Today, decades later, academician Wang Demin, an oil expert, has exploded on the Internet because of his handsome appearance.
But decades ago, this unusual appearance made him suffer a lot.
Wang Demin's life script is a proper rich and handsome male protagonist.
His grandfather was a well-known surgical master, his father had been a medical practitioner since childhood, and his mother was a warm and cheerful Swiss girl who loved music and art and was proficient in four Chinese.
Figure | In 1932, Wang Demin's father, Wang Shigui, married his mother Dorothy in the United States
After their parents got married, they returned to poor and weak China hand in hand and contributed their own strength.
In February 1937, Wang Demin was born, inheriting the appearance advantages of his parents, looking sword eyebrows, star-eyed, smart and cute.
Figure | Young Wang Demin
But he is free and loose and does not obey discipline.
Either they would lie down on the piano keyboard while their older siblings were learning music theory, or they would run to the yard and chase the goats to play.
Mothers are often angry with him, but they never punish their children in a rough way, but only teach them to be reasonable and distinguish between right and wrong.
Growing up in a relaxed and enlightened family atmosphere, Wang Deming developed a stubborn and independent character from an early age.
In his growth diary, there is a sentence like this:
For 24 months, Wang Demin now looks like he will insist on doing what he wants, no matter how many people or how old people persuade him, can not change his mind.
Figure | Brother Wang Demin
Time passed quickly, and the father was worried that his son did not understand the Chinese and would not be able to integrate into normal school life in the future, so he specially invited a Chinese tutor to teach Wang Demin to learn vernacular.
Wang Demin refused to read, just as stubborn as a clumsy disciple.
No matter how patiently the teachers teach, Wang Demin always goes in and out of the left ear and out of the right ear, horizontal and vertical Chinese characters, he learns one and forgets one, and even the strokes are not mastered well.
The family changed three teachers in succession, and all of them took the initiative to resign.
As a result, as his father expected, Wang Demin, who was transferred to the fourth grade of primary school, basically did not recognize Chinese, and the answers to the exam were all guessed, and the results were a mess.
"I don't understand what it says, and I don't understand what I write, it's the back shape."
There is no doubt that the scum Wang Demin has become the "nail household" in the class, and he does not pay attention to it at all.
It wasn't until he was close to graduation, watching his brothers and sisters get into a good middle school, that he finally began to worry about his future.
But later, Wang Demin, who did not meet the standard, was still "guaranteed" to the best school at that time, Beijing Huiwen Middle School.
It depends on the relationship at home, and it is the light of grandpa.
Figure | Young Wang Demin
Grandpa Wang Xianghe is the first graduate of the medical class of this university, who has been practicing medicine for thirty-five years and has countless living people. Later, in order to repay his alma mater, he donated funds to the school to build a library.
This act of kindness naturally benefits future generations.
Figure | Wang Demin's grandfather Wang Xianghe donated funds to build a library
Just when Wang Demin was complacent about "special care", he looked at the admission list and found that his name was divided into the first class.
As is customary, admissions lists are ranked by merit.
A ethylene propylene, a student in class E, was the worst performer in the school.
The inexplicable sense of shame that surged into his heart made Wang Demin truly realize that his future path could no longer blindly rely on the family aura, but had to rely on his own efforts.
Figure | Wang Demin Enrollment Letter
Since then, Wang Demin seems to have changed as a person, never wasted every minute in school, listening attentively to lectures in class, and completing homework conscientiously after class.
He is no longer a "brother" who worries his parents, but cherishes the family's reputation more than anyone else.
Every time I go to the library to read and study, as soon as I enter the door, I will see the oil painting of my grandfather, and the sharp eyes seem to warn him that the descendants of the Wang family can only add color and not smear.
In this way, for 3 years, Wang Demin was once again given the opportunity to guarantee it.
But this time, it was all in their own strength.
No one would have expected that this mixed-race teenager with a partial foreign appearance would create a new era of China Petroleum in the near future.
Figure | Wang Demin
Oil, which has always been known as "black gold", is also the "blood" of industrial development.
But foreign experts who have probed China's oil veins have said:
"China is a geological formation of continental sedimentation, there will be no large oil fields, weak oil production, not enough for lighting."
We painstakingly import oil from abroad and often detect horse manure – deliberately trying to embarrass China.
A "poor oil" hat clasps on China's head, almost killing the mainland's hopes of changing its backward appearance and developing industry.
Wang Demin, who was studying at the Beijing Petroleum Institute at that time, did not believe in this evil.
Just as graduation was approaching, good news came from the northeast: Daqing discovered a huge oil field!
Wang Demin was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, and for the first time he disobeyed the family's arrangement, and he was determined to rush to the front line of Songliao.
Jean's parents, who had paved the way for him early and even had a marriage room ready, were caught off guard.
It can only be determined by Wang Demin's "willful arrogance".
Although Wang Demin was full of enthusiasm, he was full of noble prince style, and he was not welcomed when he first arrived in the oil field.
Everyone felt that he was just a flower shelf for two more days of reading, unable to do rough work, and unable to survive for a few days of hard work.
But Wang Demin's tenacity and perseverance are beyond everyone's imagination.
Completely different from the appearance of pampering at home, Wang Demin willingly did the most bitter and tiring well test work in the oil field.
Endure the dizzying smell of oil and step on the black earth full of viscous oil.
At that time, there was no scientific and technological means to rely on, so Wang Demin and the workers carried a winch weighing more than 100 kilograms and tested more than a dozen wells a day on foot, all by hand to drop detectors into the wells.
Figure | The right one Wang Demin
Especially in winter, when the temperature drops below zero, you have to take off the cotton jacket to keep the wellhead warm to prevent the instrument from being frozen.
The harsh conditions and heavy physical work are nothing, and the real problem is that the effect of "testing the well" is not ideal.
The numerical and actual errors are extremely large, resulting in a low exploitation rate in the Daqing oilfield.
Wang Demin boldly speculated that perhaps the oil measurement method prevailing abroad did not apply to China's geology and oil fields.
If you want to increase the oil production of Daqing Oilfield, Chinese must derive their own exclusive oil measurement methods.
But in the eyes of others, this move is like an ephemeral shaking a tree and daydreaming.
With no experience to follow, no mentor to teach, Wang Demin could only cross the river by feeling the stones on his own.
During the day, as usual, log wells, open up wasteland, plant wild vegetables, and at night, teach yourself heat conduction mathematics, hydraulics, and Russian.
No early bedtime, no holidays.
"I remember one night at 9 o'clock, I finished reading the borrowed information, I really wanted to sleep beautifully, but I was reluctant to spend the rest of the time, 4 hours before midnight. So I ran three or four miles down the prairie to a library to borrow materials. ”
In a certain Spring Festival, the canteen specially distributed half a kilogram of white noodles and a bowl of meat filling to each person, so that everyone could eat a meal of Dumplings for the New Year.
Everyone was overjoyed, but Wang Demin was not happy - dumplings? Why don't you "pack" most of the day?
Simply roll out half a pound of dough into two large cakes, the dumplings are stuffed on the top, wrapped into two extra-large dumplings, thrown into the water and boiled for half an hour, then fished up and swallowed.
"Anyway, when you eat it in your stomach, the nutrition is the same."
After more than 100 days of suffering, Wang Demin finally deduced the "Songliao Method", which conforms to the oil well pressure calculation formula exclusive to Daqing Oilfield.
Compared with the internationally accepted oil measurement method, the accuracy is twice as high.
The news boiled over at home and abroad in an instant, and the recovery rate of Daqing Oilfield was greatly improved, directly opening the curtain of mainland oil self-sufficiency.
That year, Wang Demin was only 24 years old.
In 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai officially announced: "The era of Chinese people using "foreign oil" is about to go away!" ”
Wang Demin burst into tears of excitement offstage.
After the career stabilized, the people around me began to urge marriage.
At this time, Wang Demin has self-destructed his appearance, buried his head in research for many years, and has a sloppy appearance without trimming.
He is stubborn, not on a blind date, not in good shape, and very picky.
He once put forward two harsh conditions to dissuade many girls.
First, if two people are married, he can't take time to take each other to the park; second, whether married or in love, the woman can't disturb herself reading.
Except for a girl named Wang Yueying, she became an exception in love.
Her face is crimson, her eyebrows are curved, she is cheerful and lively by nature, and she is kind and polite.
At the first sight of the meeting, Wang Demin was moved.
At a staff entertainment dance, Wang Demin plucked up the courage to take the initiative to invite Wang Yueying to dance, and the two have since intersected.
After a year of getting along, Wang Demin and Wang Yueying walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand.
Figure | Wang Demin and his wife Wang Yueying
The wedding was simple, there was no drum music, no wedding feast, and the groom did not even have a clean and decent dress, but had to put on his work clothes.
But Wang Yueying didn't mind at all, and accepted everything with a shallow smile.
After marriage, Wang Demin was reluctant to let his wife work too much, and always took the initiative to share a lot. Wang Yueying unconditionally supported her husband and let him engage in scientific research without distraction.
The wife was gentle, and the son also lived up to expectations, and later the son inherited his father's business, and Wang Yan became the chief engineer of the oil production plant.
Figure | Wang Demin and his son Wang Yan
In today's view, Wang Demin is like the son of heavenly choice, with a family lineage, appearance, and ability, all the way to hang, can be called a winner in life.
A yellowed student photo was turned over, directly on the hot search, and was directly called "academician from the stars" and "Wu Yanzu of scientists" by netizens...
But while we are amazed and envious, what we don't know is that it is precisely because of his outstanding appearance that Wang Demin is scaly and injured.
At that time, the mountains and rivers were turbulent, the parents' transnational marriage was an "outlier" in the eyes of others, and as a mixed-race child, Wang Demin was ostracized and ridiculed.
I had no playmates in my childhood and few friends after school.
Even if he said a pure and fluent Chinese and proved that he was a native Chinese, his classmates always ridiculed him as a "second hair" behind his back.
Wang Demin has tried countless times to teach him the nicknames he has given.
But his parents had told him not to fight with his classmates, so he could only bury his grievances in his heart, study hard enough, and use strength to maintain self-esteem.
But at that time, everything was about family origin, and Wang Demin's face became a shackle that he could never break free.
Figure | Wang Demin family portrait
During the period of Sino-Soviet friendship, the state planned to select outstanding students from among the fresh high school graduates to send them to the Soviet Union for further study.
In the three years of high school, He studied 9 courses, and Wang Demin achieved all excellent results and was rated as a Grade A student by the school.
But Wang Demin knows that no matter how top-notch his achievements are, his background will not pass the political censorship.
He could only hold his breath secretly and wanted to be admitted to the ideal university with his strength.
But reality wasn't going to spare him.
In the college entrance examination, Wang Demin scored with a total score of nearly full marks, far exceeding the score line of Tsinghua Peking University.
However, the acceptance letter was delayed.
Whenever the figure of the postman appeared in the alley, he would greet him at the first time and ask: "Is there any admission letter from Wang Demin?" ”
After waiting for many days, the Dream of Tsinghua Peking University was completely shattered, and the reason was self-evident.
In the end, only the seventh-choice petroleum university, Ken included him.
Entering the Beijing Petroleum Institute was not his original intention, and Wang Demin could only be forced to accept such an unfair encounter.
5 years at the University of Petroleum passed quickly.
Wang Demin, who was bent on applying what he had learned and solving China's oil problems, took the initiative to ask miao to work on the front line.
But once again he was treated coldly by fate.
Most of the trainees who reported at the same time were assigned to work in the institute, and he was the only one who went to live in the cowshed and started from the most basic well test workers.
The cowshed was cold in winter and hot in summer, bumping into the rainy season in July and August, it was almost heavy rain outside, and it rained lightly inside the house, Wang Demin could not catch the leakage with several washbasins, and could only squeeze into the corner to sleep, and turned over to be wet.
But Wang Demin was always very optimistic.
He firmly believed that he was a piece of gold, and that it would eventually shine after a thousand hammers.
Following the derivation of the "Songliao Method", Wang Demin developed the "Flow Restriction Fracturing Method", and the oil reserves of Daqing Oilfield soared by 700 million tons.
What is the concept of 700 million tons?
It is equivalent to finding another large oil field, bringing at least hundreds of billions of yuan of revenue to the national treasury.
Wang Demin thought that his bleak life had finally turned over.
As everyone knows, bad luck never stops its gears.
Ten years of catastrophe was fierce, and Wang Demin could not avoid it, and was severely suppressed and persecuted.
Some people are jealous of his achievements, saying that he has taken the road of white profession and waited for an opportunity to destroy all his scientific research achievements; some people have accused him of bad composition, overseas relations, and is a suspected counter-revolutionary agent.
Every day, different "crimes" are pressed on his head, and what Wang Demin faces is endless public criticism and decentralization.
If it is only for himself, it is enough, but what makes him most miserable is that his beloved wife is suffering from his involvement.
Wang Yueying, who came from a worker's family, was asked to draw a clear line with Wang Demin and coerced her into writing a big poster exposing her husband's crimes.
Their home was raided three times before and after, and their clothes and daily necessities were all taken to the exhibition, slandering them for having an improper style.
After one series of threats and insults, Wang Yueying really couldn't bear it, and his spirit completely collapsed and could no longer be cured.
This is the pain of Wang Demin's life.
"The most profound and painful scars caused to me by ten years of catastrophe are the destruction of my wife's health, thus destroying our originally peaceful and harmonious family life."
Although the times abused him thousands of times, Wang Demin has always been "humble and did not dare to forget the country."
After receiving a letter of approval from Premier Zhou, he once again returned to Songliao, northeast China.
At this time, daqing oilfield has a new round of crisis.
The underground pressure is not enough, the usual water injection and oil flooding method has reached the extreme, and the most serious situation is: 100 tons are extracted, 95 tons are water, and only 5 tons of crude oil are produced.
And each water-filled oil well consumes a county's electricity consumption.
What to do if the consumption is high and the energy efficiency is low?
Wang Demin can only set his sights on the world's problem - chemical driving three times oil recovery.
It's a technology that the United States has tried and failed, and was later directly denied.
In particular, daqing oilfield has high wax content, and it will solidify when it is slightly cold, "unless the Daqing oilfield is moved to the equator, three oil recoveries are likely to be successful." ”
Not only are foreign countries not optimistic, but many people at home have also advised Wang Demin to be cautious and not to touch the stubborn stones of the petroleum scientific research community.
But Wang Demin did not listen, and took the trouble to develop an elastic polymer.
However, the polymer is as viscous as maltose and cannot be injected into the ground at all, along with pumps, pipelines, dissolution devices, etc. There are problems.
Voices of doubt and accusation came pouring in, but Wang Demin still insisted on going his own way.
He held the pressure, and after experiencing failure and failure, he finally developed a polymer that could replace the flowing water into the ground and "force" the crude oil hidden deep in the stone hole.
The miracle of three oil productions, the first in China, is unparalleled in the world.
Even today, the world's average oil recovery rate is only 30%, but Daqing Oilfield is as high as 70%.
And Wang Demin is the one who created the miracle.
Fame is well-known at home and abroad, and many Western countries have thrown olive branches and hired him to engage in scientific research abroad with high salaries.
Wang Demin was never moved.
"Compared with foreign countries, my salary is not high, but it is enough for me to use, and the only place where I can show my talents is China."
This year, Wang Demin is 84 years old.
Still so strict with themselves, insisting on climbing the 15th floor staircase to the office every day, and simply eating an apple, a bread, and a cup of warm water at noon to control blood sugar and blood lipids.
If nothing else, "Without a good body, what about my scientific research?" Four oil productions, green oil production, and a bunch of things waiting! ”
After half a life of ups and downs, Wang Demin has always been sincere and pure.
Imagine the school that the young man missed his favorite, holding the hard-won admission letter in his hand and leaving his hometown to study.
At that time he said: "It is not that I chose the petroleum business, it is the oil that chooses me." ”
And Wang Demin's life has never lived up to this choice.
Resources:
1. "People" CCTV oil expert Wang Demin
2. "Biography of Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering: Biography of Wang Demin" by Gong Ke
3. Guangming Daily Wang Demin: I would like to celebrate with my life
4. Alumni work of China University of Petroleum Walk into Wang Demin
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Author: Xuan Yi