Nan Rendong, a famous astronomer in my country, is the initiator and founder of the China Sky Eye 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) project, a major national scientific and technological infrastructure construction project. He is known as the Sky Eye. father.

He took the lead in proposing to use the karst depressions in Guizhou Province as the telescope site. It took 22 years from project demonstration to site selection and construction. He overcame a series of technical problems and played an important role in the smooth completion of the FAST major scientific project. played a key role and made important contributions. Regardless of his personal fame and fortune, he has devoted himself to the front line of scientific research in obscurity for a long time. Through unremitting efforts with the entire engineering team, he has overcome many difficulties and realized China's dream of having a world-class telescope.

Introduction

He once refused a high salary offered abroad that was more than 300 times higher than that in China and returned to China firmly, becoming one of the leading figures in the Chinese astronomy community. He is Nan Rendong, and he has two widely circulated famous sayings: People have to do something, but how impossible it is, which became a portrayal of his lifelong struggle.

Nan Rendong is a role model for the times that has emerged in the process of implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and building an innovative country. He is an outstanding representative and shining example of scientific and technological workers in the new era. He is a great master of the Sky Eye. He fought for the scientific cause until the last moment of his life, and wrote a wonderful scientific life with the spirit of selfless dedication. He clearly embodies the sentiment of caring for the motherland and serving the people, the spirit of daring to be the first, perseverance, and the indifference to fame and fortune. The noble sentiment of selfless dedication is worthy of being an example for the whole society to learn from.

On November 17, 2017, the Central Propaganda Department publicly released Nan Rendong’s advanced deeds to the whole society and awarded him the honorary title of Model of the Times posthumously.