Source: Global Network
◎Xiao Yang
Sunny Taihang Mountains, the towering Zhengang Tower, there is such a mysterious place in the southwest suburbs of Beijing.
On December 9, 1957, in accordance with the orders of the Central Military Commission, our army's first comprehensive missile professional training institution, the Artillery Training Brigade of the People's Liberation Army, was officially established in Yungang outside Changxindian, Beijing. This is the earliest place where missiles were found in China, which is the location of the West Courtyard of the Third Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology of China. The curtain of the rocket and missile industry in New China has also opened.
History·Faith
1961, 2021. The wheels of history roll forward.
On September 1, 1961, the Third Branch of the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defense was officially established and officially became the Navigation Missile Research Institute. A group of revolutionary soldiers selected from the army, military academies, colleges and universities, and military factories came to Yungang from all over the motherland, playing the prelude to the exploration, progress, struggle and development of aerospace people on this mysterious land. The establishment of the Third Academy of Aerospace is a loud declaration of the Party Central Committee and the Chinese government's determination to break foreign blockades and independently develop the aerospace industry.
"Even if you are hungry and fight for your life, you have to get the missile out!" This is the common voice of the first generation of the Third Hospital people when the founding of the Academy. At the beginning of the business, it happened to be a three-year natural disaster in the country. During the development of the first shore missile "Sea Eagle 2", the deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations, the assistance experts were withdrawn, and the drawings and materials were taken away. The hard living and working conditions and the strict technical blockade not only did not make everyone retreat, but instead stimulated their high work enthusiasm. Soon, Liang Shoupan, the then chief designer, was inspired by the structure of the basketball and overcome the key technical bottleneck of the corrosion resistance of engine fuel tank materials in one fell swoop. The success of "Haiying 2" made Marshal Nie Rongzhen, then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, excited: "The People's Navy finally has its own missile weapons designed and manufactured!"
In the Third Academy, "Haiying 2" was called the "Striving Bomb". It aims to start a business in the Third Academy, the Navy's strength and the Chinese nation, and is determined to get rid of the "foreign crutches" and break out a path of independent missile development.
In October 1973, a group of scientific researchers from the Third Hospital conducted an experiment in the desert in the northwest corner of the Third Hospital. They buried the head of the missile's engine in the ground and conducted an ignition test with their ignition. Everyone stood on the ditch cliff a hundred meters away, staring nervously at the ignition. The experiment was successful. As soon as the burning flames went out, members of the experimental team ran over to measure the engine surface temperature, completely ignoring the toxic smoke. At that time, the missile was not officially launched. It was small in size and was a "black household", so it was affectionately called "Xiao Erhei" by researchers.
In 1984, when it appeared at the military parade for the 35th anniversary of the National Day, foreign guests exclaimed that it was "Chinese Flying Fish". "Chinese Flying Fish" is a method of "brick-in pot making picnics" that is used to conduct high-tech combustion and obtain test verification. It is under such primitive and simple conditions that scientific researchers have overcome many difficulties and written in practice to strengthen the military and serve the country through science and technology.
1991, the Gulf War broke out. The "Tomahawk" cruise missile made its first appearance, rushing thousands of miles and hitting precisely, shocking the world for a while. "We must also have our own cruise missile!" The central government made a firm statement. Immediately, a "national team" dominated by the Third Hospital quietly assembled, and the gate to develop a cruise missile was opened urgently. Academician Liu Yongcai, the chief engineer of the model, had a famous catchphrase, "Do it alive, and die." Despite experiencing difficulties, failures, and doubts, they still worked day and night until they created many of the best in the history of China's missile weapons development at that time. On October 1, 2009, China's cruise missile convoy solemnly sailed across Tiananmen Square and announced to the world that China has become a country that has developed its own cruise missiles after the United States and Russia. Through the clouds and mists of history, the Tiananmen Gate Tower, which has been standing for 600 years, has witnessed the humiliating scenes of the great powers showing their powers and stepping onto the Jinshui Bridge and passing through the door. The same ten-mile long street ushered in a prosperous scene after the founding of New China.
Multi-type equipment of the Third Hospital participated in the military parades for the 35th, 50th, 60th and 70th anniversary of the National Day, the 2015 September 3rd military parade, and the 2017 Zhurihe battlefield ordering troops, gloriously accepting the review of the Party and the people. The east wind blows strongly, the eagle strikes the sky, and the great power stands tall with its long sword, raising the spiritual backbone of hundreds of millions of Chinese people. The astronauts in the Third Hospital have indescribable pride, because this is their most exciting announcement to the world with their pioneering efforts.
There is a dream in my heart and a root under my feet. Over the past 60 years, because of the dream of serving the country with a strong army, the people of the Third Academy fought hard on the coast of the Bohai Sea deep in the desert, cheering and cheering when the dragon entered the water and long swords flowed into the air. They were ready to fight for foreign aid to be self-reliant, from imitation and modification to independent development, the Third Academy successfully completed the development tasks of more than 20 series of navigation missiles in accordance with the model development ideas of "basic type, serialization" and "exploring one generation, pre-research one generation, development one generation, and production one generation".
Change·Leap over
"You can't forget danger when you are safe, and you can't forget chaos when you are cured." The people of the Third Hospital always maintain a sense of crisis, seize the day and race against time. Looking back on the journey we have come, the 60 years that the Third Institute of Aerospace has been a struggle of tenacious struggle and facing difficulties. They understand that in the field of aerospace, they are facing great challenges and leaps in scientific and technological innovation, and protecting national prosperity and national rejuvenation. They can only lead changes and race against their opponents.
"Enterprise development, industries must be upgraded, and high-quality economic development must all rely on independent innovation." This is General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest hope and the original intention of the Third Hospital to implement the innovation-driven development strategy. Over the past 60 years, the Third Hospital has achieved brilliant achievements in many fields such as navigation missiles, aerospace flights, drones, underwater equipment, information equipment, etc., representing major special projects and key models, contributing "flying power" to my country's construction of a new generation of defense confrontation system.
Looking back at the development of China's navigation missile industry, it is a history of continuous transcendence and independent innovation. Seven national science and technology progress special prizes, 13 national science and technology progress first prizes, 10 national defense science and technology progress special prizes, and a total of more than 1,450 national and provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, all record the magnificent innovation process of the flight personnel. With the continuous efforts of the people of all generations, a beautiful report card has been handed over.
Started from tracing and translating foreign languages, and used "domestic methods" to complete the "Xiao Erhei" experiment. Whether it is a simple laboratory or a deserted mountain in Yungang, the spark of scientific and technological innovation is ignited. The more difficult it is, the more ignited the determination and courage of the people of the Third Hospital to surpass themselves. The Third Academy has been planning to create "high-quality generation, leading generation, raiding generation, and surpassing generation" weapons and equipment, promoting the accelerated development of strategic, cutting-edge and disruptive technologies, and achieving rapid improvement in combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment; under the guidance of a package of innovation and reform policies, the Third Academy's cutting-edge and disruptive technologies and the application of results have been continuously revealed: a certain type of missile has won consecutive battles after going through tortuous tests, occupying a place in new fields; the new generation of the young innovation team of the weapon system of the new generation has solved and exceeded more than 40 major key technologies, and has developed 4 core products. The international indicators lead the internationally, focusing on the core technology fields such as guidance control, advanced power, and inertial technology, and actively deploying 5 national-level scientific and technological innovation platforms; focusing on cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, new power, applied mathematics, and advanced materials, and jointly building dozens of joint innovation centers with domestic advantageous universities and institutes, carrying out in-depth cooperation with more than 50 academician teams, and jointly demonstrating and establishing more than 20 major projects...
ignited a new engine of scientific and technological innovation, and reform is an indispensable ignition system. In the past five years, the Third Academy has carried out internal management changes, strengthened scientific and technological innovation and capital operation management, and formed the three new areas of information equipment, underwater equipment, magnetic levitation and electromagnetic promotion through the "three innovations", promoted the construction of an innovation institute with open synergistic genes, and allocated resources for strategic emerging industries.
The Third Academy is committed to independent innovation in core technologies. In addition to innovation and expansion in the military field, it promotes the transformation and upgrading of the civilian industry and strives to promote the research, development, cultivation and industrialization of major industrial projects.
plays its advantages in new materials, drones, advanced power, intelligent sensing systems and applications, intelligent manufacturing and intelligent robots, intelligent information and network security industry, additive manufacturing, and many technologies have become "domestic firsts" to achieve technological leap; a number of high-quality "specialized and innovative" products represented by subsea pipeline magnetic leakage detectors, oilfield drilling rotary guide systems, etc., break through the "bottleneck" technology, break the monopoly, and play an important role in key areas of national economy and people's livelihood...
Through the development practice of the Third Academy, it has proved that as long as we focus on independent innovation and original innovation in national defense science and technology, and accelerate the formation of strong scientific and technological research capabilities and a vibrant innovation ecosystem, we will definitely be able to firmly grasp the initiative in development.
Development ·Beyond
In the early 1980s, reform and opening up entered the fast lane, and the journey of civil industry development of the Third Hospital began. The Third Academy established the development strategy of "military-oriented, military-civilian integration, and civilian development" and vigorously developed the civilian industry. From a single flagship product to building tens of billions of industries today, the Third Hospital has embarked on a road of rapid and stable development in accordance with the principle of "serving national strategies, serving national defense construction, and serving national economy and people's livelihood".
starts and taxies, the nose is raised and penetrates into the sky... On May 5, 2017, the first C919 large passenger plane made its first flight under the gaze of attention. The rear section of the rear fuselage of the aircraft was developed and delivered by the Aerospace Haiying (Zhenjiang) Special Materials Co., Ltd., the 306th Institute of the Third Academy. In order to "cross-border" aviation field from aerospace, the Third Academy established Haiying Special Materials Company in Zhenjiang in 2011. More than 80 scientific research backbones rushed from Beijing to Zhenjiang in three batches, starting a self-reliance struggle in this new and unfamiliar environment.
The people of the Third Academy not only pursue the dream of the blue sky, but also explore commercial aerospace. The Third Hospital has built a space-based network ground service platform, independently developed my country's first constellation measurement and transportation software, and joined hands with Tencent Cloud to launch a satellite-as-a-service industry alliance. The alliance will open up the technical architecture of satellite communication, navigation, remote sensing, monitoring, operation and attitude control, and show its strength on the commercial aerospace stage.
The Third Hospital's industrial development has blossomed in multiple places, focusing on the five major development directions of aerospace equipment, intelligent systems, advanced manufacturing, information technology, and commercial aerospace, and building a key industry with "advanced materials, power industry, inertial control industry, intelligent robots, and smart industry". It incubated and cultivated strategic emerging industries such as high-speed magnetic levitation and electromagnetic propulsion, satellite operation, additive manufacturing, and quantum sensing, creating industrial clusters and hidden champion products, which strongly supports the continuous growth of the economic scale of the Third Hospital and serves the national economy and people's livelihood.
On November 1, 2016, on the first day of the 11th Zhuhai Air Show, the chief teachers of the Third Hospital were very busy and received more than a dozen delegations in one day. Passionate people and "excited" flashes kept watching the CM302 missile. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the layout of international trade products of the Third Academy was initially formed, marketing made pioneering breakthroughs, and international popularity continued to increase: the supersonic anti-ship missile CM302, which made its first appearance at the Zhuhai Air Show, shining; the WJ-600 drone made its debut in a certain country's National Day parade, attracting widespread attention from abroad; the C802A missile became famous overseas, further consolidating the status of the Third Academy as a star maritime defense weapon.
"IEE Company is becoming the fulcrum and highlight of China-Luluk cooperation." On September 10, 2019, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference delegation led by Yang Chuantang, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, commented in this way when conducting a survey at the Luxembourg headquarters of the IEE Company affiliated to the Third Academy.
In the same year, at the second China International Import Expo, the intelligent opening system, anti-trail detection, occupant classification system, occupant detection sensor-front and rear seats, surface heating, and battery management systems developed by IEE Company of the Third Hospital were also unveiled, which received high attention and praise from domestic and foreign customers; at the Hannover Industrial Expo, the Third Hospital AC Company held a special promotion event for intelligent manufacturing service solutions at the group company booth, further promoting intelligent manufacturing service solutions to the international market.
In recent years, the Third Academy has promoted the development of various international businesses with a more open attitude, and the internationalization level has been significantly improved. It has achieved great results in the fields of high-end equipment export, international capital operation, international economic and technological cooperation, and has helped the motherland and countries along the "Belt and Road" to connect the path of common prosperity.
The "transcendence" sculpture standing outside the courtyard building, its shape looks like a navigation missile that is about to be launched from a distance, a sharp sword piercing the blue sky, and a great roc flying with wings flapping its wings from a distance. This sculpture, taken from the shape of the phoenix, is engraved on the base of "Unity, Forgetting, Hard Working, Scientific, Practice, Dare to Be First-class". The sixteen-character "Flying Spirit" is becoming more profound and timeless under the imprint of time.
Original Aspiration·Real Color
1921 The red boat set sail, and the century-old party has been determined to make great achievements in the Chinese nation for thousands of years. It has experienced magnificent times and is in its prime. In 1961, China's aviation industry has been striving for progress under the leadership of the Party, and is still a young man when he returns. Looking back at the 60-year development process, people can’t help but ask how the Third Hospital has achieved today’s achievements from weak to strong? When he was poor and left alone, he had no reason to move forward slowly, so he could only "save the day" and "work hard".
Heroes are heroes who are strong and powerful and powerful. In the autumn of a certain year, the model test bomb entered the site. Since I could not apply for a special train, if I wanted to go to the test base, I could only drag seven or eight of my own carriages onto the freight train heading west. The entourage was on duty 24 hours a day. The purpose was to take care of the materials transported, and the second was to be ready to transfer the carriages to other trains at any time. At a small station in Gansu Province, trucks have to take different routes. The carriages are unloaded on the platform and must be transferred to another train. However, the two trains are not on the same track. The small station has limited resources and there are no extra locomotives to assist in the transfer. Time is urgent, and the test team members made an amazing move - "pushing the train". So, on the Gobi Station, which was filled with yellow and shady, a shocking picture appeared: more than a dozen "weak scholars" shouted neatly, took steady steps, and pushed the carriages weighing more than ten tons slowly forward... Looking back, those firm figures were strong beliefs and wills gathered into an indomitable torrent of steel. This strong belief and will is the mission of the people of the Third Academy: to strengthen the military through science and technology and serve the country in aerospace.
is born at the right time. The great era calls for a great spirit, and a noble cause needs role models to lead. Over the 60 years, glorious names shine with the loyalty of generations of flight workers. Because the dazzling Japanese bunkers on campus ignited a small heart for the country, Huang Ruisong, a member of the Party and Feihang, often encouraged everyone to "as long as things are done by man, there will be great potential"; when applying for the college entrance examination, Zhu Kun, the chief engineer of the model written by Tsinghua under Beihang, fought repeatedly and fought hard to win; from Yungang, west of Beijing to Dagang, Zhenjiang, Gao Zhiqiang, secretary of the Haiying Special Materials Party Branch, spent ten years of time to pioneer the dream of a large aircraft, and wrote a legend in the aviation field. They all have a common identity, that is, Communist Party members... As of September 2021, there were 11,186 party members in the Third Academy, 429 party branches, one branch is a fortress, and one party member is a flag. They follow orders and act upon orders, laying out the most beautiful picture of the aviation career.
The development history of the Third Academy is a history of upholding the leadership of the Party and strengthening Party building. As the main force in the construction of a space power and the construction of national defense weapons and equipment, red is the brightest background color of China's Aerospace, and the red gene has always been the root of the aerospace industry.
60 years ago, young scientific and technological workers under the dim kerosene lamp learned the party's theory; now, the Party Committee of the Academy and party organizations at all levels insist on using the Party's innovative theories to arm their minds, guide their practice, and promote their work, and regard learning, understanding, and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the primary political task, and promote the Party's innovative theories into the workshop and team. The flying people move forward under the banner of the Party, and the spark of ideals and beliefs continues from generation to generation.
In the early days of the founding of the Academy, Yu Wen, a political commissar of the Third Academy, said to the newly-employed astronauts in the first class of the admission education: "The work you are engaged in is a job we have never done before. The career we are engaged in is unprecedented. This requires you to be absolutely loyal to the Party, the motherland, and the cause. The work we are engaged in cannot tell your parents, and the wife and children cannot tell your wife and children." Today's flight attendants hold the party's flag higher and more steadily, and strengthen party building in an all-round way.All cadres and staff firmly establish the "four consciousnesses", firm up the "four self-confidences", and resolutely implement the "two safeguards". The two-level party committees set the direction, manage the overall situation, and promote implementation, and achieve high-quality development of the Third Hospital with high standards, strict requirements and conscious actions, and transform the original pursuit into a vivid practice of fulfilling the first responsibility of strengthening the military, actively serving the national strategy, serving national defense construction, and serving the national economy and people's livelihood.
0 break through obstacles and win over obstacles again and again, the root lies in faith. A series of touching stories vividly interpret the eternal value of the people of the Third Academy of Sciences loving the Party and serving the country and working hard. "Success does not have to be with me, success must have me." Don't forget your original aspiration and always maintain your true nature, and the people of the Third Academy of Sciences will not forget the red bloodline. The Party’s mass line education and practice activities, the special education and rectification of the “Three Stricts and Three Realities”, the learning and education of “Two Studies and One Practice”, the theme education of “Never Forget the Original Intention and Keep the Mission in Mind”, the learning and education of Party History... The cadres and staff of the Third Academy insist on drawing wisdom and strength from the century-old Party history. This fertile soil watered by the original aspiration of faith has become an important center for national defense weapons and equipment, and is full of vitality.
In September 1982, the Third Hospital established the first field test team party organization - the temporary party branch of the Yingshou No. 8 Flight Test Team. The establishment of the temporary party branch and temporary party committee of the test team has achieved the goal of extending the strength of the Party Workers and League organizations of the Third Hospital to the front line of major projects, major projects and shooting range testing. From the "five everything" of "all around the scientific research and production center, everything serves the scientific research and production center, everything obeys the scientific research and production center, everything is beneficial to the scientific research and production center, everything is for the scientific research and production center", to the "double guarantee system" of "propaganda, education, and ideological mobilization guarantee system" and "service and promotion guarantee system", to the promotion of the "three-heart project" with the connotation of "unifying people's hearts, inspiring people's hearts, and stabilizing people's hearts", the Third Academy has continuously improved the ideological guarantee system after 60 years of development. Wherever there is a task, the party organization will be built, and wherever the team goes, the party's work will be carried out, and the party's work will be carried out, giving full play to the joint efforts of the Party's discipline and labor group to jointly ensure the high-quality completion of tasks.
The country is established by talent, the politics is governed by talent, and the industry is prosperous by talent. The Third Academy has always integrated talent work into the central work, vigorously implemented the strategy of strengthening the enterprise with talents, and effectively improved the capabilities and qualities of the three teams of management, technology and skilled talents. Over the past 60 years, the Third Academy has successively produced 9 academicians from the two academies, with 15 national experts represented by national-level young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, 10,000 talent projects, 10,000 talent plans, and central-connected experts, and more than 140 high-skilled talents represented by the China Skills Award, national technical experts, and aerospace technology experts. So far, a total of 488 people have enjoyed special government allowances from the State Council. He has won more than 1,500 national, provincial and ministerial scientific and technological awards.
Astronauts sharpen swords, and swords also sharpen talents. The Third Academy has vigorously implemented the "Flying Aviation Talent Relay Plan" around the three teams of management, technology and skilled talents. It has grown from a deputy director of the technical department to a main leader of the unit's leadership team, from a deputy director designer to a chief teacher and a national expert, and from a junior skilled worker to a national technical expert. It has sincerely cared for, cared for, and achieved talents, truly leveraging its intellectual advantages, and truly "retaining treatment, retaining career, and retaining emotions."
60 years, the years have passed, and the flight is in full bloom. From protecting the blue sea border of the motherland to building a great power for the country to defend peace, after a long period of hardship and training, China's aviation industry has been continuously developing, growing, innovating and surpassing, and standing at a new starting point, the aviation people will continue to build a world-class aviation technology research institute on the journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and strive forward bravely.
