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Text|White. On June 8, 1968, a sudden news came from the Beijing 703 Institute that the director of the institute, Yao Tongbin, had been beaten to death, and his colleagues brought the news to Director Yao's wife, so that she could prepare early.
The wife couldn't believe that her husband was fine when he went out to work in the morning, but he was carried back at night and turned into a cold corpse, and she quickly reported it to her superiors.
**After learning about it, he was very angry, and he instructed General Su Yu to strengthen the protection of scientific research personnel and investigate this matter to the end.
Eye of the Storm begins
In 1966, when the whole country entered the eye of the storm, a big-character poster appeared at the door of the China Institute of Aerospace Materials (703 Institute), on which the name of the director, Yao Tongbin, was written, saying that he was a white dictator, a reactionary academic authority and many other "celebrities", and threatened to rectify him.
Yao Tongbin's wife Peng Jieqing was very worried about him, and had a premonition that a disaster would befall her family and her husband in the future, but Yao Tongbin comforted her: No matter how the situation changes, we should not complain about this and that, we should think more about what we have done for the country
Her husband's words made Peng Jieqing speechless, you must know that Yao Tongbin returned to China from abroad in response to the call of the motherland.
Her husband had excellent grades in primary school Xi, and at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Yao Tongbin, who was still in middle school, went to Jiangxi in the rear alone to go to school in order to study.
Later, he studied in the United Kingdom and obtained a doctorate in metallurgy from the University of Birmingham, graduating just in time for the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Yao Tongbin, who heard the news, was extremely excited and immediately devoted himself to the patriotic activities of Chinese students in the UK, which made him expel from the UK, and Yao Tongbin transferred to Germany to study.
In Germany he is the assistant of the famous scholar Yi Pivorsky, under his guidance, Yao Tongbin published several famous **, in 1957, Yao Tongbin took the whole family to return to China to work, was assigned to the Fifth Research Institute of the Ministry of National Defense to work, a thought of the conditions here, so that Peng Jieqing can not let go.
The place where they worked was Yuan Shikai's training camp, with only a few dilapidated houses, Yao Tongbin's office only had a microscope, he was still the oldest person in the laboratory when he was in his 30s, and the others were young people in their early 20s who had just graduated from university.
In the eyes of his wife Peng Jieqing, this kind of research environment cannot be compared with that in Germany, it is simply heaven and earth, but Yao Tongbin plunged into the laboratory and was so busy every day that he couldn't take care of his home.
In addition, in order to make China's aerospace materials research catch up with the international level, Yao Tongbin needs to read a lot of professional books in his spare time, in 1958 Peng Jieqing gave birth to their second child, the organization took into account Yao Tongbin's young child, arranged for their family to go to Beidaihe for vacation.
Peng Jieqing found that after she and her children came to Beidaihe, she didn't see her husband, the eldest was in kindergarten, the second child was just born, and she was very tired to take care of the child by herself, and her husband was bent on doing research in the stacks of books, which made Peng Jieqing angry.
Yao Tongbin saw that his wife was so troubled, so he simply said to her that the institute was working on a batch of foreign materials, and these things were about to be translated.
Seeing that her husband was dedicated to work, Peng Jieqing no longer complained, and the staff in the institute had low practical ability at that time, and Yao Tongbin personally guided and lectured many times.
On a business trip to the northwest for work, Yao Tongbin and all his colleagues camped outside, and walked dozens of kilometers all the way to the destination in the dark at night.
A colleague in the institute told Peng Jieqing that Yao Tongbin, as the director, was also the only one in the institute who had studied abroad, and he had no frame at all, and he shared weal and woe with his comrades, which was admirable.
Tireless researcher
Peng Jieqing saw that her husband was so selfless and dedicated to the country, she no longer had any opinions, after 1960, the first marshal asked my country to speed up the independent development of rockets, and to work rocket dyes and processes.
At that time, the news of the accident of the US space shuttle came from abroad, that is, there was a problem in the key technology, and in order to catch up with the United States, the state now requires Yao Tongbin and his team to overcome this technical problem.
At that time, China's rocket manufacturing technology was very backward, not to mention that various materials on the rocket could not be produced, and even the civilian stainless steel materials that had been used in European and American countries could not be made, and it was even more difficult to create aerospace materials.
Rocket materials are extremely demanding, and its texture has the ability to withstand high temperatures, ultra-low temperatures, vibrations, sealing, ablation, corrosion, aging and other conditions.
Peng Jieqing is very worried about her husband, Yao Tongbin studied abroad to study liquid metal, and is also engaged in this kind of research, for the rocket material process, he has not done it at all, and now the country wants him to lead the team and start from scratch, isn't this difficulty too great?
In order to overcome the difficulties, Yao Tongbin found the handwriting when he was studying abroad and kept looking at it, English and German, when he was studying, Yao Tongbin was a well-read student, he had read books on materials, and now, these handwriting can just come in handy.
However, after many years, rocket materials science has developed a lot, Yao Tongbin's handwriting can no longer meet the needs, he told his wife that he will go to the library to continue reading after work, and he needs to do a lot of handwriting, hoping that Peng Jieqing can help him transcribe his handwriting when needed.
Peng Jieqing agreed, in 1963, Yao Tongbin came home from work and began to pick up the lamp at home to learn Xi, when his right hand was sore because of the sore fingers of writing, Peng Jieqing helped him to transcribe, seeing that the content of her husband's transcription was so complicated, Peng Jieqing sighed that her knowledge was limited and she couldn't help her husband anything, but the optimistic Yao Tongbin said that he had long been Xi accustomed to having her noisy wife and children around him, which made Peng Jieqing feel ashamed.
Through the efforts of Yao Tongbin and his team, China's rocket materials have finally achieved nationalized production, and his achievements have been highly praised, but Yao Tongbin's research achievements have brought him the most annoyance.
Died in an accident
Yao Tongbin believes that the research of China's rocket materials can not only meet the existing models, the future technology will definitely develop, and he must prepare for future development.
To this end, he advocated that China must attach importance to the innovative research of rocket materials, which is more important than rocket manufacturing.
For this reason, he applied to the organization to buy back a batch of equipment from abroad, specifically for the purpose of material research, and some people pointed out that Yao Tongbin's purchase of equipment from abroad was blindly seeking to be big and complete, and that the purchase of these things was done by the bourgeois state, wasting the country's money.
In 1965, Yao Tongbin found that after the equipment he bought was shipped back to China, it was sold at a low price without permission, and some were simply discarded and still in the garbage heap as scrap.
This made Yao Tongbin very dissatisfied, and he strongly called for attention to material research, repeatedly emphasizing that this is the basis for future updates and iterations of rockets. For this reason, Yao Tongbin offended some people and was criticized.
Someone complained to the organization about his "black state", and these people even came to the 703 Institute to hold a criticism meeting to publicly criticize Yao Tongbin, at this time he resisted the pressure and continued to work.
In 1968, the situation in the country became more severe, and some people with ulterior motives began to prepare to attack Yao Tongbin, who was killed on the street home on June 8, 1968, until this time, he was still planning the next step.
**Got the news, so angry that the teacup almost fell to the ground, Yao Tongbin's research value, he is very clear, so he instructed the relevant departments to be sure to find out**.
It was not until 1978 that the state decided to rehabilitate Yao Tongbin, posthumously recognized him as a martyr, held a memorial service to commemorate him, and recognized him as the founder of China's rocket industry and the father of the two bombs.
Zhao Jiuzhang, who attended the memorial service, commented that if he was still alive, he would definitely be able to bring China's rocket industry to the world's leading level.
At this time, only Peng Jieqing understood best that her husband had served the country all his life, and with his realm, if he could live to see today, he would still choose to devote all his energy to rocket research.
Until this time, Peng Jieqing always thought of her husband's words, people should complain less and do more, which became the motivation for Peng Jieqing to continue to live.
Reference message
1: Peng Jieqing. Aerospace situation - remember the martyr Yao Tongbin, an expert in rocket materials. Science and Technology Literature. 1994.08