Chapter 137: China
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center, when it is about to usher in the launch mission of the first landing module to build a lunar base, has gathered the attention of the world.
After the basic plan for the construction of a scientific research base in a canyon on the far side of the moon was revealed at a press conference, it shocked all the experts at home and abroad. They really couldn't understand why setting up a base on the far side of the moon where there was no direct observation of the Earth was not only detrimental to the observation of the Earth, but also dangerous.
Because the moon has no atmosphere to burn off oncoming meteorites, establishing a scientific research base in a canyon, once it encounters a meteorite impact in a nearby location, it is very likely that the base will be hit by collapsing rocks, and the almost completely bare environment is very vulnerable to solar storms.
However, no matter how experts and the media judge the wrong location for the establishment of the lunar base, and no matter how negative opinions from all sides have accounted for more than 90 percent of all comments, the top leadership has no intention of changing its mind, and on the appointed day, the space capsule carrying the most basic lunar work vehicles and other basic materials has been installed on the rocket and will be lifted off.
This kind of big event can't be hidden from anyone, and the upper-level leaders have no intention of hiding it, anyway, the core thing, except for a limited few people, it is completely impossible for others to know.
The news media broadcast every day, and the officers and men on the Jiangsu ship were also watching, and perhaps many of them did not understand what it meant to build a base on the far side of the moon, but everyone was overjoyed, because this was the first time in modern history that China was truly ahead of all countries in the world in terms of science and technology.
China's current point has not been simple, but has been full of twists and turns. At the time when industrial civilization began to flourish from Western countries, China was still in a feudal society at that time, and China, which had gradually been in a backward position in the world since the Song Dynasty, no matter how much of the country's gross domestic product accounted for the world, compared with Western countries, the backwardness in science and technology became one of the reasons why China had to be reborn in the future.
When the five-star red flag of New China was erected for the first time, China at that time, in addition to having the name of a victorious country, was left on the vast land of the post-war ruins and devastation, not to mention military science and technology, and even the most advanced people's livelihood could not be fundamentally guaranteed.
However, military science and technology are the first line of defense to defend the homeland, and without sufficient deterrence, any country can easily knock on the door of new China. The leaders of the new China have not slackened their efforts to make scientific and technological progress, and in order to ensure the survival of the basic deterrent force, they have done their utmost to catch up with the developed countries of the West, even if they are backward and poor.
However, the new China, which has almost no basic industrial facilities, can only watch the scientific and technological strength of the developed countries rise at a rapid pace. The first nuclear weapon was someone else's, the first space exploration was someone else's, the first moon landing was someone else's, and many, many firsts were beyond the reach of modern China. Especially after World War II, although it is also one of the victorious countries, regardless of the development of science and technology, people's livelihood and economy, etc., compared with developed countries, except for the large land area, the others are really not enough.
If it were not for the toughness and wisdom of the country's leaders, if it were not for the people of the whole country tightening their pockets to support scientific research projects such as the two bombs and one satellite, if it were not for the financial support of the majority of overseas Chinese in foreign countries, and if it were not for the fact that overseas Chinese scientists returned to China in spite of the dangers and obstacles and wholeheartedly helped the poor and backward motherland to carry out scientific and technological construction, it would have been impossible for China today to gain a foothold in the world. It is simply impossible to make your own voice heard all over the world.
Of so many countries in the world, only five countries can become permanent members of the UN Security Council, and China is one of them.
Today's China, as a developing country, ranks among the world's second largest economies, although compared with the world's only superpower, the United States, is still far behind, but including the United States, which country dares to underestimate China? The frenzied growth of economic strength and scientific and technological strength has brought about sufficient voice and influence, and only in this way can we make steady progress on the road of peaceful development.
But becoming strong will inevitably mean that it will surpass other countries, no one likes to be surpassed by others, and the same is true between countries, coupled with the collision of different nationalities, different cultures and concepts, in terms of today's convenient information network to the global village, this collision is unprecedented and extremely intense.
Human beings always like to find a sense of superiority in objects that are weaker than themselves, which has nothing to do with morality, it is purely human nature, in the case of China itself, in today's era of the Internet, I don't know when it began, between different regions, all kinds of discrimination began to appear.
Urban people discriminate against rural people, northerners discriminate against southerners, women look down on men who have no money, men look down on women who worship money, the elderly feel that they are young and ignorant, and young people feel that the old people rely on the old and sell the old.
But no matter how it changes, one thing has never changed, no matter which province, which nationality, whether it is a man or a woman, as long as he enters the melting pot of the army, the army with the function of protecting the family and defending the country can train him or her, all of them into a hard state, bright and good steel.
The soldiers of the republic in the new era may not have the opportunity to participate in the war, and the word war seems to be far away from us, and the army that has not really fought to the death for a long time seems to be gradually losing its original combat effectiveness. But perhaps many people who evaluate the inadequacy of the military personnel of the republic have forgotten that compared to the army and soldiers who had no food to eat, did not even have a basic uniform in the past, and could not have excellent weapons, they relied on blood and faith, and relied on incomparably huge sacrifices to support the new China, but now, even our own soldiers have begun to suffer from contempt and ridicule.
There are cowards, there are naturally brave people who meet on a narrow road, there are traitors, and there are naturally iron-clad heroic sons and daughters, in the past 5,000 years, the land of China has changed dynasties, and there have been so many invasions, but when have the sons and daughters of China been conquered? Defeated, humiliated, and standing up again, a strong cultural heritage assimilates all invaders. Even the invaders themselves will be immersed in the magnificent Chinese civilization and eventually become the sons and daughters of China.
As long as there are places in the world that use square words, and there are people who use square words, Chinese civilization will never be broken.
PS: I'm not five cents, no one sent me money, the reason why this article came out is mainly because I browsed the post bar in the past two days, and found that many people are criticizing J-20 and other national key projects, they don't call J-20 J-20, they call it cheap 20.
I really can't understand the thoughts of this group of people, China still has a lot of imperfections, imperfections, and even hateful places, but China's progress today is also what we see with our eyes, and I will be happy for China's little bit of actual progress, at least not standing still or even going backwards. In the eyes of some people, every time China publishes a breakthrough in scientific research, countless people immediately rush out to make all kinds of criticisms, they seem to be unable to look at the problem rationally, anyway, as long as it is produced in China, it will immediately be a copycat, useless and so on.
As long as there is a disagreement with their ideas or opinions, immediately a group of people ridicule and disdain, immediately someone will position you five cents, cents, Japanese miscellaneous, etc., I once said on the Internet that the Japanese in terms of environmental protection are much better than many Chinese, and then I was defined as a Japanese miscellaneous, I also said that the American law of the sea is in some ways more deterrent and humane than the Chinese legal table, which is defined as cents, and I have also said on the Internet like this article, talking about the progress of the Chinese, and then it was said to be five cents.
I don't know a lot of things, but at least I think and learn in my cognition, I think I can discuss and learn problems with many people, but I don't seem to find such a place on the Internet, once I express a different opinion, I will be maliciously ridiculed and abused, online language violence seems to be just a very indifferent thing in the eyes of many people, they don't care if their words will hurt others.
Don't talk about it, if you really want to say it, I'm afraid it's something that can't be said.