With the approval of Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Central Military Commission will select and award the "August 1st Medal". In accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Military Commission, after nominations and recommendations by various departments of the Central Military Commission and the party committees of major units, the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission organized qualification reviews and assessments, and recently 23 nominees were produced: Du Fuguo, Qian Qihu, and Nie Haisheng. . The public announcement period is from June 27 to July 1, 2022.
Candidates for the "August 1st Medal"
- Du Fugu, male, Han nationality, from Meitan, Guizhou, born in November 1991, enlisted in the army in December 2010, currently serving as a first-class sergeant in a certain mine clearance and explosive disposal brigade of the army in the southern theater.
He is a demining hero who is loyal to his mission and brave and fearless. In June 2015, he took the initiative to participate in the China-Vietnam border mine clearance mission. He trained hard and mastered more than 10 mine clearance methods. He entered and exited the minefield more than 1,000 times in more than 3 years, cleared more than 2,400 landmines and explosives, and dealt with more than 20 dangerous situations of various types. rise. On October 11, 2018, while conducting demining operations at the Bazi minefield on the west side of Laoshan, Malipo County, Yunnan Province, he faced a weighted grenade that was partially exposed on the ground. He shouted to his comrades in the same group, "Stay back and let me do it." "When he was further investigating the situation, he suddenly encountered an explosion. At the moment of life and death, he threw himself to the side of his comrades, blocking the explosion shock wave and shrapnel. He lost his hands and eyes forever. After being injured, Du Fuguo underwent multiple surgeries, leaving nearly 70 scars all over his body, but he always maintained an optimistic attitude and high-spirited attitude. He insisted on practicing broadcasting every day, became an announcer on the WeChat official account of the Army in the war zone, and served as an off-campus counselor at the Chongqing Special Education Center. , has given more than 30 lectures to military and civilian units such as Peking University and Peking University, telling the story of building a strong military and inspiring more dream chasers in the new era to move forward bravely. He was awarded first-class honors 21 times, was named "Moving China Person of the Year 2018", and was commended as a national outstanding Communist Party member and a national self-improvement model. In 2019, he was awarded the honorary title of "Heroic Demining Soldier" by the Central Military Commission.
- Qian Qihu, male, Han nationality, from Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, born in October 1937, enlisted in the army in August 1954, former professor of the National Key Laboratory of Explosion Impact Disaster Prevention and Reduction, School of National Defense Engineering, University of Science and Technology of the PLA, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
He is a protection engineering expert who strengthens the army with science and technology and builds a shield for the country. He is the founder of modern protection engineering theory and the founder of the protection engineering discipline. In the 1960s, he graduated with honors from the Foreign Military Engineering College. With the firm belief of serving the party and serving the country, he returned to China and devoted himself to the construction of modern protection engineering. For more than 50 years, he has bravely climbed to the peak of science and technology, established academic theoretical and technical systems from shallow burial engineering to deep burial engineering protection, from single engineering to engineering system protection, from conventional resistance to ultra-high resistance protection, and formulated my country's first civil air defense project Protection standards, create my country's protection engineering talent training system, solve a series of key technical problems in the protection of nuclear weapons and conventional weapons engineering, and make great contributions to the development of my country's protection engineering. He won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award, etc., and won the national highest science and technology award . After retirement, he is still active at the forefront of the construction of national strategic protection projects, actively providing advice and suggestions for the construction of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway and the demonstration of the Bohai Bay Undersea Tunnel. He donated all the 8 million yuan of the country's highest science and technology award to poor students, donating 6.5 million yuan. Yuan supports Wuhan in its fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. He was awarded first-class merit once and third-class merit 22 times. He was commended as a national outstanding Communist Party member and a national moral model.
- Nie Haisheng, male, Han nationality, was born in Zaoyang, Hubei Province in September 1964. He enlisted in the army in June 1983. He is currently a special astronaut of the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Brigade.
He is a heroic astronaut who is determined to serve the country and conducts three space patrols. In 1998, he was selected as one of my country's first batch of astronauts. After years of hard training, he successfully completed training tasks in hundreds of subjects in eight categories, including basic theory, professional technology, and mission simulation, and passed various assessments with excellent results.In October 2005, the Shenzhou 6 manned mission was carried out, and in close cooperation with the astronauts on board, a major leap was achieved from "one person, one day" to "many people, many days" space flight; in June 2013, the Shenzhou 10 manned flight mission and served as the commander, successfully achieving automatic and manual control rendezvous and docking with the Tiangong-1 target aircraft; in June 2021, he executed the Shenzhou 12 manned flight mission and served as the commander. He went into space again at the age of 57 and successfully completed the autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking mission with the Tianhe core module. He stayed in orbit for 3 months and carefully organized two extravehicular activities of the Chinese space station , effectively testing the performance of my country's new generation of Chinese extravehicular spacesuit. The functional performance and the ability of astronauts to work together with the robotic arm enabled the Chinese to enter their own space station for the first time, becoming the first Chinese astronaut to stay in orbit for 100 days. He only wanted to fly, and he always used the magnificent track of traveling in space to write his infinite loyalty to the party. He is the representative of countless strivers and climbers in China's aerospace industry in the new era. He was awarded second-class merit 22 times and third-class merit 2 times. In 2005, he was awarded the honorary title of "Heroic Astronaut" by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, and won the "First-class Aerospace Merit Medal".
Source | CCTV News
