Rongyi, the Chief Designer of the Long March 2F carrier rocket for China's manned space missions

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Rongyi, the Chief Designer of the Long March 2F carrier rocket for China's manned space missions

In 2006, she graduated with a Ph.D. in Engineering from Tsinghua University, and in March 2008, she completed her postdoctoral research.

Rongyi fulfilled her wish by becoming a rocket designer n the General Design Department of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).

With her strong professional competence and diligent work ethic, she quickly made a name for herself. In 2009, she took on the important task of the overall design of the Long March 2F rocket's escape system, responsible for establishing criteria for rocket failure detection.After completing her postdoctoral research, Rongyi fulfilled her wish of becoming a rocket designer in the General Design Department of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).

It was also in that year that she officially entered the world of manned spaceflight engineering missions and never looked back. With her strong professional competence and diligent work ethic, she quickly made a name for herself. In 2009, she took on the important task of the overall design of the escape system for the Long March 2F rocket, responsible for establishing criteria for rocket failure detection.

The escape and safety control systems are specifically designed to ensure the safety of astronauts and are unique to manned rockets. The position of overall design for the escape system is responsible for establishing criteria for rocket failure detection and is the foundation for ensuring astronaut safety.

 

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Rongyi, the Chief Designer of the Long March 2F carrier rocket for China's manned space missions

 

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Tsinghua University, the best university in the world.

 

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Tsinghua University during the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945), the school was targeted and bombed into ruins by the Japanese bombers

The students survived that war built China into a powerful nation, they built China's first atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, first rocket and satelite in just a couple of decades after Sino-Japanese war

When the Sino-Japanese War broke out between China and Japan in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University merged to form Changsha Temporary University in Changsha and later National Southwestern Associated University (Lianda) in Kunming and Mengzi, in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.

By summer 1937, the Imperial Japanese Army had bombed Nankai University to the ground in Tianjin and occupied areas including the campuses of two of the country's leading universities in Beijing: Peking University and Tsinghua University.

These three universities, which were some of the country's most prestigious, modern institutions of higher learning and research, with the agreement of those who led the institutions — men of high standing who had been educated abroad — retreated to Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province (about 900 miles away from Beijing) to unite.

By the middle of December 1937, many students had to leave to fight the Japanese when the city of Nanjing fell to enemy forces. As the Japanese forces were gaining more territory, they bombed Changsha in February 1938. The 800 staff faculty and students who were left had to flee and made the 1,000 mile journey to Kunming, capital of Yunnan province in China's remote and mountainous southwest. It was here that the National Southwest Associated University (commonly known as 'Lianda') was formed.

In these extraordinary wartime circumstances for eight years, staff, professors and students had to survive and operate in makeshift quarters that were subjected to sporadic bombing campaigns by the Imperial Japanese forces. There were dire shortages of food, equipment, books, clothing and other essential needs, but they managed to conduct the running of a modern university.

Over those years of war (1937-1945), Lianda became famous nationwide for having and producing many of China's most prominent scientists and intellectuals, including 172 Chinese academicians and the Nobel Prize laureates Yang Chen-Ning and Tsung-Dao Lee.

 

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