1952年6月,47岁的赵尔陆由中南军区参谋长出任共和国第二机械工业部首任部长。从此,我国国防工业现代化进程便与赵尔陆的名字紧密相连。他深入实际,虚心学习,狠抓“两弹一星”的研制工作,并取得辉煌战果。毛泽东称赞他是“导弹内行”。 June 1952, 47-year-old Zhao Erlu by the Central Military Region Chief of Staff as Republic Second Ministry of Machinery Industry’s first minister. Since then, the process of modernization of China’s defense industry has been closely linked with Zhao Erlu’s name. He went deep into the reality and humbly studied and paid close attention to the research and development of “two bombs and one satellite” and achieved brilliant success. Mao Zedong praised him as a “missile expert.”