This is the deep love of the Party’s core, the people’s leader, and the commander of the army for the people’s army and the high praise for the role model of strengthening the army. All officers and soldiers of the army feel honored and inspired. They will surely advance into the

Editor's note

On July 27, 2022, Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping personally wore medals and awarded certificates to the winners of the " August 1st Medal ". Heroes and models such as Du Fuguo , Qian Qihu , and Nie Haisheng . This is the deep love of the Party’s core, the people’s leader, and the commander of the army for the people’s army and the high praise for the role model of strengthening the army. All officers and soldiers of the army feel honored and inspired. They will surely advance into the new journey and make contributions to the new era with greater enthusiasm and motivation.

merits should be rewarded and military merits should be commended. Heroes and models who have won the "August 1 Medal", have loyal missions, brave and fearless mine-removal heroes, have protection engineering experts who strengthen the army in science and technology and cast shields for the country, and have heroic astronauts who are determined to serve the country and patrol space for three patrols. They keep in mind their sacred mission, persist in fighting and strengthening the army, do not fear difficulties, sacrifice and dedicate themselves to scientific research, bravely climb to the top, serve the country in aerospace, pursue dreams of space, and make outstanding contributions to the cause of strengthening the army in the new era. They are all benchmarks of the times for striving and hard work, and are ordinary heroes who are based on their own duties and work silently. Their great achievements will be recorded in history and their spiritual style will motivate the three armies.

Learn from heroes and models to gather strength to strengthen the army

——Advanced deeds of the winner of the "August 1st Medal"

0 The era is singing forward, and the heroes are passed down from their blood. As the People's Army celebrates its 95th anniversary, this newspaper publishes the advanced deeds of the winners of the "August 1st Medal". I hope that the officers and soldiers will take them as an example, keep in mind the expectations of President Xi, make achievements in the journey of strengthening the army, create extraordinary things in adhering to the ordinary, and make great achievements in the era of great potential, strive to create first-class achievements, strive to be a pioneer in the strong army, and strive to be a hero and model, and work tirelessly to achieve the Party’s goal of strengthening the army in the new era and build the People’s Army into a world-class army in all respects.

Du Fuguo A loyal and brave and fearless demining hero

Du Fuguo, male, Han nationality , from Meitan, Guizhou, born in November 1991, joined the army in December 2010, currently a first-level sergeant of a mine-sweeping and detonating brigade in the Southern Theater Command Army .

"You retreat, let me do it", six words are strong and strong, blocking danger with flesh and blood, even if you fall into the abyss. This is the award speech given by "Touching China" to Du Fuguo.

On October 11, 2018, at the minefield on the west side of Laoshan on Malipo County, Yunnan Province, Du Fuguo discovered an aggranate grenade during the mine-sweeping operation. He immediately asked the comrades in the same group to retreat and go forward alone to find out the situation. Suddenly, with a loud "boom", the grenade exploded. In the moment of life and death, he subconsciously turned toward his comrades, blocking the explosion shock wave and shrapnel, protecting his comrades with his body, and he lost his eyes and hands forever.

htmlDu Fuguo has three important choices in his military career in 12: the first time was to join the army and come to a border defense regiment in Yunnan. He could have always been an excellent border defense soldier, but he chose to participate in mine clearance; the second time was when he came to the mine clearance team, the captain found that his cooking skills were good and intended to make him a cook cook , but he chose to go to the front line to clear mine clearance; the third time was when he was in distress in mine clearance, he chose to let his comrades back.

Minderweepers walked through the "yin and yang path", passed the "gate of hell", and pulled out the "tiger's teeth", and were the closest people to the god of death in peacetime. Du Fuguo knew what his choices meant, but why did he remain unswerving?

answer is written in Du Fuguo's letter of request. In June 2015, he wrote in a letter of request to the company party branch: "Just as I joined the army five years ago, I was thinking about what kind of life was truly meaningful and valuable. The only criterion for measurement is what really did for the country... I felt that this is my mission, and a voice told me: I want to go to mine clearance!"

Faced with the life and death minefield, Du Fuguo worked hard to train mine clearance skills, and mastered more than 10 mine clearance methods in just 3 months, and obtained the "ticket" for mine clearance with excellent results. In the past three years, he has entered and exited the minefield more than 1,000 times, eliminated more than 2,400 landmines and explosives, and dealt with more than 20 dangerous situations of various types, realizing the transformation from a "border guard vanguard" to a "mine clearing expert".

Du Fuguo was in critical condition after being injured. His palms were blown away on the spot. His eyes were broken, the contents were overflowed, and the right eyeball fell off. The trauma area from the base of the thigh to the face reached more than 90%...

Du Fuguo was seriously injured and seriously disabled, which was a heavy blow to anyone, but Du Fuguo has a superhuman will, which is also a unique quality of a hero.

3 days and 3 nights and five major operations were performed in succession. Du Fuguo, who rushed out of the "gate of hell", recovered his consciousness and asked his comrades how he was. The first requirement was: "Hurry up my injury, I also have to go to clear mines!"

How to tell Du Fuguo the true injury, the army leaders and experts have formulated multiple psychological intervention plans for him. However, none of these solutions is useful. After learning about the real injury, Du Fuguo was silent for a few seconds, comforting the leader and the doctor with a trembling voice: "I understand, don't worry, I will become strong! I can't clear mines, but I can still tell people the story of clearing mines."

On July 31, 2019, President Xi Jinping hung a hero and model medal and awarded a certificate to Du Fuguo, and took a photo with him. He raised his broken arm and saluted the commander with a special military salute. He used this strong way to tell everyone that no matter when, he was a soldier and would run and pursue his dreams with a struggle.

Du Fuguo overcomes difficulties with amazing perseverance. Less than a month after the operation, he asked someone to help him get out of bed and walk; for one and a half months, he raised his elbows on the hospital bed to do plank support . He wants to run, and on the anti-gravity pedal, he runs 10 kilometers; he wants to write, use his residual limbs to practice with his special pen, stroke by stroke; he wants to broadcast, start with speaking and speaking, and learn word by word with teaching courseware...

With an optimistic and upward mentality and never giving up, Du Fuguo overcomes pain and incompleteness. He can dress, wash, fold quilts, open the door, run, walk with a blind stick, and eat with a robot.

"Roar! Rush forward, rush..." As the finish line approached, with the reminder of a comrade, Du Fuguo, wearing a training uniform, waved his broken arm and ran steadily on the playground, with crystal beads of sweat oozing out of his forehead. After crossing the finish line, he smiled happily like a child.

"Good evening, listeners, this is the Voice of the South Land. At 8 pm, accompany everyone in camouflage..." On March 8, 2020, the "Fuguo Read Good Books with You" series of radio programs was officially launched on the Southern Theater Command Army WeChat public account. In order to enhance the broadcast effect, Du Fuguo gave up the production method of others leading the reading, repeating the reading by himself, and editing later, and insisted on independent memorizing the full text.

In recent years, Du Fuguo has helped the once-fighted Malipo County fight with practical actions; he served as an off-campus counselor for Chongqing Special Education Center, bringing infinite light and strength to blind children.

In recent years, Du Fuguo has visited military and local units such as Peking University , Army Border and Coastal Defense College, and conducted more than 30 propaganda. Combined with his own growth experience, he talked about his original intention and insights, told the story of strengthening the army, spread the spirit of "let me come", and inspire more dream-chasing people in the new era to move forward bravely.

Qian Qihu, a protective engineering expert who strengthens the army in science and technology and casts shields for the country,

Qian Qihu, male, Han nationality, from Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, born in October 1937, joined the army in August 1954, former professor of the National Key Laboratory of Explosion Impact Disaster Prevention and Reduction of the School of Defense Engineering, the People's Liberation Army University of Science and Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Just after attending a project appraisal meeting, Academician Qian Qihu carried his suitcase and embarked on a business trip.

It is hard to imagine, this is the daily life of a man in his 80s. As the founder of modern protective engineering theory and the founder of the protective engineering discipline, Qian Qihu is still running like a "flying man in the air" at the age when many people have long retired. In such a life, he does not feel tired, but feels "living is fulfilling, fulfilling, and happy."

"What is the purpose of a person living?" This is the first revolutionary outlook on life education class that Qian Qihu received more than 60 years ago when he was studying at Harbin Military Engineering College .

Struggle for a long time and devote yourself to the dream of a strong country.Since joining the work, Qian Qihu has always adhered to his innocent feelings of loving the Party, serving the country, and strengthening the army. He fought in the front lines of projects such as the mountains, the Gobi desert, and border islands. He has made great contributions to the development of my country's protection projects and delivered his own life answer with practical actions: the needs of the country and my ideals.

The original intention is the eternal imprint engraved by the times in Qian Qihu's heart. In the early 1970s, a loud bang deep in the Gobi Desert, and a cloud of mushrooms rose up in the desert... When people cheered and celebrated, a group of scientific researchers in protective clothing quickly rushed into the nuclear explosion center to investigate the explosion site, and Qian Qihu was one of them.

That year, Qian Qihu was ordered to design the aircraft cave library protective door for the Air Force. In order to find out the problems existing in the original design plan, he went to the nuclear explosion test site to investigate and research.

After in-depth investigation and thinking, Qian Qihu boldly decided to use the just-rise finite unit method , but this involves a lot of engineering structure calculations.

At that time, there was a shortage of large-scale computer equipment in China. In order to find the most scientific solution, he traveled back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai, using the gaps between eating and sleeping with others during holidays to make the "time difference" to use the equipment.

Two years later, when he studied the protective door of the underground aircraft hole warehouse with the largest span and highest resistance in my country passed the results identification, he suffered from severe duodenal ulcers and gastric ulcers.

The people who are brave enough to climb never stop. Immediately afterwards, he struck while the iron was hot and began the research and development of "the application of the finite unit method in engineering structure calculation". Long-term fatigue caused hemorrhoids, but he still insisted on working for more than 12 hours a day. He was so painful that he dared not sit down, so he lay on the bed and wrote a monograph. Shortly after the monograph was published, it won the Major Science and Technology Achievement Award of the National Science and Technology Conference .

"All things in the world are mutually generated and restrained, and there must be a shield." At that time, our country was facing severe external threats. In Qian Qihu's view, if nuclear weapon is a sharp "spear" against hostile military forces, then the protection project is a solid "straight".

With the continuous update of reconnaissance methods and the emergence of high-tech weapons and precision guided weapons , protection projects are often "cannot hide or resist" in a highly transparent battlefield. In particular, the world's military powers have begun to develop precise guided drilling and ground bombs, posing a huge threat to protection projects.

"The 'spear' is upgraded, and our 'shield' must be upgraded in time." Faced with the protection problems of world-class national defense projects, Qian Qihu led his team to climb the peak of science and technology, established academic theory and technical systems from shallow burial projects to deep burial projects, from single projects to engineering system protection, from conventional resistance to ultra-high resistant protection, and formulated my country's first civil defense engineering protection standards, solving a series of key technical problems in engineering protection of nuclear weapons and conventional weapons. In 2019, Qian Qihu won the highest award in the field of science and technology in my country - the 2018 National Highest Science and Technology Award . The greatest thing about the division is to serve the country and the people. As a member of the expert group of major projects in many countries, Qian Qihu has put forward practical and major consultative suggestions on Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, Xiong'an New Area, South-to-North Water Diversion Project, West-East Gas Pipeline Project, and underground energy reserves. After retirement, he is still active at the forefront of national strategic protection projects, and actively provides suggestions for the construction of Sichuan-Tibet Railway and Bohai Bay Undersea Tunnel .

"Only a person can achieve something and demonstrate his value by closely linking his personal ideals with the needs of the party and the country and the future and destiny of the nation." When talking about his life journey, Qian Qihu's eyes revealed unswerving beliefs.

"Leave better opportunities to young people", this is Qian Qihu's educational philosophy. In 2009, he voluntarily gave up the opportunity to be nominated and recommended young scholar Feng Xiating to serve as the chairman of the International Society of Rock Mechanics: "The World Center for Rock Mechanics Research is in China. Feng Xiating is young and capable and dreamy." In the end, Feng Xiating became the only Chinese expert who has served as the president of the society so far.

"I have done so many topics in my life, but I feel that cultivating talents is always my biggest topic."When talking about the future, Qian Qihu is full of eager expectations for the emergence of talents.

For decades, a large number of outstanding talents trained by Qian Qihu have become the backbone of the field of protective engineering. In 2019, he donated all the 8 million yuan prize of the National Highest Science and Technology Award to poor students to help poor students realize their dream of going to school.

"Although I am over 80 years old, I always feel that there are still many things to do. Building an indestructible "underground steel Great Wall" for the motherland is my lifelong pursuit, and my career and happiness! "Qian Qihu said that in his lifetime he will continue to charge unremittingly on the road of forging shields for the country.

Nie Haisheng Hero astronauts who are determined to serve the country and patrol space for three times

Nie Haisheng, male, Han nationality, from Zaoyang, Hubei Province, born in September 1964, joined the army in June 1983, and is currently a special astronaut of the People's Liberation Army Astronauts Brigade.

In 1996, Nie Haisheng actively responded to the call of the Party and resolutely signed up for the astronaut selection, selected from more than 1,500 outstanding air force pilots and stood out from the top and became the first batch of astronauts in our country in 1998. For 24 years, he has always kept in mind the original intention of "departing for the motherland to space" Destiny, always maintain the military character of "obeying the call and choosing", insist on hard training and preparation at all times, and received the orders to fight three times, successfully completed the manned flight missions of Shenzhou VI , Shenzhou 10 , and Shenzhou 12 , and wrote infinite loyalty to the party with the magnificent voyage of hiking in space.

In October 2003, Shenzhou 5 manned flight mission, Nie Haisheng ranked in the first flight echelon, but passed by Feitian Dream. Face on the schedule He secretly made up his mind to continue working hard and never give up! Then, he raced against time to participate in the selection training, and almost never stepped out of Beijing Aerospace City . He did not sleep before 12 o'clock at night. He stayed in the simulation cabin for seven or eight hours, not even weekends and holidays. After countless trainings, he knew thousands of data well and mastered all flight procedures and operating procedures. In the critical stage of preparing for the mission, Nie Haisheng's mother suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma. He organized a special approval to go home to visit. He went back to work hard after only 3 days, and explained with his actions. "I would rather be ashamed of my family than my motherland." In the single assessment not long after, Nie Haisheng got a rare full score in the entire assessment and was selected into the Shenzhou VI crew with excellent results. On October 12, 2005, Nie Haisheng and the astronauts in the same crew set out on the snow and fought for the first time in space, achieving a major leap from "one person one day" to "multiple people and many days" space flight.

In 2011, Nie Haisheng was promoted to the rank of major general. At this time, he had already won many honors, but he cleared his achievements and hid his honors again and again, and participated in the selection of the crew. He often said: "Flying is my profession and my mission." Both generals and soldiers are honored by their mission. As long as I can still fly, I must be prepared for everything.” In June 2013, Nie Haisheng was honored to be selected as the commander of the Shenzhou 10 crew with his excellent qualities, rich experience and superb skills. He led two new comrades to the space again and manually controlled the Shenzhou 1 manned spacecraft to complete the rendezvous and docking. Astronauts in the same crew conducted space teaching, using the unique methods of astronauts to let young people across the country approach aerospace, understand aerospace, and love aerospace.

returned from flying twice, and his original intention was consistent. As the oldest Nie Haisheng in the astronaut team, under normal circumstances, human physiological functions are all In the decline, he used firm belief and extraordinary training to fight against the laws of nature, and participated in common training subjects like other young astronauts, challenging the same training difficulty. Nie Haisheng wore an underwater training suit of about 160 kilograms in deep water for more than 6 hours. He endured 8 times his own weight in the high-speed rotating centrifuge , and successfully completed more than 100 training items in eight categories focusing on the basic theory of space station , focusing on fault handling, and always maintained an excellent level in the skeletal metabolism, cardiopulmonary and cardiovascular functions of aerospace physiological functions.

In June 2021, 57-year-old Nie Haisheng entered space three times. Faced with the situation where the space station mission had a longer in-orbit flight time, greater difficulty in handling, and more challenges and tests, he and other comrades in the crew cooperated closely and operated carefully, successfully completed the autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking mission of the Shenzhou 12 manned spacecraft and Tianhe core cabin, and strictly organized two cumulative 13-hour space exit activities. In-orbit verified a series of key technologies such as astronauts' long-term residence, regeneration and maintenance, space material replenishment, and on-orbit maintenance, achieving the first Chinese entering their own space station for the first time, and winning a major victory in the first manned flight mission in the space station construction stage.

Nie Haisheng achieved the feat of flying three times in 24 years, becoming the first Chinese astronaut in orbit for 100 days, witnessing the glorious journey of China's manned space industry, and fulfilling his solemn promise of "focusing on flying only for the sky, and life only for the sky" with practical actions. Faced with the arduous and heavy tasks in the space station operation stage, he firmly stated, "My original intention is to go to space, and my mission is to complete the task successfully. As long as the motherland and the people need it, I will make all preparations without hesitation, accept the selection at any time, and go to space for the motherland."

(Photographed by Muruilin) ​​

Source: China Military Network-People's Liberation Army Daily