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《李四光：把入党作为生命新起点》

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推荐理由：科学无国界，但科学家是有国界的。李四光在新中国百废待兴时选择放弃国外优渥的生活工作环境义无反顾地回到祖国，不畏艰难险阻，奉献了毕生精力，为中国原子弹、氢弹的研制，为中国石油的勘探和开发等做出重大贡献，加入中国共产党开启生命新起点，是值得我辈学习的党员楷模。

李四光：把入党作为生命新起点

Li Siguang: Taking Joining the Communist Party as a New Start in Life

李四光是著名地质学家。他1889年10月出生于湖北省黄冈市，1913年进入英国伯明翰大学学习，毕业后担任北京大学地质系教授、中国地质学会会长。新中国成立后，他冲破台湾当局的重重阻挠，在国外辗转数月安全回到祖国。

Li Siguang is a famous geologist. He was born in October 1889 in the Huanggang City, Hubei Province. In 1913, he was admitted to the University of Birmingham, Britain. After graduation, he worked as a professor of the Geology Department of Peking University and served as the president of the Geological Society of China. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he broke through all the obstacles of the Taiwan authorities to return safe and sound after having been stalled for months abroad.

加入中国共产党，是李四光长期掩藏在心中的一个愿望。但很长时间以来，他因自认为条件不够，没有向党组织提出申请。后来，他经过认真考虑后，于1957年正式提出入党。

Joining the Communist Party of China was a wish that Li Siguang had long cherished in his heart. But for quite a long time, he did not apply for joining in the Party because he assumed that he was not qualified enough. Later, after a lot of thought, he finally submitted his application to join the Party in 1957.

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1957年1月，李四光因患病到杭州疗养。3月的一天，周总理特意来看望他。周总理关切地询问了他的病情和治疗情况，并详细问及他对于加入共产党的想法。李四光袒露了自己要求入党这一多年来的心愿，以及为什么考虑多年却又没有提出来的原因。针对李四光的想法，周总理耐心地给予鼓励并加以劝导，这增添了李四光入党的勇气和信心。

This was how it happened. In January 1957, Li Siguang went to the Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province to recuperate due to his illness. One day in March, Premier Zhou Enlai went to visit him. Premier Zhou enquired with great concern about his health and treatment, and his thought of joining the Communist Party in detail. Li Siguang related his long-time wish to join the Party and the reason why he had considered it for many years but not applied to do so. Regarding Li Siguang’s doubts, Premier Zhou patiently encouraged and advised him, which boosted Li Siguang’s courage and confidence in joining the Party.

1958年下半年，地质部党组书记何长工、中国科学院党组书记张劲夫一致认为，李四光积极要求进步，已经具备了一名共产党员的基本条件，愿意作其入党介绍人。12月29日，李四光被批准为中共预备党员，从此，他的生命开启了崭新的一页。

In the second half of 1958, He Changgong, secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Geology, and Zhang Jinfu, secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, unanimously agreed that Li Siguang actively wanted to join the Party and had already had the essential qualifications for a Communist Party member and they were both willing to be his Party membership referees. On December 29, Li Siguang was approved of as a candidate for the Communist Party of China. Since then, his life has turned a new page.

对于由一名民族主义者成长为共产主义战士的转变，已临古稀之年的李四光称自己“像一个刚刚出生的婴儿，生命的新起点才开始”。之后，他以更加旺盛的精力投入到社会主义建设的热潮之中。周恩来曾给予他高度评价，称他为“科学界的一面旗帜”。

Talking about his transformation from a nationalist to a communist, Li Siguang, who was then close to 70 years old, said that he was “like a newborn baby, a new start in life.” After that, he devoted more vigorously into the upsurge of socialist construction. Zhou Enlai once spoke highly of him, holding him as “a flag of the scientific community.”