In 2020, Zhang Guoli mentioned his story when he went to Antarctica to build Zhongshan Station in 1988 in CCTV's " on his way home " column. Zhang Guoli rarely mentions the past of
, but around 2019, with the dissemination of his teammates and some media, this incident quickly spread on the Internet. Facing the overwhelming praise, Zhang Guoli was not proud. He took the credit for through the CCTV program. also said that the netizens of put the collective credit on his head alone.
Collective first-class merit , individual second-class merit , Zhang Guoli put it lightly, but only those who really understand this story can know how much risk Zhang Guoli and the expedition team members took and how much they ate. 's pain.
Zhang Guoli
Zhang Guoli can join the Antarctic expedition team because of his versatility. In addition to being an actor in dramas and film and television dramas, he also has very good camera skills.
In 1988, my country was going to build the second scientific research station "Zhongshan Station" in the Antarctic. Sichuan TV station planned to take this opportunity to follow the scientific research team to the Antarctic. " documentary.
Since the number of people who can go to the South Pole is very limited, the crew of "The Great Wall Extends South" must be as streamlined as possible. Zhang Guoli, who can act and shoot, was invited by the crew to be an actor and a deputy photographer.
going to Antarctica is very risky and tempting. Zhang Guoli, who likes to try new things, will definitely not miss such an opportunity.
and filming the film of my country's first Antarctic research station and participating in the construction of my country's second Antarctic research station also gave Zhang Guoli a sense of sacred mission.
Zhang Guoli and the crew members in the Antarctic In November 1998, the Chinese Antarctic research team set off from Qingdao and headed for the Antarctic by boat. Departure in November is to catch the warm season of Antarctica.
is located in the extremely cold Antarctic, and the suitable time for construction is only January every year.
crossed the equator to Australia, and the scientific expedition team stopped in Australia for supplies. During this period, Zhang Guoli encountered something that made him angry.
After China entered the customs in the 21st century, a large number of Chinese people flocked to the world. Chinese people who came to Australia for study, business, immigration and tourism can be seen everywhere on the streets of big Australian cities.
In the era when Zhang Guoli went to Antarctica, there were very few Chinese people who had the opportunity to go abroad. Zhang Guoli was walking on the streets of Australia, and was always regarded as Japanese.
Zhang Guoli felt uncomfortable, so he made his own cultural shirt , and wrote "China, Beijing" in English on the T-shirt with a pen.
Zhang Guoli
set out from Australia and arrived in the Antarctic waters when he was young. The scientific expedition team was greeted by endless waves, sailing in the " Devil Westerly Belt ". The waves were as high as nine meters all the way. Many team members became seasick and vomited more than ten times a day. , gastric juice was repeatedly vomited.
Fortunately, Zhang Guoli is not seasick, but later he recalled that people who are seasick can be relieved when they go ashore. come over.
And it's impossible to get a good night's sleep on a violently shaking boat. Zhang Guoli is not seasick, and he is still tormented at sea.
left westerly belt entered Antarctic circle , suffered from turbulence and became a pediatrician, drifted around the iceberg, is the enemy of the scientific expedition team.
It is not uncommon for a scientific research ship to go to Antarctica to be trapped at sea by floes. If it encounters an ice avalanche, the scientific research ship is in danger of being destroyed. Zhang Guoli and the others encountered an ice avalanche at sea.
Zhang Guoli in Antarctica
If an avalanche is likened to a carpet bombardment, the avalanche is like a nuclear explosion. Ice avalanches refer to the breaking of ice shelves or giant icebergs on the sea surface. As the climate warms, the frequency of ice avalanches at the poles is increasing.
Zhang Guoli's trip to the Antarctic can be said to be "well worth it", and many thrilling scenes including ice avalanches made him feelChecked. The sea conditions in the Antarctic region are extremely complex, with strong winds of magnitude 10 or higher and turbulent waves more than ten meters high in the Antarctic waters.
The rampaging ice floes can crash ships, or make them unable to advance or retreat. There is an iceberg hidden under the sea of , which is easy to see in the Antarctic. If you accidentally hit an iceberg under the surface, the consequence is likely to be a shipwreck.
Zhang Guoli and their ship encountered an ice peak that suddenly emerged from the sea as soon as they reached the Antarctic Circle. almost collided with , and Zhang Guoli and the others passed by the shipwreck accident.
escaped the "tip of the iceberg". Two days later, boundless icebergs floated towards the two ships of the scientific expedition team.
Five days later, the "Polar" was smashed into a hole by the iceberg. Fortunately, the "Polar" was an ice-resistant ship with a double-layer shell, and the main body did not enter the water to avoid sinking.
However, the ship of the scientific expedition team was trapped by the iceberg and could not move forward or retreat. If it was squeezed by the iceberg for a long time, the sturdy hull would not be able to carry it. The scientific research ship is looking for the gap to move. In many cases, it can only travel 0.3 nautical miles per hour.
The turbulent sea consumes physical strength. The scientific expedition team has to eat four meals a day. After being trapped, in order to prepare for a protracted battle to save survival materials, they had to change to two meals a day, and drinking water was also limited.
In the polar day season of the Antarctic, is not covered by ice floes, and the sun will form clouds above, and the place with clouds is the direction to break through the iceberg siege.
When the expedition team found the clouds, they would send the helicopter on board to check the situation. However, the helicopter was dispatched six times and found that there were only small puddles under the clouds. If
is trapped for a few months and still can't drive out of the ice area, the Antarctic scientific expedition will be a complete failure.
Fortunately, there is no way out. After being trapped for 20 days, the ice floes dodged a winding gap, just enough for the ship to slowly move past. The scientific research ship was able to move forward slowly and out of danger. After
had a hard time, a bigger one came.
Three ice avalanches occurred 400 meters away from the landing site. The snow column rushed into the sky 100 meters high to form mushroom cloud , ice cubes the size of trucks densely fell from the sky, smashing into the sea, causing huge waves , rolled over from the top of the boat in waves.
If an ice cube hits the research ship, a " Titanic " style tragedy will be staged.
Luckily, the ice cubes that fell are two or three meters away from the scientific research ship. The ice cubes sank into the sea and squeezed the icebergs in the sea, and did not emerge from the bottom of the scientific research ship. Otherwise, the scientific research ship would definitely be destroyed. The top of the boat flipped into the air.
However, the scientific research ship was soon surrounded by ice floes and could not move at all. The seawater expanded due to the ice and began to squeeze the scientific research ship.
The situation is extremely critical. The Chinese scientific research team sent a distress signal to the scientific research teams of other nearby countries. The scientific research teams from the Soviet Union, the United States, and Japan all sent helicopters to respond. Seeing the current situation, They all said that they had not been for two years. , the scientific research ship could not get out of the land, and suggested that the Chinese scientific research team abandon the ship and escape.
But abandoning the ship will lose the "Polar" research ship. At that time, my country did not have the ability to build the icebreaker by itself. It wanted to import it from abroad, but the price was too high to buy new ships, and the second-hand icebreaker cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
For the Antarctic scientific expedition, my country spent huge sums of money to import the ice-resistant general cargo ship "Reia" from , Finland, in 1985, and converted it into the "Polar" scientific research ship in Shanghai. If an ice-resistant ship is lost, my country's Antarctic scientific research will be greatly hindered.
But if you don't abandon the ship, it won't be long before the ship will be crushed by the ice floes, and staying on the ship will only result in the destruction of the ship.
For the safety of the expedition team, the commander of the expedition team ordered the ship to be abandoned.
Zhang Guoli's first reaction when he heard the order to abandon the ship was to run to the stern to look at the national flag, which was blown into a strip of cloth by the wind. stubborn in the cold windStrong dance. On the vast sea, Zhang Guoli and the others regarded the ship as their country, and everyone felt a pain in their hearts when they wanted to abandon the ship.
Zhang Guoli in Antarctica
Eight "expendables" put on formal clothes, wrote their wills and prepared to sacrifice. At this time, after discussion, the command decided to blast the ice cubes with explosives to open up a way out for the "Polar".
There are explosives on the expedition ship, but there is no professional blaster. Only Zhang Guoli has been exposed to blasting when he was a railway worker, so he was appointed as the head of the blasting team.
In fact, Zhang Guoli has never operated blasting himself, but he has seen others blasting many times. He carefully recalled the operation process of blasting, and selected more than a dozen blasting points, each of whom was responsible for digging holes, filling explosives and detonating them.
digging holes in Antarctic ice is laborious, taking hours for each hole. In addition, all blasting points of the must be blasted simultaneously, otherwise some blasters will be hit by the blasted ice cubes. After
and others buried explosives at the predetermined blasting point, following Zhang Guoli's order, the leads of several blasting points were lit one after another.
However, at this time, everyone found that the lead of one of the blasting points did not ignite.
At the critical moment, Zhang Guoli resolutely rushed up to ignite the lead of the blasting point. When he ran back, all the explosives exploded, and countless ice cubes fell from the air. The team members shouted Zhang Guoli's name in a hurry, Zhang Guoli hurriedly lay down on the ice with his head on his back. Fortunately, he was dead and not a single piece of ice hit him.
Zhang Guoli got up in the Antarctic and ran back happily when he saw a hole in the iceberg being blown up. At this time, the team members gathered around and clapped their hands to him, saying that he was good. The blasting of
was very successful this time. A gap appeared between the two big icebergs and extended to the scientific research ship. The scientific research ship lifted anchor decisively and broke through the siege of the icebergs.
Two hours after the scientific research ship broke through, the gap closed again, and it did not reopen until the scientific research team completed the task and left. After
landed, in order to recover the time lost in the ice floes, Zhang Guoli finished filming every day and also helped to participate in the construction of Zhongshan Station. The working time was as long as fifteen or sixteen hours.
Zhang Guoli
He weighs hundreds of pounds of cement bags. He has to carry hundreds of times a day. He is a welder and a concrete worker. , I just remember that my whole body hurts to the point of falling apart.
In the warm season of the Antarctic circle, the temperature during the day is also more than minus ten degrees. The research station has not yet been built. At night, I can only sleep in a tent in the snow, and I can't rest well. The commander-in-chief of the examination team said he was a good man.
Zhang Guoli later recalled these days and said frankly: "I was in the Antarctic, I suffered all my life!" , This TV series is pitifully "small", but the significance of the subject matter is very important.
my country's Antarctic scientific expedition started from the Great Wall Station and went to glory step by step.
As early as the 1960s, the famous meteorologist and geographer Zhu Kezhen proposed that my country should conduct scientific research on the Antarctic.
Antarctica is nearly 10,000 kilometers away from my country, but it has a significant impact on the formation and evolution of my country's climate.
Due to limited conditions, my country did not conduct scientific expeditions to Antarctica until the 1980s. Before the establishment of the Antarctic Great Wall scientific research station, my country could only send scientists to join the scientific research team of other countries in the Antarctic scientific research, which brought great restrictions to my country's Antarctic scientific research work.
Antarctic Great Wall Station
Antarctic not only has a significant impact on the global climate, but also has abundant resources such as krill, oil and gas. Antarctic scientific research is of great significance to all countries.
In 1959, the " Antarctic Treaty " was open for signature by all countries in the world. The treaty recognized that Antarctica was shared by the world and could only be used for peaceful purposes.
my countryIt joined the Antarctic Treaty in 1983, but because there is no scientific research station in Antarctica for independent research, even though Chinese scientists have published many high-level Antarctic papers, my country still cannot become an Antarctic Consultative Country. At this time, among the five permanent members of the United Nations, my country is the only one that is not an Antarctic Consultative Nation.
Every time the United Nations holds a meeting about Antarctica, When it comes to the voting session, the host will invite the representatives of non-consulting countries to go out for coffee , and the results of the voting will not be notified to the representatives of non-consulting countries.
Antarctica has the flags of the members who have negotiated the Antarctic Treaty. In the early 1980s, 18 countries in the world have established scientific research stations in Antarctica. my country is still not an Antarctic negotiating country, and it does not match its status as a major power. , there is also a strategic crisis of backward Antarctic exploration.
At this time, it is imperative to establish a scientific research station in Antarctica.
In February 1984, 32 scientists jointly proposed to the top management to establish a scientific research station in Antarctica. In June, my country decided to set up the first Antarctic scientific research team to establish a scientific research station in Antarctica.
On November 20, my country's Antarctic scientific research fleet, consisting of " Xiangyanghong No. 10 " and a navy salvage lifeboat, departed from Shanghai and sailed to Antarctica.
For the first time, my country independently established a scientific research team to conduct scientific research in Antarctica and set up a scientific research station. The 591 scientists, journalists, construction workers, etc. who participated in the mission felt both honor and severe challenges. Everyone signed a "life and death certificate". Among the supplies on board the , 200 body bags were also brought.
In 1984, Chinese scientific expedition members boarded the Antarctic. On December 18, the scientific research ship arrived at the city of Ushuaia in Argentina, which is the southernmost city in the world and the city closest to the Antarctic. After this repair and final replenishment, the advance to the South Pole began on December 24.
Along the way, the scientific expedition team has experienced numerous strong winds and waves. When the team members sleep at night, they must tie themselves to the bunk, or they will soon be shaken to the ground.
On December 30, after a 40-day voyage, the scientific research team arrived at King George Island in Antarctica, where the Great Wall Station was selected. The first problem
faced when arriving at his destination was unloading the supplies. There is no ready-made wharf on King George Island. The scientific research team must build a small wharf by itself to facilitate the docking of small boats and the hoisting of vehicles.
is an Antarctic sea with high winds and turbulent waves. The small pier that was just built was washed away by the big waves in an instant.
's commando team composed of more than 20 party members, jumped into the icy sea water wearing waterproof clothing, fought for three days, and finally built a small dock. The team members relied on manual handling, and it took another ten days to transport the materials for the construction of the station to the shore.
Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Antarctic Great Wall Station
Antarctic construction is extremely difficult, digging foundations on the permafrost, only drills to dig a little bit. The suitable time for construction of
is only one month in the warm season, but the melting of ice and snow in the warm season will wash away the quick-setting cement in the foundation.
The Great Wall Station took 45 days from the foundation to the completion, and the actual construction only took 27 days, creating the world's fastest speed of building a station in Antarctica , Poland building a station in Antarctica, and it took a full three years time.
Some foreign friends saw the Chinese expedition members working hard, and curiously asked them how much money they could earn every day. Guo Kun, the captain of the scientific expedition team replied: "I don't do it even if I give 10,000 yuan a day for money. I work hard to revitalize China." The wind speed of the first-level gale can reach up to 28 meters per second, the maximum wind speed of the twelve-level wind is close to 37 meters per second, and the wind speed of the Antarctic can often reach 55 meters per second. Can the Great Wall Station built at super high speed by
withstand the super storm in Antarctica?
It seems that God wants to check the Great Wall Station. On the second day of the completion ceremony of the Great Wall Station on February 20, 1985, A blizzard of 12 or higher hit the Great Wall Station. zThe 5z
snowstorm raged for 48 hours, the Great Wall Station was not damaged, and the quality withstood the test of the extreme Antarctic climate.
After the Great Wall Station was completed, my country became an Antarctic negotiating country that year, but the Great Wall stood on the edge of the Antarctic, which made my country's voice in the negotiating country not enough.
Antarctic Great Wall Station
Since there is no icebreaker, it is not realistic for our country to go deep into the Antarctic to build a station, so our country did not hesitate to buy a Finnish ice-resistant ship and refit it into the "Polar", and in 1989 went deep to south latitude 6 Nineteen degrees established Zhongshan Station.
Today, my country has its own icebreaker "Xuelong", and five Antarctic scientific research stations have been built, of which Kunlun Station is above 80 degrees south latitude, and my country's Antarctic scientific research has entered the world's advanced ranks.
Zhang Guoli was fortunate to have participated in the process of my country's Antarctic scientific expedition, which is an experience worth remembering for a lifetime.
