the local area. The annual planting area of global hybrid rice reaches 7 million hectares, which is generally more than 20% higher than that of local rice.
On September 5th, 2021, the second-generation hybrid rice "Chaoyouqian" began on-site yield measurement and acceptance in Mengzi Demonstration Base of Yuan Longping Super Hybrid Rice, located in Caoba Town, mengzi city, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The final yield measurement result was 1107.5 kg per mu, and the average yield per mu of 100 mu was over 1100 kg for four consecutive years.
Sun Jiadong is one of the pioneers in China’s artificial satellite technology and deep space exploration technology. As the chief designer of the first phase of lunar exploration project, he has made outstanding contributions to China’s breakthrough in basic satellite technology, satellite return technology, geostationary orbit satellite launch and fixed-point technology, navigation satellite networking technology and deep space exploration technology.
Sun Jiadong is the technical director and chief designer of China’s first missile, the first artificial earth satellite, the first remote sensing exploration satellite and the first recoverable satellite, and the chief engineer of the second generation application satellites such as China communication satellite, meteorological satellite, resource exploration satellite and Beidou navigation satellite.
From studying aircraft design, developing missile weapons and starting a satellite business, Sun Jiadong closely linked his personal ideal with the destiny of the motherland, devoted himself to the space army with the ambition of "I will do it if the country needs it", and always took the space industry as a stage to serve the motherland. He particularly emphasized the need to persist in independent innovation: "When we are poor and white, we have no experts to rely on and no technology to learn from, so we can only rely on ourselves and innovate independently. Today’s young people engaged in aerospace must have the concept of independent innovation and master the right to speak of core technologies. "
Liu Yongtan, the founder of China’s new maritime radar system, has been devoted to the research of the new maritime radar system for nearly 40 years, which has filled the gap in this field in China and made the monitoring area of China sea area from less than 20% to full coverage.
Since 1980s, Liu Yongtan has insisted on independent research and development of new radar system, led the team to break the monopoly of foreign technology, and created a "golden eye" for the radar in the coastal areas of the motherland.
In 1989, the new radar experimental system was completed, and it took Chinese eight years to catch up with the western countries for twenty or thirty years.
In 2011, a new system radar with all-weather, all-weather and long-distance detection capability was successfully developed and put into practical application, which conquered the core technology in the international leading position. China has also become one of the few countries with this technology in the world.
Facing the country’s future offshore strategic needs, Liu Yongtan, an octogenarian, is still active in the front line of scientific research, continuing to lead the team in planning and implementing systematic research on offshore remote detection, and gradually developing independent innovations in distributed and miniaturized forward-looking technologies.
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Science knows no borders, but scientists have their motherland. Strategic scientists are not only the precious wealth of national development, but also the individual presentation of the country’s comprehensive strength. They are the "heavy weapon of the country" and are indispensable and irreplaceable.
"Adhere to the long-term vision, consciously discover and cultivate more high-level compound talents with the potential of strategic scientists, and form a growth echelon of strategic scientists."
The journey is long, only struggle.
Source: CCTV
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