She is a world-class talented woman from an ordinary family, who has won numerous awards in her academic career and earns millions of dollars in the United States after graduation. She is also a patriotic volunteer who resolutely returned to her hometown, giving up preferential treatment only to help the country break the monopoly of foreign countries for ten years. She is Mao Wei, so how did she grow into such a giant talent, and what kind of monopoly did she break for the mainland?
Mao Wei
In 1978, Mao Wei was born into a working-class family in Qidong County, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, whose parents were just ordinary workers in state-owned factories, who had no money and no power, and had no excellent genes to inherit for their daughters.
In this case, they all agree that the child will not have any big success in the future, and at most, he will be admitted to college and become a more successful ordinary person.
But the strange thing is that as Mao Wei grows older, the talent she shows is different from ordinary people, and her IQ is very high, to what extent?
Let's put it this way, when Mao Wei was in elementary school, the knowledge she mastered had already left her parents in the clouds, especially in mathematics and natural sciences.
Because of her sufficient interest in these two subjects, Mao Wei not only often goes to the library to patronize the content of the senior subjects to enrich her knowledge reserves, but she also likes to experiment with her own hands.
Such a talented situation made Mao Wei's parents very happy, so from this moment on, they also gave up their previous ideas and concentrated on cultivating Mao Wei, hoping that she could become a leading talent in related fields.
In this way, with the support of his parents and the blessing of various training courses, Mao Wei's achievements have increased by leaps and bounds. Not only that, because she participated in various mathematical and physics competitions very early, she was only fourteen years old, she already had a great reputation in the local physics community, won many awards, and won the unanimous attention of many domestic and foreign elites.
At the age of sixteen, Mao Wei was admitted to the top local high school - Qidong Middle School, and when he learned that the prodigy had settled in the school, the school leaders of Qidong Middle School and even the leaders of the municipal party committee of the city attached great importance to it, and the quota of high-end physics competitions was given to Mao Wei under their arrangement.
Participating in physics competitions has always been the most interesting thing for Mao Wei, but gradually with the domestic awards to win soft, some small competitions have made Mao Wei tired.
So in order to challenge her own limits, but also in order to meet more masters, with the support of school leaders, municipal leaders, and parents, she came to the national key experimental class of Peking University Affiliated High School and prepared for the International Physics Olympiad.
There are 25 people in this experimental class, which includes most of the "prodigies" in the country, of which there is only one female classmate here because the boys' science thinking is generally better than that of the girls.
Therefore, as to whether Mao Wei can pass the test and finally win one of the five crucial places, the students in the class and even the teachers are very skeptical.
But even so, Mao Wei was not affected by the outside world, and her mind seemed to have only learning, only physics, and only the Olympic Competition.
In the classroom, Mao Wei's thinking is extremely focused, she never rests after class, after the content of the competition, she will prepare for the university physics course, learn high numbers and other higher means that may be able to solve problems better.
Of course, hard work will always be rewarded, and Mao Wei, who is extremely talented in herself, through several months of diligent study, has successfully been selected for the Chinese team with only five people after passing twelve examinations.
After learning the news, the teacher's parents were happy for Mao Wei, but unexpectedly, unlike the other four contestants, Mao Wei himself did not show much excitement, but appeared particularly calm.
Such words and deeds can really be regarded as not to be alarmed, so even the coach of the national team and the leader in charge of the project have to lament that this woman will become a great instrument in the future.
On July 7, 1995, the XXVI International Physics Olympiad was held in Canberra, Australia, with a total of 45 participating countries and 225 participants in each country with five participants.
These 225 players are all geniuses in physics from all over the world, but unfortunately, only eighteen of them will win in the end.
The proportion of such awards is really a hellish difficulty, and the Chinese people who are paying attention to the event in China can't help but sweat for the five people participating in the competition, especially Mao Wei's parents and teachers, and the mood is very worried.
Because you must know that no woman has ever won a gold medal in this competition before, if you follow this "convention", then The chance of Mao Wei winning is hanging, and once it is not awarded, this is a painful blow to Mao Wei, an arrogant and talented player.
However, it is clear that their worries are superfluous, and in the course of the game, Mao Wei not only defeated all his opponents without suspense, but also obtained the highest score in the event, thus breaking the previous record and winning a hard-won gold medal.
After learning this news, the world was in an uproar, and everyone could not believe that a girl born and raised in China could actually overcome the crowd to win such a special honor, and the faces of the european and American contestants who had underestimated China were as ugly as eating bitter melons.
After this, the title of Mao Wei's physical Olympiad goddess was launched, and she also won the favor of Tsinghua University with this achievement and joined the electronic technology major.
Electronics? Does this have anything to do with physics? The answer is yes, and not only is it related, but this profession is also related to the future of China's chip industry.
It should be known that chips have always been one of the signs of countries around the world entering the science and technology power, but due to the blockade of the United States and Japan and other countries, the mainland has conducted a long-term study on this, invested a lot of manpower and material resources and failed to make a huge breakthrough.
Therefore, we urgently needed someone who could break the deadlock at that time, which is why Tsinghua University invited Mao Wei to the major.
In this regard, Mao Wei knows well, she knows the difficulty of the project, and she also knows how bad it will be to her reputation once she achieves nothing, but for the prosperity of the country, she still did not hesitate to devote herself to the research of chips.
In her college career, Mao Wei spent almost every day in the library and laboratory, but the research during this time also made Mao Wei recognize a reality, that is, relying on theory alone, not to say that she was, even the immortals could not achieve results in a short period of time.
Therefore, in order to help the country break through the difficulties as soon as possible, Mao Wei made the decision to go out, she decided to go to the University of the United States for further study, through the real, visible and tangible mature chip technology to hone herself.
Although the state is very supportive of this decision, there are still concerns, and the reason for the concern is very simple, because no one can guarantee whether Mao Wei will change his mind, whether he will be hit by foreign sugar-coated shells, and whether he will return to China in the future.
But as the saying goes, suspicious people don't have to use people without doubt, since Mao Wei was chosen, then everyone must believe her. In this way, with the expectations and worries of the world, Mao Wei came to the University of California in the United States for further study.
Here Mao Wei really learned a lot of new knowledge that could not be contacted in China, and with such favorable conditions, her academic performance and academic level have also increased by leaps and bounds.
Not only that, during his later doctoral studies, Mao Wei also met a Chinese compatriot who also studied in the United States, and the two with the same ambition fell in love at first sight and quickly confirmed their relationship.
After graduating with a doctorate, Mao Wei successfully obtained an invitation from a famous chip company in Silicon Valley, successfully became a core member of the company, and relying on her excellent work ability and solid theoretical foundation, she soon became the head of a major project.
The company is very satisfied with Mao Wei's ability to work, so the top management also specially offered Mao Wei a million dollars a million dollars a yearly salary, but this million annual salary is naturally not given in vain.
These Americans also have their own intentions, that is, to keep Mao Wei in the United States and prevent her from bringing the core technology of the United States back to China.
In fact, according to the treatment given by the United States, as well as many promises in the open and in the dark, most people may not be able to resist this great temptation. But Mao Wei was not, she knew the American plan from beginning to end.
The treatment enjoyed in American companies over the years is also her "lying down to taste the guts", her purpose is only one, she has never forgotten her original intention, that is, to fully master the core technology of chip technology, and then bring it back to China to benefit the Chinese people.
With such a belief, Mao Wei's every day in the United States is very difficult, because these Americans are really too good to her, and such courtesy makes Mao Wei's heart even have a trace of inexplicable guilt.
Fortunately, in the end, a firm patriotic belief overcame this helplessness, and in the next second that the opportunity was ripe, she resolutely quit her high-paying job and returned to China with her husband.
After learning that Mao Wei returned to China, the responsible people in the relevant fields in China collectively boiled over, and some experts even asserted that as long as Mao Wei was there, China's chip technology would not take more than twenty years to successfully break through the US blockade.
Of course, this prediction is accurate, and it did not take twenty years at all, in just ten years, under the joint research and development of Mao Wei and her husband, as well as various talents, they developed China's first generation of high-end optical communication chips.
With this hard-won chip, the mainland's scientific research career immediately achieved rapid development, and the strong blockade plan of the United States has since declared bankruptcy.
Such a feat is unprecedented, but Mao Wei and his wife do not have a trace of pride, because in their view, doing practical things for the country and the people is exactly what they should be responsible for, not only will they not be proud, but they will continue to develop more and better chips in the future, so that China has completely stepped into the ranks of scientific and technological powers.