"Night at the Military Harbor" was written by Ma Jinxing, composed by Liu Shizao, and sung by Su Xiaoming. The lyrics of the song are as follows:
The night of the military harbor is quiet, the waves rock the battleship gently.
Young sailors rest their heads on the waves and smile sweetly in their sleep.
Sea breeze you gently blow, waves you gently shake.
How hard the sailors who have sailed far away have labored and returned to the embrace of the motherland.
Let our sailors sleep well, the night of the military harbor ah quiet.
The waves of the sea rocked the battleship gently, and the young sailors rested their heads on the waves.
Sleeping with a sweet smile, the sea breeze you gently blow.
The waves of the sea you gently rocked, how hard the sailors of the voyage.
Before the sun rose to the surface of the sea, look at our battleships to weigh anchor again.
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In 1980, the Beijing Evening News and several other organizations wanted to hold a "Golden Autumn Concert" in the fall, and invited singer Su Xiaoming to participate in the performance. At that time, the leaders of the Song and Dance Troupe of the Political Department of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were also anxious about the lack of suitable songs for Su Xiaoming's preparation for the "Middle-aged Young Singers Competition" organized by the army system. The leaders found Ma Jinxing, a lyricist, and asked him to make a song lyrics for Su Xiaoming as soon as possible. At that time, Ma Jinxing had only written the first few lines of the lyrics of "Night in the Military Harbor", and he was worried about how to finish the song, so this order created an opportunity for him. Returning to his lodging, he thought of the lyrics while cooking, and when the meal was finished, the lyrics were also finished. After writing the lyrics, he handed them over to the composer Liu Shizao, with whom he discussed the direction of the song's composition in the People's Liberation Army Navy's second auditorium, and two hours later, completed the song's score