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In the middle of a vast blue.
A research ship broke the waves.
This is independently developed, designed and built in China.
A new generation of oceanographic research vessel "Science".
This is a comprehensive research vessel equipped with advanced scientific instruments.
It is known as the "mobile laboratory at sea".
Sailing for more than ten years.
Focus on exploring the big scientific questions in the ocean.
It will be China's marine science and biological science research.
Advance to the world's leading level.
What a lot of people don't know is.
More than 70 years ago.
China's marine biological sciences are almost blank.
A scientist for the development of marine biological science in China.
made a great contribution.
He is Tong Dizhou.
Tong Dizhou, a native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province (now Yinzhou District, Ningbo City), was admitted to Fudan University in 1923, and later came into contact with embryology as a teaching assistant with the famous biologist Cai Bao.
This discipline, which explores the birth and development of life, has also stimulated Tong Dizhou's interest in exploring the mysteries of life, which is also Tong Dizhou's dream: to pursue the truth of life.
In the summer of 1930, Tong Dizhou bid farewell to his wife Ye Yufen, and went to the embryology laboratory of the University of Brussels, Belgium for further study with the dream of "science to save the country".
At that time, in order to study the development of frog embryos, the laboratory had been working on an extremely difficult experiment for several years, that is, the outer membrane peeling of frog egg cells.
The frog's eggs are only 1 mm in diameter, smooth and round, and are tightly wrapped around three layers of film, which need to be peeled off with tweezers, which is very difficult to operate, and no one has been able to complete it for many years, even the tutor of Tong Dizhou is helpless.
No one expected that Tong Dizhou would peel off the thin film of frog eggs in just a few minutes under the microscope. A technical problem that had plagued the laboratory for several years was overcome. This successful experiment made foreign students look at him with admiration, and the professor began to pay attention to this young Chinese man.
In 1934, Tong Dizhou received his doctorate. Due to the great influence of many of his articles in the European academic community, the name Tong Dizhou began to spread in the world biology community.
Faced with such a talented and hard-working student, Tong Dizhou's mentor wanted him to stay in Belgium to continue his studies.
However, Tong Dizhou's fiery patriotic heart has already set the ambition of serving the country scientifically, and he can't wait to return to the motherland. 
In 1934, Tong Dizhou returned to the motherland with enthusiasm and came to Qingdao to serve as a professor in the Department of Biology of Shandong University. After the outbreak of the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Shandong University suspended its operation, and Tong Dizhou and his wife Ye Yufen took their children to and from place to place with Tongji University, Fudan University and other colleges and universities to avoid the war and moved south, and finally settled in Lizhuang Town, Sichuan.
At that time, Tong Dizhou was teaching in the Department of Biology of Tongji University, and the classroom was set up in a dilapidated temple, and there was not even a basic microscope, which made it difficult to teach and research embryology, which made Tong Dizhou very distressed.
Until one day, he saw binoculars in the grocery store.
Zhang Dongqing
Director of the Propaganda Department of the Ningbo Municipal Committee of the Democratic League
asked ** for 60,000 legal currency, 60,000 yuan is equivalent to two years' wages for him and Ye Yufen.
In that turbulent era, everyone's life was very difficult, Tong Dizhou and his wife had very little salary, and the family lived by eating sweet potatoes almost every day.
The son of the first week of childhood
Later, my mother was more "low-minded" and tried to borrow money from relatives and friends. finally scraped together enough money, but he raised the price, and the original 60,000 yuan became 650,000. Then try to make up the money, and finally buy the binocular dissecting mirror.
Under the difficult conditions of the Anti-Japanese War, Tong Dizhou led the students to study the embryos of frogs and salamanders, and discovered for the first time the movement of cilia on the epidermis of embryos. These **, which come out of a humble laboratory in a small town in southwest China, have reached the world's leading level.
In 1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Shandong University was reinstated, and Tong Dizhou served as the head of the Department of Biology, conducting scientific research and teaching and educating people at the same time.
On July 13, 1949, the "Preparatory Meeting for the First National Congress of Natural Science Workers of China" was held in Beiping, and Tong Dizhou was invited to participate in this meeting. Together with marine biologist Zeng Chengkui, he proposed that a Chinese marine research institute should be established.
In this first disclosed letter, the thoughts of the two scientists who are desperate to establish a marine research institute are clearly recounted. "The development of the oceans is also one of China's top priorities at present, covering not only the study of fisheries and aquatic products, but also the great economic value, that is, there are many people who need to study the oceans on issues such as national defense, navigation, and meteorology. China's coastline is more than 18,000 kilometers long, and there is no large-scale ...... for research so farIt is very desirable to set up a national institute of oceanography in Qingdao. ”
His proposal was quickly approved.
On March 9, 1950, the Government Council approved the establishment of the Qingdao Marine Biology Research Office of the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which was presided over by Tong Dizhou and Zeng Chengkui. On August 1stThe first professional marine research institute in New ChinaFormally established, Tong Dizhou served as the director, with a total of 30 rooms, marking the beginning of marine scientific research in New China.
In June 1957, the first scientific research ship of the People's Republic of China, the Venus, was born, and an unprecedented large-scale comprehensive marine survey began.
From the Bohai Sea to the Yellow Sea to the East China Sea and southern China, this large-scale comprehensive marine survey covers most of China's coastal areas, and basically finds out the "home" of the new China's oceans. These precious data provide an important data foundation for China's marine development and scientific research, and are permanently recorded in the history of China's marine science development