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On August 17, 2024, Zhou Guangzhao, an outstanding scientist, senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former president and party secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, honorary chairman and former chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress, and winner of my country's "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal of Merit, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 95.

In an interview with a reporter from the Beijing News, Zheng Zhipeng, former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of Guangxi University, recalled that this "old leader" was not only a famous theoretical physicist, but also a talented general who was good at strategizing.

He often said, "A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step," encouraging everyone to not slack off.

Zheng Zhipeng still remembers the first time he met Zhou Guangzhao. In 1979, Zheng Zhipeng, who studied under Nobel Prize winner Professor Ting Zhaozhong and participated in the discovery of gluons, returned to his motherland to give a report on an important piece of evidence for the discovery of gluons - gluon injection. After the meeting, Zhou Guangzhao asked Zheng Zhipeng several questions. "He asked very deep questions. Although he was a theoretical person, he also asked questions related to experiments, which left a great impression on me."

In 1986, Zheng Zhipeng succeeded Academician Ye Minghan as the person in charge of the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider and the Beijing Spectrometer. In 1987, Zhou Guangzhao became the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and concurrently served as the leader of the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider Leadership Group. The two gradually became more frequent in their exchanges. "As a leader, he was very concerned about the construction of the collider and the spectrometer. He said that some countries' accelerators were doing well, but there were no significant physical results. We should remember this lesson," Zheng Zhipeng recalled.