"Deliver, it's a big deal that I resign!"
After several days of ideological struggle, on the evening of September 10, 2008, Jian Guangzhou, a reporter for Oriental Daily, put the manuscript in his hand on the editor's desk.
The next day, the front page of the Oriental Daily published a report written by Jian Guangzhou entitled "14 Babies in Gansu Fell Ill at the Same Time and Suspected of Drinking Sanlu Milk Powder."
For a time, it caused an earthquake in China's dairy industry, the boss of Sanlu Group was imprisoned, and the former industry giant collapsed overnight.
Later, Jian Guangzhou, who exposed the truth, was rumored to commit suicide, what did he go through?
Sanlu milk powder, shocking evil
In June 2008, a post appeared on the Internet. A netizen said that her daughter, who had been drinking Sanlu milk powder for a long time, had some abnormal urination. There were also media reports that 14 babies with kidney stones appeared in a county hospital in Gansu.
Upon hearing the news, Jian Guangzhou, a reporter for Shanghai's "Oriental Morning Post," couldn't sit still. In order to find out the truth of the matter, he rushed to Gansu the next day and found Zhang Wei, the attending doctor of the 14 babies.
After investigation and inquiry, they found that sick babies have a common characteristic, that is, drinking Sanlu milk powder for a long time.
Jian Guangzhou immediately thought of the Fuyang inferior milk powder incident that he and his colleague Dong Xiaoheng reported a few years ago:
Nearly 100 babies have physical development disorders due to the consumption of inferior milk powder, resulting in large heads and small bodies, which are commonly known as "big-headed dolls".
The similar symptoms made Jian Guangzhou realize that he might have to poke the "hornet's nest" this time.
At that time, Sanlu milk powder was a leading enterprise in China's dairy industry, with a brand value of 15 billion yuan, a market share of 18%, and won the National Science and Technology Progress Award in January 2008.
If such a big brand really does things about food safety and disregards the lives of thousands of babies, it is an unspeakable crime.
In the same way, if there is no investigation and rash reporting, it will not only damage the credibility of the national brand, but also completely ruin his career.
Seeing the young children suffering from illness, Jian Guangzhou felt obligated to find the truth.
For this reason, he specially bought a bag of Sanlu milk powder for 18 yuan and sent it to the testing center for testing. As a result, his heart was half cold, and the melamine in this bag of milk powder exceeded the standard by 200 times.
Melamine is a chemical raw material that can form melamine in the body if ingested, which can lead to kidney stones.
He didn't expect that this chemical raw material would be added to the milk powder of infants and young children.
In order to ensure the authenticity of the information, he bought several Sanlu milk powder at different prices and sent them for testing, and the results were all melamine exceeded.
The truth is about to come out, and Sanlu milk powder is the culprit of these babies' illness.
However, how to report made Jian Guangzhou difficult. After all, Sanlu Group is a big enterprise, how can he, a reporter, compete with others?
After several struggles, Jian Guangzhou decided to follow his heart and wrote a report entitled "14 Babies in Gansu Fell Ill at the Same Time and Suspected of Drinking Sanlu Milk Powder" and published it in the newspaper.
After Jian Guangzhou's report was published, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, the whole country was shocked, and "Sanlu milk powder" became the focus of heated discussions on the streets and alleys.
Many parents rushed to the hospital with their children for examinations, and more and more children were diagnosed with kidney stones or even more serious kidney disease. The parents of these children were furious and spoke out collectively to demand that the relevant authorities thoroughly investigate the matter.
Driven by public opinion, the State Council quickly set up an investigation team for the Sanlu incident, thus tearing apart the unknown inside story of the dairy industry.
12 well-known companies related to Sanlu milk powder have been confirmed to have excessive melamine, and as many as 300,000 babies have been victimized, and some children have even lost their lives.
What is even more infuriating is that Tian Wenhua, chairman of Sanlu Group, knew about and acquiesced in the melamine incident.
It turned out that as early as the first consumer complaint, the technical department inspected the milk powder involved.
Of the 16 samples sent for testing, 15 contained melamine, but Tian Wenhua did not pay attention to the matter and asked for confidentiality of the matter, calling melamine a substance A.
In the end, the Sanlu milk powder incident ended with the fall of dozens of executives, the declaration of bankruptcy of Sanlu Group, and the life imprisonment of Chairman Tian Wenhua.
When the dust settled, people began to notice Jian Guangzhou, the reporter and editor of the report, and everyone was very curious, why did he dare to be a leading enterprise in the industry? This has to start with his upbringing.
Take the pen as the sword, and speak up
In 1973, Jian Guangzhou was born in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, and the parents of the Jian family did not have a high level of education, but they taught their son from an early age to have a conscience and tell the truth. It is difficult for children raised by such a family education to be unproductive.
In 1993, Jian Guangzhou, who pinned the hopes of his family, was admitted to the Department of Journalism of Nanchang University with excellent results and began a seven-year study process.
In 2000, Jian Guangzhou, who graduated from graduate school, joined a local media in Nanchang as a reporter.
At that time, the approval procedures for many news were very strict, and there were many "rules", and Jian Guangzhou took great pains to investigate and wrote the manuscript carefully, but it was rejected several times.
This makes Jian Guangzhou very contradictory, he wants to present the truth to the reader, but in real work, the manuscript must conform to the mainstream tone and the main theme.
Jian Guangzhou can only be like a hedgehog that has been plucked out, putting away his edge and personality, and doing repetitive work day after day. Eventually, he couldn't take it anymore.
In 2003, Jian Guangzhou resigned decisively and came to the bustling city of Shanghai to join the newly established Oriental Morning Post.
The Oriental Morning Post, the predecessor of The Paper, is known as China's New York Times, and in terms of form and content, it has changed the "pan-entertainment" characteristics of metropolitan newspapers, and reports on very in-depth and influential events.
Here, Jian Guangzhou is like a fish in water. He is professional and solid, perceptive, and not afraid of hardships and dangers, and has gone deep into the front line and written many in-depth articles and reports.
In 2005, he published a report entitled "Removal of the uterus of two mentally handicapped teenagers in a welfare home, doctors say similar surgeries are common". Publicly expose the behavior of a welfare institution that brutally deprives a girl with mental disorders of her reproductive rights.
The report sparked heated public discussions, and the mentally handicapped community received social attention, and the director and surgeon of the welfare home received the punishment they deserved.
Although he is quite famous in the media field, it was the report about Sanlu poisoned milk powder that really brought him into the public eye.
In this report, Jian Guangzhou named and bravely named "Sanlu", which not only triggered a major earthquake in China's dairy industry, but also indirectly saved the lives of countless babies.
Some scholars believe that this move has promoted the introduction of China's food safety law.
It can be said that Jian Guangzhou has single-handedly set up a line of defense for the safety of Chinese food.
Since then, food safety has begun to penetrate into the hearts of every Chinese, thus promoting China's food safety production to be sound and perfect.
The dust has settled, and the dream is dead
Based on this report, Jian Guangzhou was named the 2008 "China Jiaozi New Talent List" Person of the Year.
"With the power of one person, it has aroused the attention of the whole country and safeguarded the health of people's lives, which is a great contribution. This was the evaluation of Jian Guangzhou by China's cutting-edge figures at that time, and it was also the public's praise for him.
Under normal circumstances, Jian Guangzhou, who is honored with honor, should take advantage of the situation and make great achievements. But not long after, Jian Guangzhou resigned from the "Oriental Morning Post" and even disappeared from the media industry.
Why is that?
It turned out that as soon as the report was issued, Sanlu Group took emergency public relations treatment.
On the one hand, they threatened Jian Guangzhou and the Oriental Morning Post to withdraw the news and apologize, and on the other hand, they brought out the test report issued by the Gansu Provincial Quality Inspection Bureau and the newly won "National Science and Technology Progress Award" to reassure people.
Under the deliberate guidance of Sanlu Group, netizens who didn't know the truth blindly stood in line and reprimanded Jian Guangzhou for wanting to be famous and going crazy.
It was not until the Gansu Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau issued a press conference that it had never conducted any testing on Sanlu milk powder, that is, the report taken out by Sanlu Group was fake, which blocked Youyou's mouth.
However, some radicals have found a new excuse to attack Jian Guangzhou. They accuse him of undermining the development of China's dairy industry, ruining the reputation of national brands, and making people pay high prices for foreign milk powder, which has had a serious impact on economic development.
Regarding everyone's praise and criticism, Jian Guangzhou has always been treated with a normal heart, and in his opinion, he just did what he should do.
Later, he published a series of articles about Yang Yongxin's electroshock treatment for Internet addicted teenagers, which caused many people to resist, and some parents blamed and abused, which seriously affected his work and life.
With the birth of his daughter, Jian Guangzhou gradually retreated, because he didn't want his family to be affected by him, and he didn't want them to live a life of fear.
On August 30, 2012, Jian Guangzhou, who had worked in the press for many years, left his beloved post, leaving behind a sentence of "the dream is dead" and resigned from the Oriental Morning Post.
After resigning, Jian Guangzhou founded a brand consulting company called "Huanzhi Media", and changed the track to continue to do news. 10 years later, Huanzhi Media has become the fastest growing brand planning and promotion agency in China.
In 2018, in order to improve his management ability, Jian Guangzhou applied for the EMBA training course of Fudan University.
On September 22 this year, Jian Guangzhou participated in the forum on new technologies and integrated media management at the International Business School of Shanghai Wai Chinese University, listed the Sanlu milk powder incident, and introduced the crisis management concept of enterprises in the new media era to the students.
After many years, the "big-headed dolls" who drank poisoned milk powder have grown up, and many people still remember the Sanlu milk powder incident vividly, but they have almost no impression of the trumpeter Jian Guangzhou.
However, those children and parents who were deeply poisoned by Sanlu milk powder did not forget Jian Guangzhou, and ran to his social account that was hardly updated, leaving messages to express their concern.
"I'm relieved to know you're doing well. ”
"The demeanor of a chivalrous man, you are a real media person for the country and the people, and you are the son of light. ”
These sincere messages are the greatest encouragement and recognition of Jian Guangzhou's career.
Write at the end
Someone interviewed Jian Guangzhou: You have saved thousands of families with your own efforts, but you have left your favorite career, have you ever regretted it?
Jian Guangzhou said that he has never regretted it, even if he goes back in time, he will still choose to hit the stone with an egg, be tough with the Sanlu Group, and truthfully report the truth, which is the duty of a reporter.
Although he has left the news industry, he still pays attention to China's food safety, and although his social accounts are not updated frequently, he reposts all the livelihood issues related to people's vegetable baskets and rice bags.
Reporter, remember the original intention, remember the mission, remember the responsibility, remember the perseverance, remember the action.
Jian Guangzhou is such a journalist, and he will always deserve our respect.
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