[Explanation] 70-year-old Zhang Changsheng is a villager in Zhangrenzhuang Village, Yanshan County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. With his love and dedication to aircraft, he established the country's first civil aviation museum.

Here, in addition to various aircraft components such as aviation instruments, black boxes, airborne radars, and integral engines, there are also a variety of aircraft models, as well as popular science books on aviation knowledge.

With his love and dedication to airplanes, Zhang Changsheng has saved more than 40,000 airplane parts and many airplanes in the past 20 years.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Changsheng

　　I have been studying these since I was a child. In the 1990s, I was working in a factory that dismantled airplanes. During my work, I found that many parts of the machine were destroyed. I felt it was a pity. Since then, I have started collecting Aircraft parts.

　　[Explanation] In 1997, Zhang Changsheng rented an open space in the countryside of his hometown and brought dozens of obsolete aircraft.

Airplanes of different models lay in the fields, attracting surrounding villagers to visit.

As the collection of aircraft and parts continues to increase, in 1998, Zhang Changsheng displayed part of the aircraft together with dozens of obsolete aircraft and established the country's first civil aviation museum.

In 2000, with the support of the local government, the Aviation Museum was transformed into an Aviation Science Museum.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Changsheng

　　The government's support and everyone's love made me feel that I had done something meaningful and made me even more obsessed with aircraft collection.

　　[Explanation] The "Hump Route" was a major air passage for China and the Allied Forces during World War II. As the route crossed the Himalayas, the flight conditions were extremely harsh. During World War II, China and the Allied forces lost more than 600 aircraft on this route.

In 2004, Zhang Changsheng heard that someone had found the wreckage of a US military plane that crashed on the "Hump Route". He flew to Kunming with a paper ticket. After several rounds, he finally carried the wreckage components back home.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Changsheng

　　I think these aircraft parts have great historical value, whether it is for aviation research, grassroots aviation education, or national defense education, they are of great help.

　　[Explanation] Some of the aircraft parts collected by Zhang Changsheng have become witnesses of an era.

He shared his collection of aircraft and parts with the society, donating 401 aircraft parts to the Civil Aviation Museum of China, and 11 aircraft to Shenyang Ligong University, Chongqing Normal University and other schools and scientific research institutions.

Today, 70-year-old Zhang Changsheng is immersed in the aviation science museum every day to explain aviation knowledge to visitors. He also serves as an "external counselor" and "national defense educator" in many primary and secondary schools.

　　[Concurrent] Zhang Changsheng

　　I hope that through my own efforts, more students can understand and love aviation and make the motherland's aviation industry more brilliant.

　　Xing Lu and Wei Xinmin report from Cangzhou, Hebei

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]