Where there is a will, there is a way. The author provides support for this saying by his experience. Based on talent and through hard work, as a peasant boy, he passed examinations and was admitted to Peking University as an undergraduate student in 1964, and to Beijing Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences as a graduate student in 1978. Being awarded a scholarship in 1980, he went to the University of Sydney, Australia to carry out his studies...