Everyone knows how backward China is and how much bullying it has been subjected to in modern times.
The more we learn about history, the more we understand that we must be strong in order to inspire us to continue our efforts.
Today, let's learn about a piece of the past when New China was first founded, and learn from this history to strive for self-improvement.
In 1963, when the People's Republic of China was founded, but after years of war, China, which was riddled with holes, was beginning to build in an all-round way.
This year, many major events happened in our country, one of which was the sinking of a huge ship in our country.
Unexpectedly, after the sinking of the giant ship, my country did not have time to speak, but Japan preemptively released the news.
What's going on here?What the hell happened then?Why is Japan so brazen?
It was 1963, just after the end of the Second World War, and international relations were still in a very delicate state.
It was at this time that our country, with the help of the Soviet Union, successfully developed the first cargo ship "Yuejin", and soon after began its first voyage, the destination was Nagoya West Port, Japan, when the ship was loaded with corn.
On April 30, 1963, the Yuejin set off for Japan, carrying the hopes of all the people of Japan.
The weather on this day was very good, and the sea was calm, but I didn't expect that the next day, when the Yuejin came to the sea area of Suyan Reef, everything changed, and the sea suddenly blew violently.
It didn't take long for the sirens on the ship to sound, which meant that the boat was damaged!
After the accident, the captain immediately reported the situation to **, looking forward to ** to send rescue.
Soon, a rescue operation was arranged, but it was too far away, and it was also suggested that the Yuejin ask for help from the passing ships before the rescue arrived, and at the same time encouraged the Yuejin to do everything possible to persevere.
After receiving the news, the captain immediately organized the crew of the whole ship to try their best to save themselves, and at the same time issued an SOS distress signal, hoping that the passing ships could only receive the message and lend a helping hand to them.
**Upon learning of the news of the Yuejin's distress, he immediately ordered the Navy to come to the rescue.
But it all happened so quickly, and the weather on the sea was so bad that the Yuejin simply couldn't hold out for so long.
Before China's rescue arrived in the sea area where the Yuejin was located, the news of the Yuejin's accident came out.
This news was first released by a Japanese radio station, and the Japanese side said that there was a ship in their country at that time in the sea area where the Yuejin was in distress, so after the Yuejin sent out the SOS distress signal, they immediately rushed to the Yuejin and rescued the captain and the surviving crew, but the Yuejin unfortunately sank.
When Japan released the broadcast, it also said the reason for the sinking of the Yuejin: it was hit by a torpedo!
This news shocked everyone as soon as it came out, because if the sinking of the Leap was due to a torpedo hit, then the sinking of the Leap Forward was not an accident, but a conspiracy.
As a result, various countries began to issue statements in an attempt to distance themselves from relations.
The torpedo sinking of a giant ship in China is not a trivial matter, and it may directly cause disputes between countries as well as internationally.
For this reason, the United States also held a special press conference, saying that no U.S. ships or submarines went to the waters of Suyan Reef during that time.
Countries that have never been to are so nervous, let alone those that have passed through the waters of Suyan Reef in a similar amount of time.
For a time, there was a lot of discussion, and the sinking of China's giant ship has become the most concerned issue in the world.
Japan, as the first to release the news, saw that the wish caused a dispute, and began to come out to be a good person, saying that the reason why they said this was because the surviving captains and crew of the Yuejin said so.
But at this time, the United States put forward another conjecture and shifted the spearhead back to Japan.
The United States said: Could the torpedo that caused the Yuejin to be killed was planted by Japan during the war?It hasn't had time to clean it up, so it will lead to such a tragedy.
Everything began to get worse, and my country understood that no matter what the truth was, we could not be pushed to the forefront by other countries like this.
In order to find out the truth about the sinking of the Yuejin, and in order to stabilize the situation at the time, ** personally presided over the situation, and immediately sent someone to pick up the surviving captain and crew and began to investigate the matter in detail.
So, was the sinking of the Leap a conspiracy or an accident?Why is this matter so serious?What is the significance of the Yuejin to our country?Let's move on.
As we all know, in modern times, China's industry is very backward, after the founding of New China, China immediately began to develop industry, trying to catch up with or even surpass Western countries as soon as possible.
At that time, China had a very friendly relationship with the former Soviet Union, the "big brother", and the former Soviet Union also began to guide China's industrial development.
On November 27, 1958, this day was of great significance to our country, when at the Dalian shipyard, China's first self-produced 10,000-ton cargo ship was successfully launched, and this cargo ship was our "Yuejin".
The birth of the Yuejin means a huge leap in the shipbuilding industry after the establishment of New China, so it was named.
The production of the Yuejin made countless Chinese excited, although we needed the help of the Soviet Union at that time, and it was not an independent manufacturer, but it also meant that China's industry still took a major step.
Next came the official voyage of the giant ship, and in anticipation of everyone's expectation, on April 30, 1963, the Yuejin was about to leave for Japan.
On the day the Yuejin went to sea, the docks were crowded with people, and everyone was looking forward to witnessing the moment of the Yuejin's voyage.
You must know that the Yuejin used the most advanced technology at the time, it could sail nearly nineteen nautical miles in one hour, and it was equipped with the most advanced equipment on board.
Even in order to adapt to the navigation of high-altitude seas, there was an ice-breaking device on the Yuejin, and everyone was full of expectations for the Yuejin at that time, and no one expected that the Yuejin would have an accident.
If, as the United States and Japan have said, the sinking of our country's leap forward was done by other countries, and the leap forward is of such great significance, then this country's act of sinking our torpedo means that it is a war against our country.
It will even lead to wars between multiple countries, which is too serious, and our country must solve this matter in the right direction.
He immediately said that the details of the incident at this time had not yet been investigated, so it was still up to to him whether what Japan said was the truth.
You must know that the international situation at that time was very complicated and delicate, and if our cargo ships caused a war, then what should our country do?
Immediately after that, *** personally presided over the meeting and listened in detail to the experience of the captain and the crew, because these were the people who witnessed the truth on the ship at that time.
** Listening carefully, it was found that most of the crew members, except for the captain, said that they thought the Yuejin had been attacked by a torpedo fired from a submarine.
Because before the Leap Advance sank, they clearly heard the muffled sound of the ship, and it was as if they saw a dark shadow.
But when *** asked the captain, the captain affirmed: It was not a torpedo attack at all, it was a reef, and the sound that everyone thought was a torpedo attack was actually the sound of the ship hitting the reef.
The captain even said categorically that he loves military affairs, so he knows that so far, there is no torpedo like everyone in the world, and the sound is small enough to sink such a large ship.
** Considering this possibility, the captain had a lot of experience sailing, and what the captain said was indeed true, there was no such advanced torpedo at that time.
However, the captain's opinion was refuted by the ship's commissar, who said that the ship had never deviated, and that it was impossible for the ship to hit the reef at that time.
The first mate on the ship began to refute the ship's political commissar again, saying: The weather was so bad at that time, there were no shore markers, how do you know that we really did not deviate.
At the meeting, the crew on the ship began to argue, and they all had their own opinions, ** understood that there was no way to determine the truth of this matter only by listening to the crew's statements, and only after further investigation could the truth be revealed.
So *** immediately ordered and ordered all the staff: This matter must be investigated in detail and strictly investigated to the end!
At the same time, China issued a statement on the truth about the sinking of the Yuejin: saying that China attaches great importance to this matter and is investigating.
On May 4th, the members of the investigation team began to prepare for further investigations, and ** personally took charge of following up on the matter and said that the truth of this matter must be ascertained, and it must be truth-seeking, and it cannot be deceitful!
He also said that this is a major event after the founding of New China, and it may not only affect our relations with other countries, but also affect our image in the international community
Because the place where the Yuejin sank is already on the high seas, great care must be taken during the investigation.
The next step is to investigate how difficult it is to find out how difficult it is.
The Yuejin has sunk deep into the depths of the sea, and in order to find out what is really going on, you have to dive to the deepest depths, find the Yuejin, and then conduct a detailed investigation.
But it was too difficult, and the deepest depth that Chinese divers could dive at that time was only 42 meters, but the Yuejin had sunk to a depth of more than 60 meters.
Such a difficult dive is definitely life-threatening for divers.
** They were also very worried about the safety of the divers, so they tried their best to equip the divers with the best air compressors and air tanks, and bought the most advanced underwater cameras from Hong Kong.
On May 19, the investigation team came to the sea area where the Yuejin sank and began to search for traces of the Yuejin.
It was not until May 21 that everyone found traces of the Yuejin, mainly the corn and other items carried by the Yuejin at that time.
Finding the ship's tracks, it's time for the divers to dive down and start looking for the ship.
Another reason that threatens the safety of divers at this time is that corn is one of the sharks' favorite food, and the Yuejin carries so much corn that everyone is worried about whether it will attract sharks.
Therefore, the investigation team sent a lot of motorboats and hunting submarines to interfere in the waters near the Yuejin to ensure the safety of the divers.
It didn't take long for a diver named Yan Shifa to finally find the ship!
The next step is to find the truth on the sunken Leap Forward, and the truth will soon be revealed.
The investigation team found that there were depressions in five places on the hull of the Yuejin, and there were three holes, but the main body of the ship was intact, which was clearly not caused by torpedoes.
And the most important thing is that the place where the ship sank, in fact, as the captain and the first mate said, was very close to the reef, and fragments of rocks were also found on the reef, and there was also the paint of the Yuejin on the reef.
All this proves the truth about the sinking of the Leap Forward, which is what the captain said: it hit a reef and sank.
All rumors were self-defeating, and all discussions and rumors in the world disappeared at once.
China also planned to salvage the Yuejin, but this task was too difficult, so everyone took all the important items on board and left the sea.
The Yuejin sank in the deep sea, which is a pain in the hearts of every Chinese, but fortunately, it did not cause serious international disputes, and also allowed China to establish an image of honesty and honesty in the international community.
Although the Yuejin sank, it witnessed the history of our country, the development of our shipbuilding industry, and our country's ability to deal with things calmly in the face of international disputes.
In fact, *** already had his own guess when the survey team went to investigate, because *** had a detailed understanding of that sea area, there were a lot of reefs there at that time, and when the draft of the huge Leap Forward was greater than the distance from the reef to the sea surface, the ship would definitely hit the reef.
And as the first mate on the Yuejin said, the weather was so bad at that time, and it was common for ships to deviate.
Later, after investigation, it was found that the staff of the Yuejin were not experienced enough, and many of the crew members were temporarily appointed to work on the ship.
All this led to the accident of the Yuejin, and after the investigation of the incident was clear, ** also severely criticized the people involved.
The incident of the Yuejin finally came to an end, but this incident was definitely a lesson for my country's steamship industry, and the later staff also began to learn a lesson, which led to the rapid development later.
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