Chen Quan

Chen Quan

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Chen Quan, born in 1963 in Suining City, Sichuan Province, holds the rank of senior colonel, the rank of division chief and the rank of class II astronaut. In July 1981, he was recruited into the army. In January 1998, he joined the Chinese people's Liberation Army's astronaut team and became one of the first batch of astronauts in China. In 2008 and 2013, he entered the "Shenqi" and "Shenshi" echelons and won the second class merit twice. In January 2010, he was awarded the master's degree of aerospace engineering from school of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tsinghua University. Chen Quan, 50, retired in early 2014.

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Chen Quan, born in Suining, Sichuan Province, holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from school of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tsinghua University. In July 1981, he was recruited into the army. In January 1998, with solid theoretical knowledge and excellent flight skills, Chen Quan, who was then the captain of the flight brigade, stood out from the recruitment of astronauts and joined the first batch of Chinese people's Liberation Army astronauts brigade. He was the only Sichuan member among the first batch of astronauts. After more than ten years of hard work, Chen Quan entered the "Shenzhou 7" and "Shenzhou 10" echelons in 2008 and 2013 respectively, and successfully completed the task. He also won the second class merit and made important contributions to China's aerospace industry. At the beginning of 2014, Chen Quanrong, who has reached the age of 50, retired and became the first batch of retired astronauts in China. In November of the same year, he officially joined AVIC aviation club.

Characters and deeds

Sweet potato as food for my sister's family in high school

In the spring of 1963, Chen Quan was born in pianyan village, Ma's hometown, Anju District, Suining City. There were seven brothers and sisters in his family. Chen Quan's family is very poor since he was a child, but his father still tightens his belt to send Chen Quan to school.

In 1979, Chen Quan went to Ximei high school. Xi Mei is far away from home, so Chen Quan has to live in school. At that time, the resident monks had to bring their own rations into the school, and then they were cooked by the school. Steamed "bowl rice" is a large number of sweet potatoes in the bowl, covered with only a little rice. In 1979, all four sisters got married in the local area. Chen Quan took turns to carry grain (sweet potato) at his sister's home. Because of the lack of oil and water in his stomach, Chen Quan usually went to his sister's home two weeks later, carrying a sack of sweet potato. Sweet potato accompanied him to senior three.

In 1981, when Chen Quan was a junior in high school, he heard that the army was recruiting pilots. Chen Quan didn't expect that he was a pilot by accident.

My hometown relatives after joining the army

After he was admitted as a pilot, Chen Quan still insisted on studying hard. When he was a soldier in Yunnan and Inner Mongolia, he was not only strict with himself in training, but also grasped all the time to read extensively. In 1998, Chen Quan was admitted to the Chinese people's Liberation Army (PLA) astronaut team with excellent results. In the PLA astronaut team, there are 14 people, including Yang Liwei, Zhai Zhigang and Chen Quan, and only Chen Quan is a Sichuan astronaut.

Chen Quan, who has become a pilot and an astronaut, is either flying all over the world, or doing strict physical training, theoretical knowledge education, psychological training, endurance and adaptability training for special environmental factors, survival training, spacecraft technology training, aerospace medical engineering technology training, space science and application knowledge and technology training, etc. his work is very busy. Because of his constant concern for his family, Chen Quan insisted on writing two letters a month to go home before the popularity of the telephone. During the Spring Festival, I always like to send 10 yuan, 30 yuan and 50 yuan to my home. He also sent drugs to his mother-in-law and mother in Yunnan and Inner Mongolia.

Later, the popularity of the telephone, Chen Quan to his hometown relatives more contact. The four elder sisters are all in the countryside. Chen Quan asked the most about their life and health on the phone.

Return home to visit relatives

Loyalty and filial piety cannot be achieved, especially for soldiers. In 1988, Chen Quan's mother died of illness, and he failed to go home. After three years, Chen Quancai rushed back to Suining. When he held a memorial ceremony in front of his weedy mother's tomb, Chen Quancai burst into tears. In the middle of January 1994, Chen Quan's father was seriously ill. Chen Quan returned home on January 14. At noon on January 16, his father left for the West. At 12:30, he received an urgent order from the Army: return to the army immediately, there is an urgent task. Chen Quan didn't wait for his father to enter the earth to embark on the journey.

After his parents passed away, Chen's old house was abandoned, and the stone windmill in front of the old house had no use value, but Chen was worried about the old house in his hometown. In the winter of 2006, when Chen Guangyuan visited relatives in Suining, he went to see the old house.

Retired life

In November 2014, Chen Quan officially joined AVIC aviation club.

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