"Father of Nuclear Submarine" Huang Xuhua: My mother was 60 when she left home, and her mother was 93 when she returned home

For all nuclear powers, nuclear submarines have extraordinary significance. The nuclear submarine is a sea-based weapon in the triad nuclear strike force. In the naval force, its importance is not lost to that of the aircraft carrier. The biggest difference between nuclear submarines and ordinary submarines is that they use nuclear reactors to provide power for themselves. Driven by nuclear power, nuclear submarines have better endurance and combat effectiveness. The emergence of nuclear submarines has also brought the development of submarines into a whole new stage. All countries in the world pay great attention to the development of their nuclear submarine strength.

China’s nuclear submarine business is also developing very well today. We have a number of self-developed nuclear submarines, including the 095 attack nuclear submarine, and we are still intensively developing the latest 096 nuclear submarine. The reason why China can achieve such achievements in just a few decades is inseparable from the scientific researchers who have dedicated their youth to the country, including Huang Xuhua, the father of China's nuclear submarines.

In the modern history of China, the old China, with its weak naval power, suffered a lot. In the face of imperialist ships and guns, we had no means of counterattack. In the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, the navy sent by the Qing government was almost completely wiped out. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, our naval power is still a blank sheet of paper. Under such circumstances, it is not easy to develop advanced warships.

But our country is well aware that to defend the country's territorial sovereignty, we must have a powerful navy. Therefore, the development of nuclear submarines was put on our agenda. However, our country's industrial strength and technological level at that time were relatively backward, and we were stumbling on the road of nuclear submarine development. In 1958, Huang Xuhua was in danger and took up the task of developing nuclear submarines for China on his shoulders.

At that time, the Soviet Union's intention to interfere with China became more and more obvious. They wanted to make China the sharpest knife in their hands and replace them to fight the world. But our country was unwilling to succumb to the Soviet Union, so it rejected a series of unreasonable requests from the Soviet Union to interfere in our internal affairs. Under such circumstances, the Sino-Soviet relationship has cracked, and the Soviet Union even claims that China will never independently develop nuclear submarines.

Faced with the ridicule of the Soviet Union, our country was very angry, and at the same time, it was determined to build a nuclear submarine. The more the Soviet Union looked down on us, the more we wanted to prove ourselves. So Chinese scientists, including Huang Xuhua, began arduous research day and night, just to make a breakthrough in the nuclear submarine career.

For the new China, which is poor and wasteful, it is difficult to develop nuclear submarines independently. But the Chinese sons and daughters have the spirit of not hitting the southern wall and not turning back, and we will never turn back no matter how difficult the road to develop nuclear submarines is. The effort paid off. Our scientific research team finally achieved success after a long period of hard work. The Type 091 nuclear submarine we developed was successfully launched and stayed under the water for 91 days. This achievement cannot help but surprise people.

Because the nuclear submarine program is an absolute secret of our country, Huang Xuhua stayed away from his family after becoming a member of the nuclear submarine development team and dedicated himself to the motherland. In the 30 years that he devoted himself to the nuclear submarine business incognito, Huang Xuhua changed from a strong young man to a gray-haired old man. He did not have time to see his father for the last time. When Huang Xuhua retired and returned to his hometown, he was 62 years old, and his mother had become 93 years old.

Huang Xuhua is just a microcosm of the thousands of scientific researchers in our country. They dedicate their precious youth to the future of the motherland in order to hide their names. They will not return to their families until they are old. The achievements of New China are inseparable from their contributions, and they deserve our respect from the heart.