China News Agency, Beijing, June 27th. With the approval of Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Central Military Commission will select and award the "August 1 Medal".
According to the unified deployment of the Central Military Commission, after being nominated and recommended by various departments of the Central Military Commission and the party committees of major units, the Political Work Department of the Military Commission organized qualification review and assessment, and recently three nominees have been selected: Du Fuguo, Qian Qihu, and Nie Haisheng.
Du Fuguo, male, Han nationality, born in Meitan, Guizhou Province, was born in November 1991 and joined the army in December 2010. He is currently a first sergeant of a mine-sweeping and explosive-removal brigade of the Southern Theater Command.
Du Fuguo is a heroic and fearless demining hero who is loyal to his mission.
On October 11, 2018, during demining operations at the Bazi minefield on the west side of Laoshan, Malipo County, Yunnan Province, facing a weighted grenade partially exposed to the ground, he shouted to his comrades in the same group, "You step back and let me come. ”, when the situation was further investigated, he suddenly encountered an explosion. At the moment of life and death, he rushed to the side of his comrade-in-arms, blocking the blast shock wave and shrapnel, and he lost both hands and eyes forever.
Qian Qihu, male, Han nationality, from Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, born in October 1937, enlisted in the army in August 1954, former professor of the State Key Laboratory of Explosion Shock Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, School of National Defense Engineering, PLA University of Science and Technology, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Qian Qihu is a protection engineering expert who strengthens the army with science and technology and casts a shield for the country. He is the founder of modern protection engineering theory and the founder of the discipline of protection engineering.
For more than 50 years, he has climbed the peak of science and technology, established academic theories and technical systems from shallow buried engineering to deep buried engineering protection, from individual engineering to engineering system protection, from conventional resistance to ultra-high resistance protection, and formulated China's first civil air defense project. Protection standards, create a talent training system for China's protection engineering, solve a series of key technical problems in nuclear and conventional weapons engineering protection, and make great contributions to the development of China's protection engineering.
He has won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award, etc., and won the highest national science and technology award.
Nie Haisheng, male, Han nationality, from Zaoyang, Hubei Province, born in September 1964, enlisted in the army in June 1983, is currently a super astronaut of the Astronaut Brigade of the People's Liberation Army.
Nie Haisheng is a heroic astronaut who is dedicated to serving the country and making three patrols in space.
In 1998, he was selected as the first batch of astronauts in China. After years of hard training, he successfully completed the training tasks of hundreds of subjects in eight categories, including basic theory, professional technology, and mission simulation, and passed various assessments with excellent results.
In October 2005, he carried out the manned flight mission of Shenzhou VI, and cooperated closely with the astronauts in the same crew to achieve a major leap from "one person for one day" to "many people for multiple days" space flight; in June 2013, the implementation of Shenzhou X No. 1 manned flight mission and served as commander, and successfully achieved automatic and manual control rendezvous with the Tiangong-1 target aircraft; Successfully completed the autonomous and rapid rendezvous and docking mission with the Tianhe core module, stayed in orbit for 3 months, carefully organized two exit activities of the space station, and effectively tested the functional performance of China's new generation of extravehicular spacesuits and the collaborative work of astronauts and robotic arms. It is the first time for Chinese people to enter their own space station and become the first Chinese astronaut to stay in orbit for 100 days.
The "August 1st Medal" is the highest military honor decided by the Central Military Commission and issued by the Chairman of the Central Military Commission. It is awarded to people who have made great contributions and established outstanding achievements in safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and promoting the modernization of national defense and the military. , military personnel with far-reaching influence throughout the country and the entire army.
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