Recently, a news that "Dr. Fudan has been living on the streets of the United States for 16 years" has attracted widespread attention. Some netizens met a homeless man on the streets of New York, and after talking, they found that he was an alumnus of Fudan University.
This man's name is Sun Weidong, a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu, who has shown a talent in physics since he was a child, so he was admitted to the physics major of Fudan University's junior class. In order to cultivate top physics talents, Sun Weidong was recognized by Tsung-Dao Lee after graduating from his undergraduate degree and was given the opportunity to go to the United States for further study at public expense. With the full support of the state, Sun Weidong successfully completed his master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral studies in the United States, and finally chose to become an American citizen.
However, Dr. Sun's career path in the United States was not all smooth sailing. After many failed job searches, he chose to lie flat in Manhattan's Chinatown and exile himself. He lived a life of sleeping in the open and without food, and this wandering was a full 16 years. Who would have thought that the ambitions and ideals of the past could only be gradually worn out in wandering.
After 16 years on the streets, Dr. Sun is now in his fifties, and the longing for his hometown and his roots is getting stronger and stronger. With the help of Fudan University alumni, Dr. Sun has been put on new clothes, cut his hair short, and has been properly settled.
The fact that Dr. Sun has been living on the streets of the United States for 16 years has continued to ferment in China, causing waves of discussion.
In fact, it is not surprising that international students like Dr. Sun, who came to the United States to study at national public expense, and finally became American citizens and worked for the United States. Especially in the 90s, when many high-end talents who went to study in the United States at public expense should have returned to China to serve the motherland after graduation, but they chose to become American citizens and contribute to the United States. This is really regrettable and helpless.
However, Dr. Sun's case has caused heated discussions among netizens, and everyone's focus is no longer on the issue of his naturalization as an American citizen, but on the question of whether China should accept him back to China. This issue has stirred up a thousand waves like a stone, and has caused widespread discussion and controversy on the Internet.
Some netizens believe that Dr. Sun has become an American citizen, and that an American has nothing to do with China, and China has no obligation to take him back to China. Some netizens hold the opposite opinion, believing that although Dr. Sun has become an American citizen, he is Chinese after all, and he is also a high-end talent, and the Chinese are in trouble, so Chinese should help.
Song Qinghui, a well-known economist, strongly suggested that we should immediately bring Sun Weidong back to China. After all, although the doctor has American citizenship, his roots are still in China. He likened it to a big tree, whose branches and leaves grow abroad, but whose roots are still deeply rooted in the motherland.
In addition to expert Song, many experts called for the state to pay for Dr. Sun to return to China, and give him a settling-in allowance, place him to work in universities or research institutions, and give him a high salary, with an annual salary of no less than 1 million.
In response to many experts' calls for the state to help Dr. Sun, the well-known editor-in-chief Hu Xijin angrily recited four words: "Why?" Lao Hu said that the state would never spend taxpayers' money to take care of him, an American, and this would chill other high-tech talents who insisted on staying in China. Lao Hu also said that those Fudan people did not hesitate to help this troubled alumnus at their own expense, which made me deeply feel the warm alumni love in Chinese universities, and it is also a healthy humanism.
So, do you think the country should lend a helping hand to these Chinese Americans in distress?