At Li Siguang's memorial service, he was angry because there was no eulogy and read his daughter's letter
Li Siguang, an internationally renowned geologist, was an important figure in the discovery and construction of China's Daqing Oilfield. He made significant contributions to China's oil industry.
On April 29, 1971, this brilliant geologist passed away. At the meeting to mourn him, ** expressed strong dissatisfaction in front of Liu Xiyao and others.
What exactly happened to make the Prime Minister so angry? Let's unravel the mystery together.
Li Siguang, formerly known as Li Zhonghua, was born in 1889 in Huilong Town, Huanggang, Hubei. From an early age, his father had taught him that only through hard work could he change his destiny.
With excellent results, Li Zhonghua was admitted to Wuchang Higher Primary School at the age of 13. The elementary school has a monthly test, and students who score in the top five in the school have the opportunity to qualify for government-funded study abroad.
Li Zhonghua made up his mind to strive for this opportunity. It was when he was 14 years old that he finally got this opportunity. But when filling out the registration form, he accidentally put his age in the name field, but he didn't have enough money to change the form.
At this time, he had an idea, added the word "light" after the word "four", and changed it to Li Siguang. At the age of 15, Li Siguang entered the Tokyo Hongbun College, where he met and became friends with the famous revolutionary Song Jiaoren, who also studied in Japan.
It was in that year that Li Siguang came into contact with many ideas of democratic revolution, got acquainted with a group of people with lofty ideals in China, and began the road of revolution. In 1905, Li Siguang officially joined the China League, becoming one of the youngest members of the Association, which was appreciated by Mr. Sun Yat-sen.
After the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Li Siguang served as the head of the Hubei Army's ** Industrial Department, but resigned due to Yuan Shikai's usurpation of the fruits of the revolution. In 1913, Li Siguang went to Europe to study mining and geology at the University of Birmingham in England, where he obtained a master's degree.
In 1920, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei of Peking University, he became a professor and head of the Department of Geology of Peking University.
After in-depth research, Li Siguang became a geologist with a global reputation in the thirties and forties. In 1948, as a representative of the Geological Society of China, Li Siguang and his wife Xu Shubin went to London, England, and were invited to attend the 18th International Geological Congress, and have been living abroad since then.
At that time, the Kuomintang ordered the Institute of Geology in Nanjing to move south, but with the efforts of Li Siguang and his colleagues at the institute, they refused the Kuomintang's order to move to Guangzhou.
When Nanjing was liberated, the Institute of Geology also smoothly returned to the hands of the people. ** once praised: "Li Siguang is a person with backbone and ambition." At this time, the Liberation War was coming to an end, and Li Siguang understood that it was time to return to the motherland.
In addition, in March 1949, Guo Moruo led a team to attend the World Conference for Peace. Before leaving, ** specially asked Guo Moruo to bring a letter to Li Siguang, asking him to return to the motherland as soon as possible.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Siguang was personally nominated as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Taiwan side was extremely indignant when they learned of this, and they immediately instructed Zheng Tianxi, the ambassador to the United Kingdom, to go to Li Siguang and ask him to publicly declare that he refused to accept this post, otherwise they would notify Britain to continue to detain him.
Li Siguang's friend Chen Yuan immediately informed him when he learned of the incident and advised him to leave as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too late. Li Siguang originally planned to take a ship from England to Hong Kong, but the ship would not depart until half a year later, and it would definitely be too late, so he decided to take a freighter to France alone, and then transfer to Switzerland by train.
After receiving the news from Li Siguang, Xu Shubin sent the letter that Li Siguang had written to Zheng Tianci, the Kuomintang ambassador to Britain. In the letter, Li Siguang said that he would resolutely not do what they demanded, and at the same time, he also advised Zheng Tianci to see the situation clearly and stop helping the Kuomintang to do bad things.
Li Siguang's return to China was full of hardships, during which he lost contact with the outside world, but *** has been anxiously waiting for Li Siguang's return. Many people are persuading *** to give up the idea of Li Siguang returning to China, they think that Li Siguang served the Kuomintang before and is likely to go to work in Taiwan.
But *** always firmly believed in his own judgment, and he said firmly: "I don't believe that he went to the Kuomintang, he must have encountered some difficulties on the way back to China." ”
On June 6, 1950, Li Siguang and his wife finally arrived in Beijing, and relatives and friends welcomed them one after another. Li Jishen, Guo Moruo, Lu Ding.
1. Zhu Kezhen, Hua Luogeng, Ding Xilin and others expressed a warm welcome to his return.
After Li Siguang returned to China, he immediately devoted himself to the construction of New China, served as vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and participated in the second meeting of the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which was highly praised.
**Specially greeted Li Siguang: "Mr. Li Siguang, you are back, welcome!" Your speech at the CPPCC is very good! In September 1952, ** personally appointed Li Siguang as the Minister of Geology.
With the care and support of the company, Li Siguang has successively established the Geomechanics Research Laboratory and the Institute of Geomechanics, and has made important contributions to the research of geomechanics.
Later, at the enlarged meeting, Li Siguang, Qian Sanqiang and others made work reports together, focusing on the development of the atomic energy industry. It was at this meeting that China's strategic decision to develop its atomic energy undertaking was made.
Later, Li Siguang served as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and made outstanding contributions to the successful development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs in New China. In the early days of the People's Republic of China, there was a severe shortage of oil, and more than 80% of the oil had to be imported.
In 1954, under the instruction of the Ministry of Geology, the Ministry of Geology of China established the National Petroleum and Natural Gas Survey Committee, and Li Siguang, then Minister of Geology, served as the director of the Census Committee at the same time.
Li Siguang understands the importance of oil better than anyone else, and for a person who spent the first half of his life in the war, he knows that oil is not only the blood of industry for a newly established country, but also a shield.
The following year, the oil expedition set out in a majestic manner, carrying instruments and small hammers in their hands, and marched towards the census areas in all directions of the motherland. Li Siguang also led a team to the Northeast and the Songliao Plain in person.
Through research, Li Siguang created the concepts of "geomechanics" and "tectonic system", and the three subsidence zones of the new Huaxia tectonic system contain oil. This theory dispelled the fog of the "theory of China's oil poverty".
In 1956, the petroleum geological survey work progressed rapidly, and the discovery of many oil fields such as Daqing Oilfield allowed China's petroleum industry to develop rapidly. When the state planned to develop atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, it needed a large amount of uranium as raw materials for development, and Li Siguang guided the work of searching for uranium mines, and successfully confirmed his theory in practice, and several uranium deposits he discovered provided strong support for China's atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb development work.
In March 1957, ** approached Li Siguang and asked him if he would consider joining the Communist Party of China. Li Siguang felt deeply guilty, because he had always dreamed of becoming a Communist Party member, but because he did not join the revolution when he was young, and now that he is old, he is worried that he will not be able to play the role he should be, so he has never expressed his desire to join the party organization.
With the encouragement of ***, Li Siguang finally decided to submit an application for joining the party. At the end of 1958, he became a member of the Communist Party of China. In September 1959, good news came from the Songliao Plain, and the whole of China cheered when the first exploratory well produced a large amount of oil.
In his lifetime, Li Siguang finally witnessed the beginning of China's petroleum industry. Before liberation, China had only the Yumen oil field, an oil field with limited influence, and now all of this has been turned upside down.
This oil field in the Songliao Plain is the Daqing Oilfield. Since then, the Shengli Oilfield, Liaohe Oilfield, Zhongzhongtian, and North China Oilfields have been developed one after another, and the hat of China's oil-poor theory has been completely thrown into the Pacific Ocean by Li Siguang and his colleagues.
In the words of ***, it is: the Ministry of Geology and the Ministry of Petroleum have merit!
On the New Year of 1964, **cordially invited Li Siguang to Huairentang** modern Henan opera "Chaoyanggou", this scene was captured by the photographer, leaving an eternal memory.
Li Siguang later received an invitation from a staff member to go to the "Beijing Hall". As soon as he entered the door, he saw the *** in the room and hurriedly apologized to the chairman: "Chairman, I'm sorry, I made a mistake!" ”
** smiled and replied: "There is no mistake, I am looking for you." After that, the chairman warmly invited Li Siguang to sit down, and said humorously: "Old Li, you have a good Tai Chi fight!" ”
Li Siguang replied modestly, and the chairman knew that he had misunderstood his words, so he smiled and said, "Your geomechanics Taijiquan!" Li Siguang realized that this was the chairman's high praise for him and the vast number of oil workers, praising them for finding oil with the new Huaxia tectonic system.
In 1965, Li Siguang suffered from an aneurysm, and the prime minister immediately arranged for a doctor's consultation and reduced his workload. During the special period, the prime minister also sent commanders and fighters to protect his safety.
Li Siguang deeply felt the party's concern for him and was determined to dedicate himself to the party to the last breath.
In 1966, 8,064 people died and 38,000 were injured. He realized the seriousness of the losses caused by the disaster to the country and the people, so he decided to personally go to the disaster area for on-the-spot investigation.
Faced with the persuasion of relatives and friends, he said firmly: "I am doing this job, how can I be greedy for life and afraid of death?" His determination and courage were approved by ***, and he finally reached the disaster area as he wished.
On this basis, Li Siguang further studied and found that ** is a geological phenomenon, which is mostly caused by geological tectonic movements. He emphasized that the study, observation, analysis and mastery of the tectonic stress field are the most critical steps, which is an important discovery of the first work.
However, by 1969, Li Siguang's physical condition was deteriorating day by day, and his condition gradually worsened. He deeply regretted it, because he wanted to do a few more years for the first forecast research work and complete the unfinished task.
He felt that if he could not complete this work in his lifetime, he would be betraying the trust of *** and the party organization. Although Li Siguang's life was short, his contributions and spirit will always be remembered.
Li Siguang has always had a wish, which is to solve the problem of ** forecast. However, this wish ultimately failed to materialize, leaving him with regrets on the last day of his life.
He told his daughter that the only thing he couldn't let go of was that the forecasting work had not yet been successful.
On April 29, 1971, China's great geologist Li Siguang passed away. People found a note at his bedside that read: "We Chinese have the ambition and strength to overcome any difficulties in science and technology to develop this incomparably huge heat bank for the people's use." ”
In Li Siguang's last words, he hoped to convey his heart to *** through his daughter Li Lin. On May 3, 1971, ** braved the heavy rain to personally attend the farewell party of Li Siguang's body, but found that the funeral was not held in accordance with the regular procedures and specifications, but was hastily held in a small hall that could only accommodate about 10 people, and those who came to mourn could only stand outside the auditorium, drenched in rain.
When he learned that he had not prepared a eulogy for this scientist who was dedicated to the country and the people, the usually mild-mannered *** was rarely furious on the spot and severely criticized the person in charge.
** In front of the public, he said that he did not prepare a eulogy for Li Siguang, because our work was not completed in place. So, ** temporarily decided to take the letter he received from Li Siguang's daughter as a eulogy.
The letter contains Li Siguang's last words before his death, as well as his in-depth thinking on scientific research issues such as forecasting and geology and geothermal heat. When *** read his letter with tears, the listeners were all moved.
At the end of the memorial service, ** instructed the staff around Li Siguang to say that Li Siguang's posthumous works must be sorted out and Li Siguang's scientific spirit must be inherited.
Li Lin, Li Siguang's daughter, also has outstanding achievements. She graduated from the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 for her outstanding contributions to the Chinese physics community.
She has made fruitful research achievements, won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 1991, and has trained more than a dozen outstanding graduate students for the country, and published more than 160 articles.
However, she died of illness in Beijing on May 31, 2002, at the age of 79.
On September 14, 2009, Li Si was honorably honored"Since the founding of New China, Chinese people have been moved"One. This deeply touching scientist has been interpreted with his life"What the country needs, I want"ideas.
It is with scientists like them that our motherland has been able to rise rapidly. I believe that if they can see China today, they will be very gratified.
So let us always remember these great scientists. "