On the last day of 2023, I opened the 48 issues of the "Youth Digest" and "Youth Digest (Color Edition)" magazines at hand, and vivid faces jumped out of the page
A seeker who follows his dreams, a practitioner who bows down to the game, a persistent challenger, a brave climber, a young man who is a newborn calf and a young man, and a deceased ...... who has experienced the spirit of wind and clouds forever
In 2023, when there are too many uncertainties, they have given us encouragement, warmth and empathy, which come from their dreams and solidity, perseverance and tolerance, from their curiosity, desire for knowledge and exploration, and from their unreserved selfless love for the world and others.
They also show us that growth is not only about being young, but also about being ordinary.
The stars light up the sky, "Youth Digest 2023 Person of the Year", together with you and me, to illuminate this unique year in everyone's life.
Gui HaichaoCosmonaut.
Wearing a pair of short-sighted glasses may be the biggest difference between Gui Haichao and other Chinese astronauts in appearance.
On May 30, 2023, Shenzhou-16 was successfully launched, and Gui Haichao, as the first payload expert of China's manned mission, is a professor at Beihang University.
As a mentor and friend in the eyes of his students, he also has an idol in his heart. Following in the footsteps of Qian Xuesen and Yang Liwei, after two years and three months of training, Gui Haichao finally started this journey of space experiment exploration.
In his heart, "it is a happy thing to be able to apply what I have learned and participate in the manned space industry." Staying curious and exploring the unknown is what drives me forward. ”
Gui Haichao: University professor "transformed" into an astronaut
Ding LirenWorld Chess Champion.
On the evening of April 30, 2023, after 22 days of life-and-death battles, Chinese chess player Ding Liren was crowned world chess champion, which is the first time that a Chinese male chess player has reached the top of the world in chess.
The down-to-earth and tenacious character, the habit of diligent thinking, and the hobby of insisting on reading are all strong supports behind this long road to chess king. For Ding Liren, whether he can win the chess king is secondary, the important thing is the experience of life, "the game is a reflection of the depths of my soul, I just want to be the best chess player".
What about the meaning of life?Ding Liren replied: "It is in different moments, and we should live for those shining moments." ”
Chess King Ding Liren: Hold on, for the moment of flashing".
Zhang SongwenActor.
At the beginning of 2023, the hit drama "Hurricane" has triggered a nationwide upsurge of drama chasing. On the set, the leading actor Zhang Songwen kept communicating with the group performances and the masses on the set, figuring out the role, washing hands with a pot of soup and a fish tank, and portraying the life and habits of fishmongers.
The real performance must be based on real life. ”
Zhang Song is true of this truth, and he is "hurricane" on the road to improving his acting skills. And in order to pursue this truth, he asks himself to live like an ordinary person.
If an actor wants to be a star, he is escorted by a group of people to take a special passage, and he can't usually go to the street like ordinary people, so what else is he performing?All performances are for ordinary people, but if you can't be an ordinary person, then ordinary people will definitely abandon you. ”
Zhang Songwen: Live Like an Ordinary Man".
Yu HuaWriter.
In September 2023, an entry called "Yu Hua Scribbled Puppy" became a hot search. Young people say that Yu Hua is like a "puppy", of course, not only for the appearance, but also for a deeper emotional dependence.
He has a sharp contrast with the image of a serious writer, not pretentious, not preaching, resonating with young people, as a rare e-person in the literary circle, there is a kind of magic to "disenchant" literature and writers.
From the perspective of emotional value providers, Yu Hua is like an animal friend who does not ask for conditions, does not make demands, and does not pay attention to guests, smoothing the hollow that suddenly cracks in the hearts of young people.
Yu Hua: Happiness or sadness are my calmness
Zhang YufeiWorld Champion in Swimming.
Engaging in competitive sports is not an easy task, everything requires talent and hard work. But as long as you decide on it and keep going, I don't think the result will be bad. ”
From July to October 2023, Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei participated in the Fukuoka 2023 World Aquatics Championships, the Chengdu Summer Universiade, the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, and the 2023 FINA Swimming World Cup, winning a total of 23 gold medals in 59 competitions, winning the MVP of the Hangzhou Asian Games and ranking third in the total women's points of the World Cup.
She has also experienced hardships and navigated through the fog, but she firmly believes: "As long as I can't be defeated, tomorrow I will be stronger." ”
Zhang Yufei: Through the fog, see the dawn".
Lei JunEntrepreneur.
In November 2023, Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi Group, donated 1.3 billion yuan to his alma mater, Wuhan University, setting a new record for the largest single donation since the establishment of the university and the largest personal cash donation from alumni received by a university in China.
Thirty-six years ago, Lei Jun was admitted to the computer science department of Wuhan University, where he built his lifelong dream: to start a great company. How?During his academic career, Lei Jun pondered three goals: one is to complete all credits in two years, the second is to become an excellent programmer, and the third is to write in a journal.
In his 2023 annual speech, Lei Jun said: "The power of dreams is extremely powerful, and I have tried my best to make all kinds of impossible things possible. This experience laid a solid foundation for the rest of my life. ”
Lei Jun: Wuhan University, the starting point of dreams
Yan NingBiologist.
In November 2023, 45-year-old Yan Ning was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
She has the following labels: a beautiful student who graduated from Tsinghua University, a proud protégé of structural biologist Shi Yigong, a 30-year-old Tsinghua professor, and publishing articles in the world's top scientific academic journals is like "irrigation".
Yan Ning has led a team with an average age of less than 30 years old to successfully overcome the most high-profile topics in the field of membrane protein research......For her, whether life is worth it or not does not depend on external evaluation, but on what she has done for society.
Yan Ning said: "A hat can't change who you are, and you won't be better just because you have a hat." ”
Yan Ning: Constant exploration is my daily life
Kong DashanDirector.
Are there really aliens in this world?”
In the spring of 2023, the film "Cosmic Exploration Editorial Department", which tells the obsession of the editorial department of the declining magazine in search of extraterrestrial civilizations, was born, and won high praise as "another possibility that cannot be ignored in Chinese science fiction" with its abundant thinking and vivid expression.
In the view of young director Kong Dashan, he is like a donkey who always runs in the film, striving for the "carrot" at all stages of life.
It's like when you're upset, and an unreliable friend of yours suddenly comes up to you and makes all kinds of inexplicable jokes on you, and finally you find out that he is actually comforting you in a clumsy way. If the audience feels comforted, the film makes sense. ”
Director Kong Dashan and his magical universe".
Blue Sky Rescue TeamCivil relief organizations.
On July 31, 2023, heavy rain, the Beijing Fangshan Blue Sky Rescue Team received a request for help from Baicaowa Village. After 17 hours of continuous rescue, 40 villagers were successfully moved to a safe location, but Wang Hongchun and Liu Jianmin, two team members, fixed their lives in the rapids.
In the past ten years, China's civil rescue forces, represented by blue sky rescue teams in various places, have gradually grown and become an important emergency rescue force in many major disasters at home and abroad.
They don't have a fixed amount of money**, and they even need to raise their own rescue equipment. Some people laugh and call them "power generation with love", but they are such a group of people, who always do not care about gains and losses, are not afraid of hardships and dangers, write extraordinary with ordinary, and hold up the "blue sky" in danger.
Blue Sky Rescue Team: Ordinary Heroes Around You and Me".
Jiang YuheWorldSkills Champion.
From the assembly line of the Dongguan factory, to the Henan Chemical Technician College, and then to the gold medal podium of the WorldSkills Competition, what happened to Jiang Yuhe was not just an inspirational story about "counterattack".
She gave this gold medal another meaning: changing your destiny is not only the way to go to college in the college entrance examination.
The "Chemistry Laboratory Technology" project lasted for 3 days and required more than 10 hours of experiments. "I thought about giving up when it was really hard, but I also knew I couldn't because I didn't just represent myself. A lot of times I feel like I'm able to persevere, it's more of a sense of responsibility. ”
This 20-year-old girl shows us that even if we are at a low starting point and take a long detour, we can still change our lives many years later by integrating into an educational environment that suits her.
A "working girl" on the podium of the World Skills Championship".
Zhang Guifang95 post-village party secretary.
Have you ever seen a girl who became the village party secretary at the age of 24?In 2023, a short ** will make Zhang Guifang, a post-95 girl, "out of the circle".
*, Zhang Guifang teased herself that she chose to return to the village because she thought that being the village party secretary would have a "high salary and easy work". However, when she returned to Sanjia Village in Hebi City, Henan Province for the first time, she looked at the broken ruins in front of her and was more confused.
Millions of dollars in debt, only the elderly and children remain, and the infrastructure is poor......In the face of many difficulties, she rectified the environment and attracted investment, which not only solved more than half of the village's debts, but also created a lot of employment opportunities, and more and more post-95s chose to return to the village to work.
I think young people nowadays are very responsible. Whether it is to return to the hometown or go to other cities, it is a brave choice. ”
There is a branch secretary in the village called "Xiaofang".
Song HaoHigh math teacher.
A good class should be one that the students like to listen to and the teacher speaks well. Song Hao, an associate professor at the School of Statistics and Mathematics at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, moved a "beautiful lesson" online.
His "Advanced Mathematics" has created a 100 million-level miracle at station B, but Song Hao feels that he is "just an ordinary high mathematics teacher". Explaining difficult knowledge points in the most understandable way for students is Song Hao's tru card.
Mathematics is very boring, and cross-border learning and curriculum design are all designed to make students learn happily, because class is a joyful thing. ”
Song Hao: A high math lesson, 100 million ** amount".
Xu ZhuoyuanClimbers.
I'm going to climb Mount Everest!Four years later, 16-year-old Xu Zhuoyuan, a 12-year-old girl from Changsha, fulfilled her promise with practical actions, and after nearly 10 hours of difficult climbing, she became the youngest person in China to successfully climb Mount Everest from the south slope.
During the preparation period of several years, Xu Zhuoyuan had to tie 22 kilograms of sandbags to her legs and back every day, climb five floors, run 10 kilometers, and do 10 sets of squats ......But she said: "We are lucky to be able to climb it out of love, but for me to climb Mount Everest, not only so that the world can see me, but I hope everyone can also see our generation of new Chinese youth." ”
Xu Zhuoyuan: Ascended to the "Top of the World" at the age of 16