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Yang Liwei's small file (Source: People's Liberation Army Daily)

Nationality: Han nationality Date of birth:1June 2, 9651.

Native place: Suizhong County, Liaoning Province

Political views: members of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

Height: 168cm

Weight: 65 kg

Family members: wife and son Yang.

Resume:/kloc-0 joined the army in June, 1983, and/kloc-0 graduated from the Eighth Flying Academy of China People's Liberation Army Air Force in 1987. He has served as a pilot and squadron leader of a certain division of the Air Force. He has been flying fighters and other planes 1350 hours, and was rated as a first-class pilot. Now he is a third-class astronaut of China People's Liberation Army Astronaut Brigade. 1996, participated in the astronaut primary election and was shortlisted; 1998 65438+ 10 month, standing out from more than 800 finalists and becoming one of the first astronauts in China; In the preparation stage of Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft launch, the expert group voted by secret ballot and was selected as the "three-person first flight echelon", and was determined as the chief candidate.

Yang Liwei's voice

Before the expedition, Yang Liwei confided his heart to the soldiers of the whole army when answering a reporter's question at the press conference of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

Our reporter asked: what do you want to say to your comrades in the three armed forces through the military newspaper? Yang Liwei: As an astronaut, I am a soldier of the Republic first. As a soldier, through so many years of training and education, I believe that in carrying out this task, I will be able to carry forward the glorious tradition and fearless revolutionary spirit of the people's army, obey orders and commands, overcome all difficulties and resolutely complete the task. I also want to thank our comrades-in-arms of the whole army for their encouragement, care and love through the military newspaper, and please rest assured that I will live up to your expectations and add color to our military flag.

"For the peace and progress of mankind, China people came to space!" On the occasion of boarding the Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft, Yang Liwei, the first astronaut in China manned space flight wearing a spacesuit, wrote this sentence passionately for reporters.

The Chinese are coming, and Yang Liwei is coming! June 65438+10/October 65438+May 9, 2003, with the 38-year-old Lieutenant Colonel astronaut Yang Liwei flying into space in a manned spaceship designed and manufactured by China, the Chinese dream for thousands of years finally came true, and China became the third space power to send astronauts into space after Russia and the United States.

The whole world has remembered the name of a China person-Yang Liwei.

Flying fighter for ten years

On June 2 1 965, Yang Liwei was born into a scholarly family in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province.

Yang Liwei's father was a college student who graduated in the early 1960s. My father became a teacher first, and then he did administrative work in an agricultural and sideline products company in Suizhong County. My mother worked as a Chinese teacher in a middle school in the county until she retired. He also has a sister and a brother. Five people in the family live in harmony and live a comfortable and peaceful life.

"Doing things in a down-to-earth manner and being an honest man" are the requirements of Yang Liwei's parents. As a child, Yang Liwei is smart, quick-witted and has a doll head. When he graduated from primary school, he was admitted to the top class of the county key middle school with excellent results, and participated in the county middle school mathematics competition many times, winning many awards.

1In the summer of 983, 18-year-old Yang Liwei was admitted to the Eighth Flight Academy of the China People's Liberation Army Air Force. During his four years of college life, his academic and training achievements have been excellent.

1987, Yang Liwei graduated from the Flight Academy and became a fighter pilot in a division of the Air Force. With natural intelligence and hard work, he quickly became a top pilot in the division and later became an excellent fighter pilot. 10 years, he flew from north China to northwest, and from northwest to southwest. The blue sky of Wan Li motherland left his vigorous figure.

1in the summer of 992, Yang Liwei's unit came to an airport in Xinjiang to perform training tasks. On that day, he put an eagle at an ultra-low altitude over Lake Aiding in Turpan. Suddenly the plane made a loud noise, and the instrument showed that the cylinder temperature suddenly rose and the engine speed dropped sharply! Yang Liwei understood that he had encountered a serious "air parking" failure, and one of the aircraft engines did not work! At an emergency, Yang Liwei was unusually calm: Be sure to fly the plane back!

He firmly grasped the joystick, slowly closed the throttle, and drove a fighter plane with only one engine, climbing up a little. 500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters, the plane crossed Tianshan Mountain and flew to the airport. Near the runway, the rest of the engines didn't work either. He decisively took emergency landing gear release measures and successfully landed the fighter plane that had completely lost power on the runway.

When he got out of the cabin, his flight suit was soaked with sweat. Comrades gathered around to hug him. The colonel excitedly announced on the spot that he would give Yang Liwei a third-class merit.

The correct handling of this "special situation in the air" shows Yang Liwei's excellent psychological quality.

Stand out from the 800 finalists

1In the early summer of 1996, Yang Liwei, who is 1.68 meters tall and weighs 65 kilograms, was informed that he would go to Qingdao Sanatorium to take part in the physical examination of the astronauts' primary election. After passing the preliminary examination, he was informed to take the clinical examination in Beijing Air Force General Hospital. Yang Liwei was happy and came three days early. The nurse joked with him, "Are you too active?"

Next, he came to the Beijing Institute of Aerospace Medical Engineering to participate in the "special inspection", that is, the inspection of aerospace physiological functions.

Gagarin, the first astronaut in the former Soviet Union who flew into space, once described his participation in the physical examination of astronaut selection: doctors should look for hidden defects in everyone besides checking their health. They use all possible biochemical, physiological, EEG and psychological methods as well as special functional tests for examination. Check us in all kinds of very thin air pressure chambers and rotate us on centrifuges. All this took several weeks and wiped out many companions.

China should also "go through five hurdles and cut six generals" when selecting astronauts. Medical clinical examination should examine dozens of organs of human body one by one. The follow-up examination of spatial physiological function is more demanding, and it needs to rotate quickly on the centrifuge to test the overweight endurance of the subjects in the direction of chest, back and head and basin. Subjects rose to 5000m and10000m respectively in the low-pressure test chamber to test their hypoxia tolerance. The vestibular function of the subject should be checked on the rotating seat and swing. A few months later, there were only a few more than 800 finalists left.

Yang Liwei successfully passed one hurdle after another. The last check he did was "10,000-meter hypoxia and low pressure check". This requires removing oxygen and nitrogen outside the cabin, and then sitting in the cabin simulating the low pressure of 10 thousand meters. When he descended from the simulated height of 10 thousand meters, he thought, "It's all over at last." He felt very relaxed and subconsciously touched his head. As a result, the doctor was nervous. After coming down, ask him, "Are you uncomfortable up there?"

Yang Liwei is the luckiest and the best. His clinical medicine and aerospace physiological function indexes have reached excellent, conquering all the experts in the selection Committee. 1998 65438+ 10, as one of the first astronauts in China, Yang Liwei came to the Beijing Astronaut Training Center with dreams and pursuits.

In the middle of winter, the climate in Beijing is particularly cold, and his heart is warm. He and a dozen other astronauts visited the rocket system, flight system and measurement and control system of China's manned spaceflight project and listened to the lectures of experts. His understanding of the astronaut profession has changed from the initial mystery to profound.

He learned that in the decades after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China had its own missiles, atomic bombs and artificial earth satellites, and now it has begun to sprint to manned space flight; Behind him and other China astronauts, there are many unsung heroes who silently contribute, and thousands of troops from Qian Qian are holding China's "Shenzhou".

He thinks that China had the dream of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon in ancient times. For thousands of years, many scholars have written touching poems for this, and thousands of people have made extremely tragic attempts. Now, the flying of the Chinese dream will become a reality with his participation and efforts!

Yang Liwei can't help but feel excited and proud of this!

Strive to climb the "ladder to heaven"

Alexei leonov, a former Soviet astronaut who was selected with Gagarin, once called the training stage of astronauts "a ladder to heaven". His companion Valery Bekowski added: "This is not a short ladder." They are right.

The first step of Yang Liwei's climbing is basic theory training. I have been a pilot for 10 years, and now I am sitting in the classroom again. More than a dozen courses, such as the basis of manned spaceflight engineering, the basis of aerospace medicine, anatomy and physiology, and star recognition, should be learned from the beginning.

When leaving the air force, the teacher who saw him off once said to him, "I have nothing to worry about your health and training." But you may have to face the challenge of learning many new things. "At that time, Yang Liwei didn't care too much about this.

I feel it now. He called the class teacher: "You are right! Now I am doing my homework like a student preparing for the college entrance examination every day. "

Yang Liwei was born unwilling to lag behind. At the thought of his sacred mission, he even forgot to eat and sleep. He recalled: "In the first two years, I didn't sleep before 12 pm."

He used to have a poor foundation in English. In order to remember words and sentences, he calls home from the astronaut apartment every night and asks his wife Zhang Yumei to ask questions on the phone. Over and over again. Later, he actually got 100 in the exam.

The second step, space environment adaptability training. This is a very hard training. Take "Overweight Endurance" training as an example. When the spacecraft returns to earth in ballistic orbit, the overweight value will reach more than a dozen "G", that is, people have to bear the pressure equivalent to more than ten times their own weight. Under normal circumstances, it is easy to cause people to breathe extremely hard or stop, lose their will, and even directly affect their life safety. Yang Liwei must strengthen his overweight endurance through training.

"Centrifuge" training is the most effective form for astronauts to improve their overweight endurance. In the rotunda, Yang Liwei sat in a cylinder with an iron arm more than 8 meters long. During the high-speed rotation of 100 km/h, he should not only practice anti-load movements such as tense abdominal muscles and abdominal breathing, but also answer questions and interpret signals at any time to maintain his agile judgment and reaction ability.

The centrifuge is rotating, and the load is gradually increased from 1 g to 8 g. Yang Liwei's facial muscles begin to deform and sag, and the muscles are pulled down, and his forehead is raised high. The head and basin are too heavy, and his blood presses to the lower limbs, causing cerebral ischemia and dizziness; When his chest and back are overweight, his chest and back are like a boulder weighing hundreds of kilograms, which causes his heart to beat faster and he has difficulty breathing. Every time he trains, he has to pay huge physical exertion.

Yang Liwei is a thoughtful person. He knows that the methods of resisting load taught by teachers rely on personal experience and exploration in practice. Therefore, every time he trains, he consciously practices according to the method of personal experience, communicates with the teacher in time, sums up experience, grasps the strength and frequency of load resistance, and slowly explores the laws and methods, so that this challenging and harsh training gradually becomes easier.

The training of "swivel chair" and "bow down" is also unbearable for ordinary people, but Yang Liwei also did a good job.

On a rest day, when his wife came home, she found him spinning around in the living room alone. She was very surprised and asked, "What are you doing?" He said: "In a couple of days, we will evaluate the swivel chair training. I will stimulate myself first. "

An old expert with high requirements for astronaut training proudly said: "Yang Liwei is the best in swivel chair training. He is my most proud student. "

Similarly, a few days before doing the "bow down" training, Yang Liwei stopped sleeping with a pillow at night. According to him, it is also to "stimulate yourself first."

Other "ladders" include physical training, psychological training, professional and technical training, flight procedure and mission simulation training, life-saving and survival training, and so on. Yang Liwei, with his incomparable love and persistent pursuit of the aerospace industry, is strict with himself and strives for perfection in everything, and his training results have become the best among his peers.

Nothing can affect my training.

Yang Liwei's wife, Zhang Yumei, used to be a middle school teacher. Later, she was specially recruited as an archivist in the army. She is quiet and weak, and her husband sings with her after marriage. In order to support her husband's career, Zhang Yumei undertook all the housework, even when her son was born, which did not delay her husband's work.

My son Yang is in the third grade of primary school. Xiao's biggest hero is his father. When the teacher asked him to write a composition, he took a photo of his father and wrote a poem "The Magnificence of Father". He wrote: "I feel very proud and proud to see my father's selfless dedication and hard training for the aerospace industry of the motherland in the photo." This composition was later published in the school's Composition Guide, and Xiao Kangning also got the manuscript fee of 18 yuan.

In July, 20001year, his wife Zhang Yumei was hospitalized due to illness and needed surgery. Zhang Yumei said: "When I was pushed into the operating room, I was heartbroken to see Yang Liwei's eyes that I had never seen before."

After the operation, Zhang Yumei was so weak that he lay in bed for 24 hours and didn't dare to move at all. However, on the third day after the operation, Yang Liwei will bid farewell to his wife and go to an air base in Jilin to conduct high-altitude flight training for astronauts.

The day before departure, he sat in the chair beside his wife's bed all night, and then returned to the astronaut brigade without hesitation.

The leader of the brigade said, "Your wife is very ill. Are you ... "

Yang Liwei said, "Please rest assured, I have asked my old mother to come and take care of me. Nothing can affect my training. "

Yang Liwei completed this high-altitude flight training cleanly and achieved excellent results again.

The brigade leader told the reporter: "On the one hand, there is a seriously ill wife, and on the other hand, there is intense training. The pressure of Yang Liwei can be imagined. However, his training performance is steadily improving and he is always among the best among his peers. "

Voted as the "chief candidate" by the expert group.

Choose the best among the best, and choose the best among the strong. In the preparatory stage of the launch of Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft, Yang Liwei was selected as the "Three-person First Flight Echelon" by secret ballot of the expert group, and was honored as the chief candidate for his excellent training achievements and comprehensive quality.

Yang Liwei is committed to intensive training.

Most of the time, he stayed in the "spaceship simulator". Spacecraft simulator is a professional technical training place to simulate the spacecraft environment in equal proportion on the ground and train astronauts in space flight procedures and operations. It is often said that one minute on the stage takes ten years off the stage. It takes tens or even hundreds of hours for the spacecraft to launch into orbit and then adjust its attitude to return to Earth, with thousands of flight program instructions and more than 100 operations. The red and blue indicator lights on the dashboard in the engine room are dense, various lines are criss-crossed, and various facilities and products are scattered. To be familiar with and master them, and be able to carry out various operations and troubleshooting, only through repeated drills.

Yang Liwei found all the equipment diagrams and electrical switch diagrams in the cabin and posted them on the dormitory wall to memorize them at any time. He also used a small camera to record the internal equipment and structure of the cockpit, input it into the computer, and carved a CD for himself to watch in his spare time.

Every training, Yang Liwei's eyes are always so bright, all inspections are always so detailed, and every movement is always in place. He won the praise of the teachers with his earnest spirit and skilled technology. In the final stage of professional and technical examination, the teacher set him many fault traps, which he could quickly find and eliminate. After each assessment, the teacher asked him, "Is there anything wrong with your homework?" He confidently replied: "There is nothing wrong!"

Five normal flight procedure exams, he scored 99 points twice and 0/00 points for three times, ranking first in the comprehensive evaluation of professional technology.

On the eve of the launch, Yang Liwei came to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to participate in the joint test drill of "man, ship, arrow and earth".

At this moment, Yang Liwei, who has experienced a lot of trials, is already familiar with the flight procedures and operational procedures of the spacecraft. He confidently told reporters: "Now as soon as I close my eyes, I can think clearly about the positions of all instruments and switches in the cockpit; Name a piece of equipment in the engine room casually, and I can immediately think of its color, position and function; I can recite the operation manual I need to read during the operation. If I encounter special circumstances, I can handle it without reading the manual. "

When the spacecraft is actually launched, about 3 minutes and 20 seconds after takeoff, the "fairing" outside the cockpit will be thrown away according to the procedure. At this time, astronauts can start to see the sky outside the porthole. However, during the exercise, this can only be an imaginary situation and will not actually happen. Therefore, the bosses in the command hall didn't expect the astronauts to react at this time.

The drill is going on, and Yang Liwei in the cockpit of the spacecraft is doing all kinds of prescribed actions meticulously and nervously. Just three minutes and 20 seconds into the program, Yang Liwei's resounding report came from the hall of the command center: "The fairing was thrown away, and I saw the sky outside the window!"

A boss was surprised to ask Su Shuangning, director of the Institute of Aerospace Medical Engineering: "You astronauts are trained so well that you even know this?"

As the commander-in-chief and chief designer of the astronaut system of China's manned spaceflight project, Su Shuangning is proud: "Just kidding, what do you know, can he not understand?" ! "Space round trip, China in five thousand.

Since Gagarin, hundreds of astronauts have traveled in space in various spacecraft. Today, the people of China have leapt into the advanced ranks of the world with their wisdom and courage.

Before the first flight, Yang Liwei's psychology teacher once asked him, "Have you ever thought about what it's like to really fly in a spaceship?"

He smiled and replied, "I think I will be more relaxed than usual." Let me fly in peace! "

Oh, Li Wei! You shoulder the great trust of the Chinese nation and greet the eyes of the whole world with a smile. The Milky Way dances for you, and the morning sun sends you to triumph!

(This article was written by Xi Qixin, Liu Cheng, Wu Chuansheng and Yang Yongzhen. Our reporter Wang Wenjie, Fan Juwei)

Relatives are brave for you.

● Our reporter Du and Ding Haiming.

In the early morning, in the sporadic autumn rain, standing in Beijing Aerospace City, the first snow on the western hills is clearly visible.

Today is the day when China's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, bid farewell to Beijing Aerospace City and went to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. At 7: 30, Yang Liwei's wife and children stood in the farewell team early, waiting for their loved ones to go out.

At 7: 45, Yang Liwei came in uniform. Unexpectedly, his farewell to his relatives was unexpectedly calm, as calm as usual at work.

Yang Liwei came to his parents and said to the old man, "It's cold. Put on more clothes and don't worry about me. " After that, he turned and smiled at his wife, without tears or hugs. There are so many people around, my wife doesn't know what to say at the moment. She suddenly asked, "Do you have any casual clothes?" He smiled and asked, "What are you doing in casual clothes?" This made everyone laugh. Yang Liwei leaned over and kissed his son.

The son said mischievously, "Dad, come back early and teach me to play games."

Reporters have seen all kinds of soldiers say goodbye-going to the battlefield, going to the flood control levee and going to the snowstorm border ... However, they have never seen such a major and epoch-making farewell, so relaxed.

"Are you really not nervous?" The reporter asked. "What are you nervous about?" Yang Liwei answered with a smile. "The party and the country attach so much importance to manned spaceflight projects. Now that science and technology are so developed, our country's technical force is so strong. I believe in the party and the country, in science and technology, and in my lover! " Wife Zhang Yumei summer-planting said.

The reporter deeply felt that Yang Liwei's home is a warm and happy home. Yang, a 69-year-old father, is a retired cadre of an agricultural and sideline products company in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province. Wei Guilan, the same age as her father, is a retired middle school teacher. She came from her hometown to do heroic deeds for her son. The two old people also brought 5 Jin of crabs, her son's favorite. Zhang Yumei, the wife of an archivist in a certain department, is Yang Liwei's hometown. She saw Yang Liwei's "name" in the county annals, so she had this romantic love. Yang, an excellent son and a third-grade pupil, has been preparing a gift for his father for a long time. It is an essay "The Glory of Dad" published in the composition guidance: "I am proud of having a good father ..."

When her husband was about to go to war, her wife whispered in her ear, "Don't forget to call …" Yang Liwei nodded vigorously.

At 9: 20, Yang Liwei took the opportunity to fly to a distant place with the entrustment of his relatives, the hope of the whole country and the dream of the Chinese nation. ...

(Beijing, 65438+ 10 month, 12)

The sky is bound to bring good news.

● Our reporter Du and Ding Haiming.

The cold current adds a bit of winter flavor to Beijing in late autumn. Yang Liwei left Beijing, leaving his relatives with thoughts and concerns.

12 at 8 o'clock in the evening, the phone at home rang. Zhang Yumei picked up the receiver, and her husband's familiar voice came from a distance.

First, the husband asked his wife, "How are our parents?" "Everything is fine." "How is your son?" "Very good." "What about you?" "Very good." "You all have to take care of yourself."

Then the wife asked her husband, "How was your day?" "Smooth." "How are you now?" "Everything is fine." "You should take care of yourself." "I will, don't worry."

It is these simple questions and answers that bring warmth and comfort to this small family every night after Yang Liwei left.

However, on second thought, on the phone, they intentionally or unintentionally bypassed the most sensitive topic.

"Have you ever talked about' once' or' in case'?" The reporter asked the hero's relatives to forgive this inevitable interruption.

"No, really not. There may be two reasons. First of all, we have almost absolute confidence in this launch. Then we all have a concept of military dedication: if it is worth paying, don't ask for anything in return; If you do your best, there will be no regrets. " Zhang Yumei's confidence and frankness are admirable.

Needless to say, on the occasion of the "Shenzhou" flying, Yang Liwei's relatives almost became the focus of media tracking. But they avoided cameras and flashlights, flowers and applause at a distance, and their lives were as dull and peaceful as ever. Zhang Yumei goes to work as usual, and his parents take the shuttle bus to school to pick up their grandchildren every day.

1998, Yang Liwei was elected as an astronaut, winning glory for the whole family. But the hardships of these years are only known to them. In the past few years, they have rarely been able to reunite with their families. Mr. and Mrs. Yang Liwei work in a big yard and seldom meet each other. Mother sprained her waist and didn't get out of bed for several months. Yang Liwei didn't know it at all. Zhang Yumei is in poor health and goes to the hospital for examination every month, but she has never let go of the burden of her family. When training was tense, Yang Liwei lived in an astronaut apartment and couldn't go home. She also talks to her husband at night. Not complaining, not complaining, but helping my husband review his English.

14 of the evening came. The clock ticks, and one minute is close to the moment when Shenzhou flies. Yang Liwei's son Xiao Kangning pointed to the night sky and asked his mother, "Mom, can I find my father in the sky tomorrow?" (Beijing, 65438+ 10 month, 14)

Li Wei, I applaud you.

-Shen Xingyun, the captain of the astronaut brigade, watched the launch of the spacecraft.

● Mou Jinjian

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignite!"

With a deafening noise, the God Arrow lifted the Shenzhou 5 manned spacecraft and stabbed the sky, and China astronaut Yang Liwei began the "flying" journey of the Chinese nation.

The crowd watching the launch cheered and celebrated this historic moment in a unique way. Shen Xingyun, the captain of the China Astronaut Brigade, couldn't help crying with joy.

In retrospect, Shen Xingyun was filled with emotion.

1998 65438+ 10, Yang Liwei and his comrades came to Beijing Institute of Aerospace Medical Engineering. Taking this as a symbol, the first astronaut brigade in the history of our army was formally established. In order to build this unique special force of the whole army, Shen Xingyun went to some units of the Air Force for field research, went deep into the front line of pilots' lives, and investigated and understood the rules of pilots' lives.

Shen Xingyun can't forget the hardships that Yang Liwei and his comrades have paid for more than five years. There are many basic theory courses, one subject at a time. They have classes during the day, rest at night, rest in other places and recite English words. Skills training is difficult. They face difficulties, have the courage to tackle key problems and practice hard one by one.

Shen Xingyun can't forget Yang Liwei, a shrewd young man, who is always full of energy and enthusiasm, and his wife refuses to delay training for surgery. In the five assessments of the first flight selection, he scored 2 9 9 points and 3 100 points, ranking first in the comprehensive assessment of professional technology, and became the "first flight astronaut" of China manned space flight. Li Wei, my good comrade and brother, I am proud of you and cheer for you!

(This newspaper Jiuquan 10 June 15)

Yang Liwei in the eyes of fellow villagers

● Jiao Yuqing Our reporter Korea Xian

Today, in Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, the hometown of the first "astronaut" of the Chinese nation and known as the "first county outside the customs", the villagers can't help but recall and tell the story of the hero yesterday. 1 When Yang Liwei was mentioned, Wang Suying, a retired teacher of Suizhong Central Primary School with 38 years of teaching experience, was full of energy: "I have taught more than 2,000 students, most of whom can't remember, but Yang Liwei left a deep impression on me."

The number is 1977. Wang Suying is the head teacher of Class 1, Grade 5, Suizhong Central Primary School. In this class, she still remembers two students: one is Gu David and the other is Yang Liwei. One day, the playful Gu Dawei was severely criticized by his husband. David Gu was very angry, so he didn't come to class. Looking at Mr. Wang's anxious appearance, Yang Liwei took the initiative to find Gu David to do the work. After a reasonable conversation, David Gu not only happily picked up his schoolbag, but also took the initiative to apologize to the teacher.

At that time, schools could not even afford chalk. Seeing this situation, several students decided to steal iron from a nearby factory and sold the money to pay the shift fee. After learning about this, Yang Liwei said to everyone: Although it is a good thing to plan class fees for classes, it cannot harm the interests of the state and the collective.

Teacher Wang Suying said, "Little Li Wei is good at self-study, and I like him very much. These two things make me remember very clearly ... "

My younger brother, Yang Junwei, works in the River Affairs Department of Suizhong County Water Conservancy Bureau. Speaking of my brother, he has a bright face. My brother has been a dazzling star in his heart since childhood.

When Yang Liwei was in middle school, Suizhong County was not fully electrified. Because life at home is difficult and he can't afford candles, Yang Liwei lights a kerosene lamp to read every night and often gets up the next morning. In winter, in order to save money, he warms up and reads books by the light of the stove every day. Because of hard work, I have been at the forefront of my class, especially in mathematics. I have participated in mathematics competitions organized by the school on behalf of my class for many times. On the road of Yang Liwei's growth, there was one person who had a great influence on him: old neighbor Zhao Zhongshan, an old-timer who joined the revolution in 1938.

Zhao Zhongshan has long since passed away, but Zhao Yi, who is also an old soldier, can't help laughing every time he mentions Xiao: My family has rich experience, and Xiao follows his uncle's ass every day to listen to his stories about the war years.

In the second day of junior high school, the school organized students to visit the air force near the station, and Yang Liwei saw the physical training of pilots. In order to develop a qualified physique, he made a detailed fitness plan for himself, including kicking shuttlecock, swimming and long-distance running. Even when he came home during the holiday, he asked himself to do a specified amount of pull-ups at the front door. In winter, skating is a good sport. Because he had no money to buy skates, he found two hacksaw bars and made a pair of skates himself. With the approach of the senior high school entrance examination, the study pressure is increasing, but Yang Liwei's exercise plan is firm. 3 "This child is very kind." This is what neighbors say the most.

In Suizhong town, Yang Liwei is recognized as a dutiful son. Before joining the army, he seldom made his parents angry. After I became a soldier, I was afraid that my parents would miss me, that is, no matter how heavy the task of study and training was, I would write a letter to my family every two days. It is said that boys are thick-skinned, but Yang Liwei thinks very carefully. He clearly remembers his parents' birthdays. Every birthday, parents will receive gifts from Yang Liwei.

In Gujiazi Village, Xiaozhuang Township, Suizhong County, Yang Liwei is a good son-in-law praised by everyone. 1990, Yang Liwei, who was visiting relatives in his hometown, married Zhang Yumei, a young woman from Gujiazi Village who taught in Xiaozhuang Township Middle School. Zhang Yumei has been in poor health since he came to the army. Every year he spends two or three thousand yuan to see a doctor and take medicine. Every once in a while, Yang Liwei tells Zhang Yumei to send money home. When I went home for my holiday, I specially brought some nutrients and medicines to the elderly.

Yang Liwei and his sister Yang Lijun have a special feeling: when they go to kindergarten, the state gives each teacher's child a quota. In order to let my brother receive a good education, my sister gave the quota to my brother. Because his parents are busy at work, Xiao Liwei goes to school every day, and his sister picks him up hand in hand. Nowadays, Yang Liwei is particularly concerned about the growth of his niece and often calls to ask about his study. My niece, a senior in high school, especially trusts my uncle. If she encounters any problems in her study, she will ask for help.

Speaking of the feelings of "young couple", it is a much-told story in my hometown. After Zhang Yumei joined the army, due to the nature of their work, they always divided more and got together less. Zhang Yumei does most of the housework by herself, such as taking care of the children and cooking. To this end, Yang Liwei always feels that he owes too much to his wife. 200 1 Spring Festival holiday, in front of many relatives and friends, Yang Liwei specially sang a song, and a song "Know You" made his wife cry.

My heart flies with you

● Wu Chuansheng, Mou, our reporter Wu

10 at 8 o'clock in the morning of June 5438+05, Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, stood by in the spaceship cabin to prepare for takeoff. The camera lens in the cabin transmitted his picture to the capital Beijing thousands of miles away.

At this moment, in the manned space command hall of Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Center, four special "spectators" could not help shouting softly in front of the big screen: "Children!" Li Wei!' "Dad!" ……

They are Yang Liwei's father Yang, his mother Wei Guilan, his wife and his 8-year-old son Yang. As special guests, they will see their relatives Yang Liwei off in front of the big screen in the command hall.

Aunt Wei Guilan specially dressed up today, wearing a red sweater under her coat and a touch of lipstick on her lips. The old man said, "Today is a happy day. Let's all cheer up!" " "

Staring at the husband on the screen, he held his son Yang's hand tightly in his own, as if afraid that the naughty son would hinder Li Wei. Small corning stared at two big round eyes, looking at wearing a milky white spacesuit.