The award speech and introduction of the 2008 People Who Moved China are here
The award speech of the People who Touched China in 2008
1. Qian Xuesen: the founder of China’s aerospace industry
After returning to the motherland in 1955 after going through hardships, this giant in the science and technology community has long held technical leadership positions in the development of rockets, missiles and spacecraft. He played a huge role in organizing and leading the research and development of rockets, missiles and spacecraft in New China, and made outstanding contributions to the rapid development of China's rocket, missile and aerospace industry.
Award Speech
In his heart, country is more important than family, science is the most important, fame and wealth are the least. It took 5 years to return to the country and 10 years to complete. He was a pioneer in pioneering the country's aerospace industry, overcoming obstacles and forging wisdom into a ladder for later climbers. He is a treasure of knowledge, a banner of science, and a model for Chinese intellectuals.
2. Min Enze: Made a catalyst for China
In the 1960s, Min Enze independently developed a microsphere silicon-alumina cracking catalyst for China, breaking the foreign technology blockade and also It laid the foundation for my country's oil refining catalyst manufacturing technology. In recent years, Min Enze has entered the research field of green chemistry and expanded catalyst science and technology to the processing and utilization of biomass resources. Since 2001, the research on biodiesel production and application directed by him has made great progress.
Award Speech
When the country needed it, he stood up! Burn yourself and light up the energy industry. Treating innovation as happiness and making chaos clear, he created a catalyst for China. He turns stone into gold, leads change and never loses his ability. He is the catalyst of Chinese science!
3. Hu Honglie and Chung Chi-wing: Spending all their wealth to cultivate talents
These are two 89-year-olds, founders of Hong Kong Shue Yan University.
Hu Honglie and Chung Chi-wing have been practicing lawyers since they returned to Hong Kong in 1953 after completing their studies. Feeling that many young people had no money to go to college, they funded the establishment of Shue Yan College in 1971 to train tens of thousands of talents. The two founded Shue Yan College and invested their life savings estimated to be at least NT$400 million to NT$500 million.
Award Speech
The Foolish Old Man at the foot of the Lion Rock, the Master by the Fragrant River. A wise couple could have lived well, but instead they scattered all their property and spent their lives running around. For the students, I am willing to be a camel. It is beneficial to people, and cows and horses also do it. We believe education can change society and they serve as role models for education.
4. Li Jianying: The choice within 16 seconds is sacrifice
In 2006, Li Jianying was hit by a flock of pigeons on his way back from a training mission. At this time, the altitude of the aircraft was 194 meters, and parachuting could save one's life. There are seven natural villages distributed within 680 meters on both sides of the 2,300-meter runway extension from the impact point of the pigeons to the crash site. If the plane loses control after parachuting and crashes into a village, the consequences will be disastrous. Within 16 seconds, he chose to make an emergency landing without hesitation and died heroically.
Award Speech
The smoke covered the earth and the sound shook the blue sky. Stars fell to the earth, and his soul returned to the sky. He had a flying career of 22 years, but fate only gave him 16 seconds! He is a soldier, so he naturally tilts the balance of life towards the people. The plane couldn't turn, and he could only let his life change course.
5. Meng Xiangbin: A young soldier sacrificed himself to save others
On November 30, 2007, Meng Xiangbin took his wife and daughter to Jinhua City for shopping. While passing Tongji Bridge, a young woman committed suicide and jumped from the bridge more than 10 meters high. Meng Xiangbin rushed to the bridge, took off his clothes and dived to save her. Ten minutes later, the motorboat that came to the rescue gradually approached them. Meng Xiangbin used his last strength to lift the young woman out of the water and handed her into the hands of the rescuers. However, he sank into the water, and the 28-year-old young man lost his life.
Award Speech
He used a glorious fall to save another life.
Don't ask whether it's worth it or not. The value of life is never reflected in exchange. He fell asleep in the cold river water, giving us a warm revelation.
6. Li Li: Use a wheelchair to draw the trajectory of love
Li Li was diagnosed with polio at the age of 1 and never stood up in childhood; she suffered another bad luck at the age of 40. The car accident left her completely paralyzed in the lower half of her body, and she has been in a wheelchair ever since.
Instead of complaining, she chose a path to spread love to society. She founded "Li Li Family Education Studio" and the public welfare website "Li Li Sky", and has been engaged in public welfare and youth psychological education for a long time. She also became the "idol" of many inmates.
Award Speech
Disability cannot defeat her, poverty cannot wear her down, and disasters cannot knock her down. Strength will grow with her life. The body is abandoned by fate, but the soul sings the song of the strong. In 5 years, she warmed 80,000 cold hearts, accepted, reciprocated, and extended. She used her wheelchair to draw the most beautiful trajectory for love.
7. Fang Yonggang: Life remains in a charging posture
Over the past 20 years since he joined the army, Fang Yonggang has published 16 political theory monographs and completed 10 national and military key scientific research projects. He is known as "Popular Professors", "Popular Scholars" and "Science Popularization Experts". In November 2006, Fang Yonggang was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer. He returned to the college from the hospital and insisted on teaching the last two classes for the students. He also completed the semester teaching and graduation thesis writing tutoring tasks for three graduate students while lying in the hospital bed. .
Award Speech
A true warrior can find his own direction in peacetime; a loyal warrior will not forget his mission when he is dying. He is a passionate theorist and a practitioner who dares to devote his life. On the battlefield of faith, he kept his life in a charging posture.
8. Chen Xiaolan: Selfless and fearless in adhering to medical ethics
Chen Xiaolan was a physiotherapist at a local hospital in Shanghai. In recent years, she has been engaged in fighting counterfeiting in the medical device industry. She has exposed more than 20 kinds of medical devices, of which 8 fake and inferior medical devices have been investigated and punished.
In the 10-year struggle against counterfeit and substandard medical devices, Chen Xiaolan once pretended to be a patient and risked herself to "test the needles" in order to obtain first-hand evidence.
Award Speech
She has been working hard for ten years despite many hardships. Since she is wearing white, she has to take responsibility for her life. In this sacred position, conscience is far more important than skill.
9. Xie Yanxin: Serving his deceased wife’s family for 33 years
55-year-old Xie Yanxin is an ordinary worker in Jiaozuo, Henan. In 1973, Liu Yanxin (later changed his surname to Xie) married Xie Lan'e, a girl from the same village. In July of the following year, before Xie Lan'e passed away, she asked her husband to take good care of his parents and mentally retarded brother. Since then, Liu Yanxin has devoted 33 years of loyalty and filial piety, creating a filial piety and beloved Xie Yanxin who moved the world. In 1979, his father-in-law suffered a severe stroke, and all the burden of the family fell on Xie Yanxin's shoulders.
Award Speech
When the storm of fate struck, he never said a word. The burden of life was on his shoulders, but his head never lowered! 33 years of hard work, extending love and keeping promises. He is like an old horse that has not galloped thousands of miles, but has reached the peak of kindness step by step.
10. Luo Yingzhen: Awakening her "sleeping" husband with love
On October 1, 2005, Luo Yingzhen and her husband Luo Jinyong, who works as a police officer in the Yongde County Public Security Bureau of Yunnan Province, went home to visit Parents, Luo Jinyong fought to the death with three drug dealers on the way, was seriously injured and became a "vegetative state". Since then, Luo Yingzhen stayed by her husband's side every day and wrote more than 600 love diaries with tears in her eyes. Now, Luo Jinyong has woken up from a deep coma in a vegetative state.
Award Speech
She used the simplest method of a traditional Chinese woman to interpret her unwavering loyalty to her lover. Sweetness is not the measure of love, only hardship can reflect the preciousness of love.
●Collective Award: "Chang'e-1" R&D Team
This is a young team, with an average age of only 30 years old. The deputy commander-in-chief is 34 years old, the deputy chief designer is 37 years old, and the overall chief designer is 36 years old. This is a group of aerospace talents. Over the past three years, they have successively overcome orbit design, lunar eclipse issues, development of digital transmission directional antennas, satellite thermal design, navigation and control subsystem design, measurement and control digital transmission subsystem design, ultraviolet lunar sensors, A series of technical problems such as the design of digital management sub-systems have led to the acquisition of a large number of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights. On November 7, 2007, when the "Chang'e-1" satellite entered the working orbit around the moon with an accuracy exceeding design expectations, the whole country celebrated and the people were excited. The Chinese people's thousand-year wish to fly to the moon finally came true.