April 23, 2022 is the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Navy of the People's Liberation Army. Compared with the backwardness and poverty that was half a century ago, this force has undergone earth-shaking changes, and in this change, one person is undoubtedly the most eye-catching.
Among all naval soldiers, this woman's figure is very prominent, and she is not an ordinary soldier, but a well-known captain - the captain of the naval missile destroyer Shaoxing, and the first female captain of the Chinese Navy.
was officially appointed on such a meaningful day, which is supreme glory for anyone, but for Wei Huixiao, this is a proof and she deserves it.
This girl has too many extraordinary stories. She graduated from Nanjing University , finished her doctorate in Sun Yat-sen University , and had excellent abilities with a very high education. However, she resolutely refused the invitation of Huawei company to earn an annual salary of one million yuan. Then she participated in the beauty pageant and won the "Top Ten in the China Special Zone of Miss Intercontinental Competition" in one fell swoop.
However, such a young girl with both talent and beauty always had the dream of joining the army. Until at the age of 35, Wei Huixiao finally boarded my country's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning through self-recommendation. In the following decade, she drifted on the sea all day long, from deputy director and deputy captain to finally become the highest commander of the latest missile destroyer Shaoxing...
December 1977, Wei Huixiao was born in Baise, Guangxi. She is not a Han nationality, but a compatriot of the Zhuang nationality.
The young Wei Huixiao showed an active attitude far beyond her peers. She has excellent physical strength and is extremely lively. She loves to run around and play almost more than boys, but her academic performance is also very good, so the teacher never stops her from participating in various sports and outdoor sports.
From elementary school to junior high school and high school, Wei Huixiao has always maintained the top scores with her cheerful and lively personality. She wanted to go out of the mountains to see the outside world. After the college entrance examination, she got what she wanted and was admitted to Nanjing University School of Atmospheric Sciences with her excellent scores.
She was born in an ordinary family, but she has a rare outgoing IQ, appearance and social ability. In college life, Wei Huixiao also actively participated in social activities in addition to studying. She acted as an event volunteer many times and was the captain of the school etiquette team. She is an absolute celebrity among students.
After graduating in 2000, Wei Huixiao did not choose a job that she had a professional counterpart, but successfully joined Huawei and began to challenge areas she was completely unfamiliar with.
Like countless peers, Wei Huixiao is just an unknown intern in this huge company, but she has actually advanced with her unremitting efforts. She not only extends her own ability, but also actively unites her colleagues. Her excellent leadership skills can be seen at this time.
After she served as the company's senior vice president secretary and administrative assistant, Huawei presented her with the award as the "Golden White Collar" and the team she led also won the "Golden Team", and her work ability is really beyond ordinary people.
Wei Huixiao's life is simply too smooth. Logically speaking, as long as she continues to work hard, her future life will definitely be very superior. However, as an executive of a leading company today, she actually developed the idea of taking the postgraduate entrance examination and her attitude is very firm.
At that time, a senior leader of the company directly came to Wei Huixiao to talk, saying that with her current level, it would be a pity to go to graduate school again and there was no need. If it was because of her dissatisfaction with the treatment, the company was willing to keep her with an annual salary of one million.
Faced with such very generous treatment conditions, Wei Huixiao chose to refuse on the spot. Her attitude was:
I don’t want to wear a watch worth millions, but I have to make an ordinary watch worth millions because I have worn it.
In this way, Wei Huixiao officially resigned from Huawei Company and successfully passed the master's degree in the Department of Football Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University that year, and returned to the campus.
She was already twenty-seven years old at this time, but she never stopped pursuing the meaning of life. She was always like this, busy in life, doing several things at the same time, and they were often very different.
In her first year of graduate school, Wei Huixiao suddenly wanted to participate in a beauty pageant while studying. Her advantage was not the beautiful face she had given birth, but more of the high self-discipline in her daily life, allowing her to maintain a good mental outlook, extraordinary temperament and slender figure.
As a person who has never had such experience, Wei Huixiao passed the game and finally won the title of Top Ten in the China Special Zone of the Miss Intercontinental Competition, and made her mark in a brand new field.
And in the second year of the postgraduate entrance examination, in order to exercise her physical fitness and spirit, she actively signed up for the Qinghai-Tibet teaching activities that no one wants to go to. On the extremely high altitude plain, living conditions were backward and difficult, but Wei Huixiao not only learned a lot from here, but even later joined the ranks of volunteers from the Regional Geological Survey Brigade of the Tibet Geological Survey Bureau.
This is already a high-risk project. During the journey, she has encountered life dangers such as falling off cliffs, rapids, and falling into a car many times. Before her, no woman had ever come to the unmanned land around Ali and Narqu to participate in the action.
After that, Wei Huixiao moved forward and studied for a doctorate after graduating from master's degree. It was not until 2012 that she officially graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. After experiencing several ups and downs, she once again faced a choice for the future.
In fact, when Wei Huixiao was young, she once said that she would never be a soldier in the future, because the life of a soldier is extremely difficult and she has to face bleeding and even sacrifice.
But in the long time later, Wei Huixiao's attitude completely changed, and her many experiences of survival in the wilderness made her begin to have great desire for life in the military camp.
However, she is already thirty-five years old and is very "old" to join the army, and there is no relevant way. How can she enter the army?
Wei Huixiao had a way. She simply wrote a self-recommendation letter to the relevant departments of the National Navy. The letter was scary, with more than 200 pages.
In the letter, Wei Huixiao talked about her ideals and areas of expertise, and also included a copy of the certificate and medal she received over the years in the letter, including her certificate of Miss Universe . It can be said to be reasonable and well-founded. Although the Navy saw her eager desire to join the army, it did not agree to her immediately. Instead, she first contacted Sun Yat-sen University to inspect her information and archives, and then sent Guangzhou naval personnel to conduct an inspection and test.
Finally, in January 2012, Wei Huixiao successfully passed the assessment and officially joined the army. According to her own choice, she directly boarded China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, as a student, and participated in the ship pick-up ceremony.
After getting what you want, there are more and more difficulties ahead. Wei Huixiao has always been the best among her peers, but she knows very little about the knowledge of navy, ships, , and has never experienced related training. She is even hard to swim. Moreover, she is older, and there must be a gap between her and young people in many places.
But Wei Huixiao's efforts and determination have always been amazing. She has lived in the south since she was a child. First of all, she must work hard to overcome the huge discomfort brought by sea life. At the same time, she tries to close the distance with young people, wander around on ships all day long, patrolling around, cleaning, cleaning the floor, maintaining equipment, and staying up late to study are all her normal situations.
In addition to getting up as early as possible and falling asleep at the latest every day, Wei Huixiao also practices swimming skills desperately. Sometimes she is already soaked in water when it is still dark. In order to learn professional knowledge, she entered Dalian Ship Academy to study, striving to make all the achievements from meeting standards to being excellent.
In October 2012, Wei Huixiao, who had long been responsible for extraordinary efforts, was rewarded. At this time, she was still teaching in the Ship Academy. It was only half a year since she joined the army, but the order from her superiors came down - Wei Huixiao was transferred to the Liaoning and the deputy navigation director of the Ministry of Navigation.
In today's navy, army and air forces, a small number of female soldiers have joined. However, due to the inherent concept of people for too long, people believe that the army does not belong to women, so it is still inevitable to be dominated by men. However, Wei Huixiao not only became a female soldier, but also became the first female deputy minister. The huge pressure in this can be imagined.
Especially after serving as deputy minister, Wei Huixiao faced a more arduous task and was also responsible for disciplined other students and soldiers. However, she demanded herself with super high standards, not only in the spotless dormitory, but also in her concentration on work and the spirit of continuous breakthrough.
Nothing can be achieved overnight. Wei Huixiao understands this. She will not brag or exaggerate, but she will only do things steadily. At the beginning, she was also confused, but she was always making progress. From the initial need to bring small notes when speaking to the soldiers, to the skillful and smooth command of the operation of various stations, her ability improvement is almost visible to the naked eye.
Under this unstoppable struggle, Wei Huixiao's position has also risen. In April 2015, she was transferred to the new missile destroyer Changchun ship as an internship captain. A year later, she was transferred to the Zhengzhou ship as the deputy captain, which also set a record for the first female deputy captain of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy.
Anyone who knows the navy knows that as the highest commander of a ship, the position of the captain is extremely important. It is not allowed to be a person with deep qualifications and outstanding abilities. Generally speaking, if an ordinary soldier has no problems in his performance all the way after graduating from military academy, it will take about 15-20 years to be promoted to the captain of a destroyer.
, and Wei Huixiao shortened this time by nearly half. Everything she gave behind this amazing action is unimaginable to any outsider.
She always walked ahead of everyone. Even if she became a leader, she still adhered to the premise of setting an example. No soldier would get up earlier than her. At the same time, she also had to understand the detailed status of all positions on the ship and the detailed information of all equipment, and often read it at night until the early morning.
For the Navy, Wei Huixiao is also a talent selected from thousands of people. Her spirit has been fully recognized by her superiors. In 2017, Wei Huixiao was officially appointed as the internship captain of the Zhengzhou ship. In the next five years, she was like a top that would never stop, and even took a day off for a whole year.
By 2022, Wei Huixiao became the captain of the Shaoxing ship of the new missile destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy, and achieved the goal of the first female captain of the Navy. As she herself said, every time the ceiling is pushed, it cannot fall, it can only be pushed higher.
At the earliest, many people doubted why Wei Huixiao gave up the generous life outside and ran to join the army. After she entered the army, some people doubted whether she could persevere. After she overcame many difficulties, some people still doubted what kind of achievements she could achieve.
Now, no one doubts anymore, because Wei Huixiao has done something that no one has ever done, and this achievement has no help. Every gain confirms the sweat she has shed.
Faced with the sky of honor and reports, Wei Huixiao was very calm because everything she did was traceable. She was not swimming smoothly, vomited as soon as she got on the boat, and stuttered directly when she spoke for the first time...
She is an ordinary person. Some people may think it is not ordinary, but if she could work hard like her for decades, she would not be ordinary. She was over half of her forties and was unmarried and unpregnant, and she drifted on the sea just for her honor and national defense cause. As she was the same sentence she wrote in her diary when she first joined the army.
"Marry the Navy in this life.
