Content of Qian Xuesen's distress letter to the motherland

I write this short message with a lot of thoughts and I miss my motherland and my relatives and friends very much. I heard that the construction of the motherland is booming, and I respect it and enjoy it. Hinder my return to China. The ban was lifted in April, but I'm still in prison. The dream of returning home to serve the country is hard to realize, and the desire to visit relatives and friends in the province is hard to pay. I sincerely ask my motherland to help me return to my hometown, help me end my overseas career and repay my long-cherished wish to serve my country. Remember.

The source of this letter is that after being persecuted in the United States, Qian Xuesen used cigarette paper to ask for help from the motherland under surveillance.

The news that Qian Xuesen was persecuted in the United States soon spread to China, and friends in China's scientific and technological circles supported Qian Xuesen through various channels. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is extremely concerned about Qian Xuesen's situation in the United States, and the China government publicly issued a statement condemning the US government for imprisoning Qian Xuesen against his will.

1954 By chance, he saw Chen Shutong standing at the gate of Tiananmen Square as the vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) in the newspaper, so he decided to write to his father's good friend for help.

Just as Premier Zhou Enlai was anxious about this, Chen Shutong, then vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), received a letter from the other side of the ocean. He opened it and signed it "Qian Xuesen", originally asking the motherland government to help him return to China. ?

1954 in April, the United States, Britain, China, the Soviet Union and France held an international conference in Geneva to discuss the settlement of the Korean issue and restore peace in zhina. Zhou Enlai, head of the China delegation attending the meeting, thought that a group of overseas students and scientists in China were detained in the United States, so he instructed that since the Americans asked British diplomats to dredge relations with us, we should seize this opportunity and open up new channels of contact. ?

On June 5, 2004, Wang Bingnan, Secretary-General of the China delegation, held preliminary talks with US representative and Deputy Secretary of State Johnson on the national issues of the two countries. The United States submitted to China a list of overseas Chinese and some American soldiers detained by China, asking China to give them a chance to return home.

In order to show China's sincerity, Zhou Enlai instructed Wang Bingnan to make generous concessions in the third Sino-US talks held in June 1954, and also demanded that the United States stop detaining Qian Xuesen and other China students studying in the United States. ?

However, China's just request was unreasonably rejected by the United States. 1954 on July 2 1 day, the Geneva conference closed. In order not to interrupt communication channels, Zhou Enlai instructed Wang Bingnan to agree to hold consular talks in Geneva from July 22nd. 1954. To further demonstrate China's sincerity in the Sino-US negotiations, China released four detained American pilots. ?

China's concession was ultimately aimed at getting Qian Xuesen and other scientists studying in the United States to return to China as soon as possible. But on this key issue, US Congressman Johnson still refuses to let go of the real reason why China sent Qian Xuesen back to China.

From 65438 to 0955, after continuous efforts of Premier Zhou Enlai's diplomatic negotiations with the United States-even including the release of 1 1 American pilots captured in the Korean War, Qian Xuesen received a notice from the US Immigration Bureau allowing him to return to China on August 4, 1955.

1September 1955 17, Qian Xuesen's wish to return to China finally came true. On this day, Qian Xuesen, his wife Jiang Ying and a pair of young children boarded the ship "President Cleveland" and embarked on the journey of returning to the motherland. 1On October 8th, Qian Xuesen's family finally returned to the haunted motherland and hometown.

Extended data

Qian Xuesen left China with precious spiritual wealth. There are three spirits in Qian Xuesen that are worth learning and remembering.

First, noble patriotism. In 1950s, Qian Xuesen gave up his excellent working and living environment in America, resolutely broke through many obstacles and returned to his beloved motherland, determined to contribute his talents to the modernization of the motherland.

Second, the positive spirit of innovation, the spirit of "two bombs and one satellite" is the spirit of innovation. Without sufficient information and ready-made models, China aerospace military science and technology personnel represented by Qian Xuesen are determined to innovate, and China's own atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and missile were successfully developed in less than ten years.

Third, dedication and self-improvement. In 1950s and 1960s, Qian Xuesen led China aerospace military scientists and technicians to develop and test cutting-edge scientific and technological weapons in the worst natural environment in China, and made great contributions to China's national defense cutting-edge science and technology for decades.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Qian Xuesen