On October 31, 2009, Qian Xuesen, known as the father of China's aerospace, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 98.
Qian Xuesen has made great contributions to China's national defense cause. It is precisely because Qian Xuesen and other leading overseas talents have returned to China to serve, and the missile and atomic bomb industries of New China have advanced for at least 20 years.
Qian Xuesen studied under the famous aerospace engineer von Karmen during his studies in the United States, and soon became Von Karmen's most proud disciple through hard work. Qian Xuesen, who was only 28 years old, became a world-famous aerodynamics .
Although he has achieved great success and has lived a good life in the United States, Qian Xuesen has never forgotten that he is a Chinese.
In the United States, many people will take out part of their income and deposit it into an insurance company, and they are ready to use it after retirement. However, Qian Xuesen has been in the United States for 20 years and has not saved a penny because he has never planned to live in the United States permanently.
1949, after Qian Xuesen learned about the founding of New China on the radio, he immediately began to prepare for his return to China. But how could the United States let him return to China with a cutting-edge talent like Qian Xuesen?
1950, when Qian Xuesen boarded the ship and was about to return to China, he was arrested and censored by the US security department. The news quickly spread to the country. After five years of efforts by Premier Zhou and others, he even released more than a dozen American pilots captured in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. Qian Xuesen finally returned to his hometown, which he had been away for many years, in October 1955.
Qian Xuesen quickly started his work after returning to China. In the second year, he was ordered to establish the first rocket missile research institute in New China.
In 1960, after the efforts of a group of scientists such as Qian Xuesen, my country successfully conducted the first short-range missile in Jiuquan, Gansu. Since then, China has taken another big step in cutting-edge weapons.
After retirement in his later years, Qian Xuesen was still very concerned about the development of China's cutting-edge weapons. Until his death, he often said: This is what I worry about in China's long-term development,
China's long-term development. Although
is only six short words, every word is heart-wrenching and makes people feel touching.
