As we all know, Qian Xuesen's patriotic return 50 years ago opened China's space industry, which is a brilliant achievement of today's space industry. Qian Yonggang revealed that he was present at the historic moment when Qian Lao returned to China. At that time, I was as big as a child and came back from Guangzhou. So many people came to participate in the activities today, and I think it is also a continuation of the affirmation of Qian Xuesen's work by the party and the state. On September 7th, 1955, Qian Xuesen boarded the "President of Cleveland" with his wife Jiang Ying, son Qian Yonggang and daughter Qian Yongzhen and set off for home. That year, Qian Yonggang was 7 years old and her sister Qian Yongzhen was 5 years old. The cruise ship started, and they were running around on the deck, very excited. When they were young, they had no worries about their parents' home country. Qian Yonggang recalled that he was most anxious at that time. "This ship has sailed for so long, why hasn't it left the coast!"
He and his sister looked out for a long time and finally got sleepy. When I woke up, I was happy. "I finally sailed into the sea!" Years later, this cruise ship was repeatedly mentioned as "a big ship that changed the fate of Qian Xuesen and the development of science and technology in China". It seems that few people care about the changes in the fate of Qian Xuesen's children. From 65438 to 0986, Qian Yonggang came to California Institute of Technology, where his father had studied and taught. At the age of 38, he was sent here at his own expense to study for a master's degree, and his father was already a professor and director of the Jet Propulsion Center at this age.
Foundation stone of college library 1966, he stood in front of the foundation stone, filled with emotion.
"1966, I am 18 years old, which is the age to go to college." But at that time, there were no schools in China, and classes were closed everywhere to make revolution.
He stayed in his high school for a while, and really didn't see any future. There happened to be an opportunity for conscription, so I told my family that I joined the army.
His father, Qian Xuesen, was then the Deputy Minister of the Seventh Ministry of Machinery Industry. Facing his son who is about to join the team before finishing high school, he can't provide more and better life choices. There is only one sentence, "If you really want to go, go!" Take a trip and do a good job! "
He didn't ask his father to say hello to the military. "It was not popular at that time, and my dad was not like this." He went south with the recruits who joined the army in 1998 and served in a certain army in the south of the Yangtze River.
No one gave him any special care because of his father's position and influence. "If I were not Qian Xuesen's son, I might get more." Under the ultra-left ideological trend, intellectuals are not trusted and regarded as dissidents. Even a minister of state like Qian Xuesen is no exception, and his family always feels "discrimination".
"During the Cultural Revolution, my father was protected, but there are still many people who doubt it. You have such good conditions in America. You're right. Give up generous treatment on your own initiative. Who believes it? " Take a bath, clear customs for everyone, check overseas relations, and eliminate hidden spies ... After a round of political campaigns, children of intellectual families have long learned to keep a low profile.
Qian Yonggang said that through nine years of grassroots training, he really felt the gap between workers, farmers and intellectuals, and even some jealousy. "The ultra-left trend of thought prevailed for a while, and there was no mass base."
His family background hindered his progress. "I have been able to evaluate five good soldiers, joined the party and got a promotion. Soldiers from workers and peasants' families can do this, but I still can't. The exam will be overweight. I am slow to do anything. "
When trying to join the party, he showed a vicious and hard performance. "Whenever the company wants to develop a party member, it has to be me, and my performance must be the first. But the company thinks that I am unqualified and will not develop party member for one year. The head of the regiment scolded:' What's the matter with you? All the activists who joined the Party are dead, and none of them can be found!' "
Lian wants to transfer him to the technical training class. "I was transferred. Within two weeks, comrades wrote to me and said that people who have developed their second performance in Lian Lian have joined the party. "
He never told his father about these experiences and encounters. When he goes home to visit relatives, he sometimes chats with his mother Jiang Ying. How did my father spend those extraordinary years? He never asked. When he returned to China at the age of seven, he could hardly speak Chinese. The child's language learning ability is amazing. He quickly learned to speak Chinese and was fluent in Mandarin. Unfortunately, he can't speak English.
Middle school began to learn Russian. In high school, it was the head teacher who taught Russian, and the teacher asked him to be the class representative. After the "Cultural Revolution", I stopped classes to make a revolution, joined the army, tossed it down, and forgot Russian.
When he visited his home for the first time after joining the army, he dug out the Russian extracurricular books he bought at school and found that he could only read one title. Thirty years later, high school classmates got together. He was embarrassed to go when he heard that the head teacher was leaving. "When I met the teacher, I made a ceremony first and apologized to the teacher. This student is incompetent. I will give you all the efforts you have taught me! " "
He didn't expect the "Cultural Revolution" to end one day. "Exercise is hot every day, and you can't have any ideas about tomorrow. At that time, there was only one thought, burying my head in the army and doing what I should do. "
He was excited and uneasy when he heard that he would resume the college entrance examination. He has never worried his parents since he was a child. "If it weren't for the Cultural Revolution, it would be no problem to get into a good university." The textbook was published in 10, and I'm almost 30. How to review? Can you go in? He doesn't know.
He went to the leader and asked him to take the exam. "Back in 10, I still dare to brag that I am going to college soon. But it's been 10 years, and I don't know if I can go in. I am not reconciled. Let me have a try. If I go in, let me go. If I don't pass the exam, I'll come back and work honestly. "
Doing technical work in the army, I still have a certain foundation in mathematics, physics and chemistry, and finally I was admitted to the university. When I entered the school, I found that his age ranked third in the same grade in the whole department, and the youngest classmate in the class was younger than him 10 years old. "That smell, hey ..."
Like him, my sister Qian Yongzhen caught up with the Cultural Revolution before graduating from high school, and later became a student of workers, peasants and soldiers, and went abroad in the 1980s.