Guo Wei is the Base Commander of Guanghan Base, the Chinese lunar installation at Shackleton Crater. In October 2039, he made the decision to continue geologist Li Xuan’s unplanned pregnancy to term at Guanghan rather than attempt an emergency return during an unstable early gestational window — the first such decision in human history, made without precedent or protocol.
His characterization of the call — “That is not the same as saying we’d make the same call again in different circumstances” — reflects the institutional awareness that a decision made under specific medical and engineering constraints (Guanghan’s regolith-covered shielding providing Earth-equivalent radiation protection) does not constitute a precedent for different conditions. His decision to return mother and child to Earth nine days after birth, rather than retaining them as symbolic “first lunar-born” residents, was consistent with the medical recommendation that no data existed on partial-gravity development and that a newborn cannot consent to an open-ended developmental experiment.