Chapter 1162 Approaching the Spring Festival
As the Spring Festival approaches, Liu Tao returns to Beijing.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering hold a meeting of academicians of the two academies.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences elects 10 new academicians and the Chinese Academy of Engineering elects 15 new academicians.
In 2003, while the country was developing rapidly, nearly 20 academicians died of illness and passed away!
For example, Academician Su Buqing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is a famous mathematician and educator in China and the founder of the Chinese differential geometry school.
When someone dies, new academicians will be elected.
The spirit of passing on the torch from generation to generation is contained in this.
After the election of academicians of the two academies was completed, the 2003 National Science and Technology Award Ceremony was held.
This year's highest science and technology award was awarded to Academicians Liu Dongsheng and Wang Yongzhi. Academician Liu Dongsheng is 87 years old this year. He is an expert in the field of earth environment science research in China and a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known as the "Father of Loess". He graduated from the Department of Geology, Geography and Meteorology of Southwest Associated University and was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. He has been engaged in earth science research throughout his life, settled the dispute over the origin of loess for more than 170 years, established the most complete terrestrial paleoclimate record in the past 2.5 million years, and has been engaged in earth science research for nearly 60 years. In the scientific research fields of paleontology, Quaternary geology, environmental science and environmental geology, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and polar expeditions in China, especially in loess research, he has achieved a lot of research results, founded loessology, and led China's Quaternary research and paleoglobal change research to the world's leading ranks.
Academician Wang Yongzhi, one of the founders and academic and technical leaders of China's manned space program, served as the chief designer of China's manned space program for more than ten years and served as the dean of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Southwest Associated University.
The two won the highest science and technology award, which is absolutely well deserved!
This is also a recognition and high evaluation of the country for their hard work and outstanding contributions throughout their lives.
Academician Liu is 87 years old this year and is not in good health, while Academician Wang is 72 years old this year and is not young anymore!
However, since the reform and opening up, China's economy has developed rapidly and its investment in education has continued to increase. In the past 20 years, talents have emerged in large numbers, and there is no need to worry about the lack of successors.
Just like manned space flight, it is carried out once a year, and there will be two manned space missions a year in the future.
The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month is an auspicious day for marriage, marriage, engagement, opening and incense.
Liu Hongying and Qian Huaqiang's second son Qian Zhenhua held a wedding.
When Liu Tao and Zhu Lin took their children to the wedding, Liu Hongying's face was full of smiles. Liu Hongying, who is already 53 years old, does not look old. There is no white hair on her head and no obvious wrinkles on her face.
It's just that she and Qian Huaqiang have long been at odds. If it weren't for the children, Liu Hongying would have divorced Qian Huaqiang long ago.
Liu Zhenbang and Chen Fang, wearing new clothes, also attended the wedding of their grandchildren. These children grew up under their care.
Liu Zhenbang is 74 years old this year, and Chen Fang is 71 years old this year. They have physical examinations twice a year, once in the first half of the year and once in the second half of the year. Time does not age them. After they turned 70, they have a lot of white hair on their heads, but they are still strong, but they no longer travel outside most of the time like before. Now they spend part of their time in Beijing and part of their time in the south or in the Maldives for recuperation.
Both of them have pensions, and their children and grandchildren give them red envelopes from time to time, which is enough for them to spend.
Chen Fang held Liu Rui's little hand. Liu Rui is the son of Liu Jingming and Feng Nan. Now he is 9 months old and can stand and crawl.
As the eldest great-grandson, Liu Rui has been loved by everyone since he was born.
Even Liu Tao himself did not expect that he would become a grandfather at the age of 48. It is incredible to think about it.
The entire hotel banquet hall was contracted.
The guests included Liu Hongying's relatives, friends and classmates, Qian Huaqiang's relatives, friends and classmates, Qian Zhenhua's friends and classmates, and the woman's relatives and friends.
Qian Zhenhua's wife, Anna, has an extraordinary family background. She was born into an elite family in Boston. Her father, Conley, is currently a senator in the United States, representing Massachusetts, where Boston is located. There are only two senators in each state in the United States, and the term of office of senators is relatively long, a full six years, which is much longer than the two-year term of office of representatives.
As for Conley, he is naturally a Democrat.
The United States implements a system of separation of powers, that is, the separation of administrative districts, judicial power, and legislative power. Among them, the president controls the executive power, the chief justice has judicial power, and the legislative power is controlled by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Members of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are directly elected by voters in each state. Each state has two senators, a total of 100 senators, with a term of 6 years, and 1/3 of them are elected every two years. The House of Representatives is elected according to the population ratio of each state. A total of 435 members are elected for a term of two years.
Any government budget or decision-making bill must be submitted to the House of Representatives and Senate committees for review before it can be implemented.
The power of the senator is quite large.
It is no exaggeration to say that Conley is a member of the American ruling class.
Before the wedding, Liu Tao and Conley had a pleasant chat.
Conley is an American elite because he can become a senator. His family has a pivotal position in Boston and has considerable influence in the Democratic Party.
Conley himself is also a billionaire.
When the two sides chat, it is inevitable to be tentative to see if there is room for cooperation.
The two countries have been normalized for more than 20 years, and a large number of people have benefited. The vested interests are getting stronger year by year, and have become an important bridge, bond and ballast for exchanges between the two sides.
Of course, some people have suffered losses and always want to cut off ties with each other and let the United States return to the situation before 1979.
It's just that they are too naive, and the world has changed dramatically.
In more than 20 years, the whole world has changed dramatically.
It is no longer so easy to do the same thing as before.
The two sides are communicating under the same international order and international rules, not completely different, each with its own set.
Liu Tao has no prejudice against the Republicans and the Democrats. Even if the two sides have different opinions, it is nothing more than because of their respective national interests and their own interests.
The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit!
This is true in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad!
There is competition in cooperation and cooperation in competition. This is the norm in international relations in this world.
Unless they are mortal enemies, they will really tear each other apart, and truly stop communicating and cooperating!
Look at the bipolar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two sides were not all competing, but also cooperating. Look at the two countries working together to dismember the British and French colonial systems. That cooperation was quite tacit and done very well. (End of this chapter)