1961年,我应征入伍,成为中央警卫团的一名新兵。到1968年时,我已成为警卫协和的一名指导员。那年8月的一天下午,警卫团政委杨德中把我叫到他的家中,在我毫无思想准备的情况下,向我宣布了一个令我十分意外的消息:“从即日起,调你到周恩来总理身边做秘书工作。”听到这个消息,我很担心自己不能胜任这项工作,因为被派到周总理身边工作,对任何人来说都是责任千钧重,尽管很光荣,但更多的还是意味着使命。到周总理办公室后,我开始了长达8年的秘书生涯。 In 1961, I joined the army and became a recruiter of the Central Guard Corps. By 1968, I had become an Inspector of Security Guards. One afternoon in August of that year, Yang Dezhong, political commissar of the security regiment, called me into his home. When I was unprepared, I announced a very unexpected news to me: "From now on, At the hearing, I was very worried that I could not do the job. Because being assigned to work next to Premier Zhou was a heavy duty to anyone, and although honorable, But more still means mission. After going to Premier Zhou’s office, I started my eight-year career as a secretary.