Ⅱ. Values and significance

2015年09月23日

(one) Qian Xuesen represents a spiritual monument. After the founding of new China, Qian Xuesen broke through various obstacles to come back to China where he devoted himself into socialist construction, making outstanding contributions in many fields, such as national defense, science and technology. Over several decades, Qian Xuesen had always bonded his fate  to the cause of the Party and the country, well exemplified the lofty patriotism, rigorous scientific attitude and noble moral sentiment as an intellectual.


(two) Qian Xuesen is a model of innovation. Innovation is the life of learning as well as the driving force for Qian Xuesen’s progress. Influenced by the idea of “saving the nation by engaging in industry”, Qian Xuesen chose the the study of railway as his major in his youth. After “the incident of January 28”, he became interested in aerospace knowledge and studied relevant curriculum. Later, with the ambition of “saving the nation through aerospace industry”, he went to the US to pursue master degree and Ph. D in aerospace engineering, during and after which he has made outstanding contributions to solving frontier aerospace problems in shell, shock wave, sonic barrier, thermal barrier, etc., and has put forward engineering cybernetics, physical mechanics and other subjects. After returning to China, he created the management system of separating administration from technology when he worked as the leader of Chinese aerospace industry. In his later years, he implemented the idea of system engineering into various aspects of life, proposing groundbreaking theories from the perspectives of recognizing and improving the nature. Qian Xuesen said: “following what others said is not true scientific spirit. The most important thing of true scientific spirit lies in innovation”. 


(three) Qian Xuesen is a treasury of thoughts. Qian Xuesen’s thoughts are extensive and profound, covering 11 major subjects including natural science, social science, geography, architecture, philosophy, etc. Making full use of the system science, Qian Xuesen has proposed many forward-looking viewpoints with guiding significance in various scientific areas. Many of his thoughts, for example, on political civilization and on sand and grass industry, have enormously influenced the public as well as the country.


(four) Qian Xuesen is an epitome of an age. Born in the early years of the Republican China and died in the critical period of reform and opening-up, Qian Xuesen was an exemplar of Chinese intellectuals who studied and worked hard to serve and develop the country with his knowledge, thus to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The trajectory of Qian's whole life best illustrates the Chinese Dream of our time. Therefore, focusing on the scientists who have made great contribution to the “two-bombs, one-satellite” project, Qian Xuesen Research Center aims at enriching the education of national spirit with patriotism as the core and the spirit of the times with reform and innovation as the core.