There is such a person who initiated the history of bridge construction in China and devoted his life to bridge construction in China. His life was spent in ups and downs, and he made steady progress in the research of bridge construction with his love for the motherland. The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in China, the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the nanpu bridge in Shanghai and the Humen Bridge in Guangdong all passed through his hands.
This great man is Brandon Lee, a famous master of bridge construction in China. He was respected by foreign bridge construction experts and made them withdraw from the stage of China. China is a "crazy infrastructure", so Brandon Lee is a "crazy bridge builder". Because of his existence, China never needed foreign aid in bridge construction, which is the strength of Brandon Lee and China.
After I graduated from Tongji, I went to Germany to study abroad.
Brandon Lee was born in a very poor family in Meizhou, Guangdong. His mother is a simple rural woman, while his father runs a small grocery store, which is the only source of income for his family of three.
In remote mountain villages, children always fight, and few parents care about their children's learning problems. However, Brandon Lee was eager for knowledge since he was a child. Meizhou is a famous hometown of football in China. Besides loving sports, he also likes reading. Other children are interested in fighting and killing martial arts novels, but he is curious about boring geometric principles. He loves Liu Ma, a Cowherd by Kong Mingsuo, Jiu Lianhuan and Zhuge Liang. Brandon Lee has been doing well from primary school to middle school, and he has become the focus of everyone's talk after dinner.
Later, through my unremitting efforts, I was admitted to the Department of Civil Engineering of Tongji University. During this period, he also learned many languages. Finally, when he graduated, he had published many professional papers. After graduation, Brandon Lee chose to stay as a teaching assistant, but it was not long before the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression changed all this.
Because the German professor returned to China, he wanted to give lectures as a professor, and because of this, he got a valuable opportunity to study abroad. With the support of a German scholarship, he went to study at the Stade University of Technology in Damme, Germany. After graduating from Germany successfully, Brandon Lee was repeatedly retained by tutors and professors because of his outstanding strength, but he resolutely decided to return to China and serve his country with what he had learned all his life. In this way, 1946, he returned to the embrace of the motherland and began his lifelong career of building bridges.
When disaster comes, where to go?
After returning to the motherland, Brandon Lee served as the director of the Department of Civil Engineering of Tongji University, and the calm was not broken until that special period came. Brandon Lee began to go to prison because of trumped-up charges, and there was no end in sight and no hope in prison. When he heard that Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge was opened to traffic, he was more worried than excited about Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge. Because after the completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, there was a sloshing problem, but this problem has not been answered. Brandon Lee is afraid of similar problems in Nanjing Bridge and is determined to find out the root of the problem.
However, there is not a pen or paper in the prison. Under difficult conditions, he used the corner of the newspaper to calculate accurate formulas over and over again. If he was confiscated, he would have to start all over again, but that didn't stop him from working.
Finally, after two years, he came out of the prison room, and the sunshine outside was so dazzling. After returning home, Brandon Lee turned his home into a laboratory, and used all available resources to build a model for research. After countless sleepless nights, he finally came to the conclusion that the sloshing problem of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge is caused by the vibration phenomenon caused by people standing and moving on the deck at the same time. This conclusion excites all experts, scholars and people.
The arrival of 1977 changed all this. Brandon Lee was reinstated as the president of Tongji University. In the following time, Brandon Lee, known as the "soul of Tongji", led Tongji University to start a rapid road of reform and development. In the early days of reform and opening up, when the country's development was still relatively slow, Brandon Lee was appointed as the chief consultant of Shanghai Baosteel Engineering and Technical Advisory Committee. With the strength of science and the responsibility of body, we have made the Baosteel project in China world-famous, and also let foreigners witness what is called the pearl of the rise of the East and what is called the speed of China.
Footprints have traveled all over China
Brandon Lee loved learning all his life, and he explained the phrase "It's never too old to learn" to the world with his actions. In his eighties, he is still studying high technology, learning many foreign languages by himself, and taking part in countless bridge construction all his life. From Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge to Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, from technical consultant to director of technical advisory committee, he broke through one difficulty after another when building the bridge.
To say that the bridges of great significance to him should be nanpu bridge in Shanghai and Humen Bridge in Guangdong. The completion of these two bridges is also a qualitative leap for China, which makes foreigners look at China with new eyes. When building the Shanghai Pudong Bridge, the Japanese intended to "save" China with contemptuous eyes, but Brandon Lee told the mayor of Shanghai that China's team was now capable of completing the construction of the Shanghai Pudong Bridge. Finally, nanpu bridge was successfully built, and we proved to the world that China is strong, and we don't need to be inferior to others.
Then Brandon Lee's hometown Guangdong invited the British team to build the Humen Bridge. When Brandon Lee learned this, he called the mayor of Guangdong: Guangdong is his parents, and he wanted to make some contribution to his hometown with what he had learned all his life. Finally, it was unanimously agreed that under the leadership of Brandon Lee, the entire Humen Bridge was opened to traffic. At that moment, Cantonese people cheered, and it was also the moment when China announced on the world stage that he could build a bridge independently.
The most touching thing is Donghai Bridge. Brandon Lee, an old man, is lying in a hospital bed and still cares about the construction of Donghai Bridge every day. At the age of 92, when he handed over the drawings of two design institutes to the students, it also meant that he wrote a long letter of resignation to the people of China. Mr Brandon Lee died at the age of 92.
On the blueprint of China's development, Brandon Lee drew the most beautiful lines with his own life. Many people have asked him why he didn't choose to stay abroad. His answer shocked the world: "Because it is the call of the motherland, a wanderer in a foreign land has a burning loyalty to serve his country." He really contributed all his strength to his motherland until the last moment of his life. This dedication is worth remembering by each of us.