In 2009, a reporter from the Xinhua News Agency reported that Huang Danian, a well-known Chinese geophysicist and internationally renowned strategic scientist, returned to China, causing the US aircraft carrier squadron that was exercising in a certain sea area to retreat 100 nautical miles. The report sounded exaggerated and harsh at the time, even a little sensational.
In fact, this news was not first broadcast by China, and the first to broadcast this news was the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's three major comprehensive Japanese-language newspapers. At that time, Professor Huang Danian had just returned to the motherland, and it did not attract the attention of the first in China. Japan was able to take the lead in grasping and disseminating the news, which shows that Japan's intelligence work against China, even now, is very serious and careful.
At that time, many people did not know the significance of Professor Huang Danian's return to China, and did not pay too much attention to him. Out of the requirement of secrecy, the state also deliberately downplayed the news of Huang Danian's return to China. A scientist can be defined by Xinhua News Agency as a strategic scientist, which shows that his status is absolutely extraordinary.
In 1958, Huang Danian was born in a family of intellectuals in Nanning, Guangxi. Influenced by the family environment, Huang Danian has been very fond of learning since he was a child, and Huang Danian's primary, junior and senior high schools were studied in Xijiang Farm Primary School (now Dakai Experimental Primary School in Guigang City), Wuqi Middle School in Luocheng County and Fucheng High School in Guigang County (now Gangbei District Senior High School in Guigang City) respectively.
What really changed Huang Danian's life was his first job, in 1975, Huang Danian passed the recruitment examination and entered the Guangxi Sixth Geological Team in Guixian County (now Guigang City) and became an aerial geophysical exploration operator. As a geophysical operator, he was first introduced to airborne geophysics and fell in love with the profession. In 1977, after the resumption of the college entrance examination in China, Huang Danian was admitted to the Changchun Institute of Geology, which was later merged into Jilin University.
After graduation, Huang Danian completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the university, and obtained the qualification to study abroad and teach with excellent achievements. In 1991, Huang Danian was named associate professor. In 1992, Huang Danian was selected to study for a doctorate at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom with full funding from the "China-UK Friendship Scholarship Program".
In 1996, Huang received his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Leeds, UK. After graduation, Huang Danian returned to China to teach. However, soon after, Huang Danian was sent to the United Kingdom to continue to engage in high-precision detection technology research for underwater hidden targets and deep-water oil and gas, and served as a senior researcher at Arkex Aeronautical Geophysics Company in Cambridge for 12 years, serving as the director of the R&D department, doctoral supervisor, and training officer, and has been engaged in high-precision earth microgravity and magnetic field detection technology for marine and aviation fast-moving platforms for a long time.
In 1997, in order to obtain the world's top science and technology so that he could serve his country in the future, Huang Danian became a British citizen. After obtaining British citizenship, Huang Danian also won the trust of the British and American countries, and became a world leader in the field of aeronautical geophysics research through his efforts.
When he was abroad, Huang Danian, as the director of the R&D department of the Cambridge Geophysics Company in the United Kingdom, led a team of 300 people, including foreign academicians, to achieve a technological breakthrough in the implementation of ground penetrating precision detection in the complex environment of the sea and land through rapid movement. In March 2004, my father suddenly became seriously ill and was dying. Huang Danian is carrying out technical research in the field of "gravity gradiometer" in the field of military to civilian use at a depth of more than 1,000 meters.
The scientific research project that Huang Danian participated in was the world's top technology at that time and now, and it stands to reason that Chinese scientists like Huang Danian are not allowed to participate. If it weren't for Huang Danian's hard work, coupled with the strong recommendation of his British mentor, Britain and the United States would not have allowed a Chinese scientist to participate in it, let alone let him be the leader of this scientific research project. In order to obtain the technology of this project, Huang Danian did not return to China even after his father's death, he swallowed tears in his stomach and insisted on completing the experiment. When he returned to land, his father was laid to rest.
In 2009, Huang Danian received a secret email from China, asking him to return to China to preside over the construction of a scientific research project. Immediately after receiving the letter, he said to his wife, "Let's go back immediately." ”
But Huang Danian's wife was reluctant to go back, their home was next to Cambridge University in the UK, and the British ** built them a garden villa, and Huang Danian's wife also had two well-paid clinics abroad. Being able to have such treatment is something that countless overseas Chinese dream of.
Huang Danian's wife looked at her excited husband and didn't know how to answer him, but she also knew that returning to China was her husband's greatest wish. Huang Danian saw his wife's hesitation, and he could understand that his wife had such thoughts, but he was determined to go back, and he also knew the importance of his contact field, and it was impossible to leave his family abroad, so he half-jokingly and half-threateningly said to his wife: "If you don't dare to return to China this time, we can only divorce." ”
The wife was stunned after hearing this, and then her eyes turned red, so she had to agree to her husband's request. After Huang Danian picked up his daughter Huang Xiao and went home, he said to his daughter: "Dad has such an opportunity to return to China, do you support Dad?" Huang Xiao hugged her father's shoulders tightly and happily said that she firmly supported her father's idea.
After the news of Huang Danian's return to China reached his boss, his British boss immediately couldn't sit still, asked Huang Danian out to talk, and threatened him: "If you leave here, you must promise not to use the scientific research results here, otherwise the company has the right to hold you responsible." Huang Danian promised: "I will submit my resignation report, sign a confidentiality agreement, and abide by my promise for the rest of my life." ”
Huang Danian's boss was puzzled and asked him: "Give me a reason, why do you have to leave." Huang Danian said: "Because my motherland needs me." ”After negotiating with the boss of the company, Huang Danian did not delay for a minute and immediately prepared to return to China. When the wife left, she looked at the medicines piled up in the two garages, and the car was also thrown in the garage, and she was so distressed that she shed tears, but no matter how reluctant she was, he still firmly supported her husband.
On December 24, 2009, Huang Danian was appointed as a full-time professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Earth Exploration Science and Technology of Jilin University. In order to cooperate with him in scientific research projects, the state has dispatched more than 400 outstanding scientific and technological talents from universities and scientific research institutes from all over the country to cooperate with him to carry out research on two major projects: "high-precision aviation gravity measurement technology" and "development and experiment of key instruments and equipment for deep exploration".
After Huang Danian returned to China, his scientific research results were rarely made public, and his whereabouts were also very mysterious, once his students listened to him make a report, when he turned to a page of ppt, and suddenly he quickly flipped away, Mr. Huang said that this can't let you see, your teacher can't see it, this instrument is put in the sea, it is the Great Wall under the sea, and foreign submarines can detect it clearly.
In the seven years since he returned to China, Huang Danian has brought more than 400 scientists to create a number of firsts, and the research and development of aviation gravity gradiometer has directly shortened the advanced level of China and the world by ten years. The development of the "Crust No. 1" has made China the third country in the world to master this technology, and many of his colleagues do not understand that a university professor is not good at publishing a few articles and engaging in any equipment. Huang Danian smiled: "If I do any articles, I will return to China." I really want the country to become strong as soon as possible. ”
Huang Danian is a workaholic, and a colleague with him said: "Every night at half past nine, I take my children out for a walk, passing by Huang Danian's office, and when I look up, the lights in his office are on, unless he is on a business trip." ”In Huang Danian's office, carrying his one-year work schedule, it was densely packed. Whenever the assistant helped him book a plane ticket and asked him which flight he would take, he always answered the latest one without looking up. Because this is the only way to save as much time as possible. Once, Huang Danian suddenly fainted in the office, the assistant quickly helped him to the sofa, he told the assistant to take the quick-acting heart pill in the bag, after taking the medicine, he asked the assistant to go out, 20 minutes later, Huang Danian walked out of the office, and told the assistant not to tell others.
In November 2016, Huang Danian fainted on a flight from Beijing to Chengdu, and before he fainted, when he was vaguely conscious, Huang Danian hugged his laptop and told his assistant: "If I can't do it, please hand over my laptop to the state, the research materials in it are too important." "On the evening of January 4, 2017, Huang Dan suffered massive hemorrhage in his internal organs, elevated aminotransferases, and a tendency to liver failure. On January 8, Huang Danian never woke up because of bile duct cancer.
In the seven years since Huang Danian returned to China, he has brought out 13 doctors, 5 masters, and a large number of outstanding scientific researchers, and he has also used his overseas connections to recommend many students to world-class universities such as Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Before he died, he kept saying to his students: "You must go out, and if you go out, you must come back; It must be profitable, and it must be reported to the country. In the years after his death, a large number of students he brought out took over his work, and still made many achievements that were not inferior to those of him during his lifetime, and made significant contributions to China's national defense science and technology.