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"Can academicians still open hospitals?" is a question in the minds of many people.
Speaking of Li Lanjuan, most people know that she should have started with the Wuhan epidemic, and now, Li Lanjuan has returned to people's field of vision again, but this time what attracted people's attention was the family business behind her with a valuation of nearly 4 billion...
01 From barefoot doctor to well-known academician
In 1947, Li Lanjuan was born in a poor rural family in Shaoxing, Zhejiang.
She had excellent grades since she was a child, and was successfully admitted to the provincial key high school, but she was unlucky, and she was just in time for the cancellation of the college entrance examination.
Perhaps out of her love for health, she taught herself Chinese medicine and acupuncture, gave up her job as a substitute teacher to become a "barefoot doctor", and started her life's medical career.
After that, it took 8 years for Li Lanjuan to become the attending doctor of the provincial hospital from a barefoot doctor.
In 1998, Li Lanjuan became the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Health, when she was 51 years old.
In the following 20 years, Li Lanjuan gradually stepped out of the corner of the place, stepped into the public eye, and became a high-profile public figure.
In 2003, due to the implementation of a series of innovative epidemic prevention measures, Li Lanjuan played a pivotal role in the fight against SARS in Zhejiang Province and won wide praise from all walks of life.
In 2013, the scientific team led by her successfully revealed the pathogenic nature of the H7N9 avian influenza virus and publicly released the whole genome sequence of the virus, a major breakthrough that once again attracted global attention.
At the beginning of 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic was raging, and Li Lanjuan's name became a household name.
However, her most remarkable achievement is the creation of the "Li-ALS" artificial liver support system (Li-ALS), which ushered in a new era in the treatment of severe hepatitis liver failure.
Now, according to media reports, Li Lanjuan has many titles: academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, director of the National Artificial Liver Training Base, leader of the liver failure and artificial liver group, etc.
It is worth mentioning that Li Lanjuan's husband Zheng Shusen is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and enjoys a good reputation in the field of liver transplantation, which can be called an authoritative expert in this field.
They are both experts in their respective fields, and they both have the title of academician, which also gives Shulan Medical the strongest aura.
02 Academicians run medical institutions
In 2013, Li Lanjuan and her spouse Zheng Shusen co-founded Shulan Medical, the name of the company was cobbled together from the names of the husband and wife.
At the time of its inception, Li Lanjuan was a director of Shulan Medical, and now she has quietly stepped down in 2020. In June last year, Li Lanjuan's husband, Zheng Shusen, also decided to resign from his six-year role as a non-executive director of Shulan Medical.
Today, Shulan Medical has been handed over to their two sons, Zheng Jie and Zheng Jun, and public information also shows that the actual control of the company is currently in the hands of the two sons.
It is worth mentioning that the company still has certain advantages, and organ transplantation is its core competitiveness.
According to relevant statistics, in 2020, the number of liver transplants performed by Shulan Medical was among the top medical institutions in the country.
However, in recent years, Shulan Medical's business situation has not been satisfactory.
It has been in the red for the past three years, especially in 2022, with a loss of 111 million yuan. Fortunately, I received a government subsidy of 80 million yuan last year, and the financial statements looked better.
Although Li Lanjuan and his wife have long since ceased to hold any position in Shulan Medical, as the founders, they still play a significant role in Shulan Medical's reputation and influence.
Since its establishment, Shulan Medical has been warmly sought after by the capital market, and many well-known investment institutions such as Sequoia China, PICC Capital, and China Life Equity Investment have participated in it, raising a total of 900 million yuan after several rounds of financing.
After the completion of the last round of financing, Shulan Medical's market valuation soared to 8 billion yuan. According to the proportion of equity held by Li Lanjuan's children, it is expected that their family's wealth will reach a staggering 4 billion yuan.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the vast number of netizens, and many people lamented that "doctors were supposed to be angels who saved lives and helped the wounded, but now they have become mercenary businessmen." Some people even questioned "using the status of academicians to seek personal gains," and some people asked, "Do academicians have the right to establish hospitals?"
In fact, there are precedents for academicians to successfully establish companies and successfully land in the capital market, such as Shi Yigong, Pan Jianwei and others.
03 Public opinion and medical anti-corruption
In recent years, corruption in the medical industry has had many negative impacts on medical services.
In the case of Zhong Nanshan, his 1,000-yuan registration fee has also raised questions about the fairness of medical services, which some people see as a form of corruption.
However, the emergence of this phenomenon is, to a certain extent, also the result of the imbalance between supply and demand under the market mechanism.
This time, with Shulan Medical's listing plan, market valuation, and Li Lanjuan's family value, medical corruption has once again been pushed to a climax.
After all, in people's traditional concepts, it is relatively rare for academicians to open hospitals, and it is even rarer to push enterprises into the capital market.
Behind this phenomenon is the fierce collision between professional ethics and business interests.
In order to curb corruption in the medical industry, relevant state departments have launched a series of anti-corruption actions to severely crack down on "fly corruption and ant corruption" around the masses.
Therefore, in the process of anti-corruption and clean government in the medical field, it is very necessary to take a set of effective measures.
For example, it is necessary to strengthen the education and training of medical practitioners, improve the management system of the medical and health industry, intensify supervision, and severely punish corruption and bribery.
At the same time, as practitioners in the medical industry, medical workers should continuously improve their professional ethics, conduct in-depth research on relevant laws and regulations, consciously abide by medical ethics, and make concerted efforts to maintain the high quality and good reputation of medical services.
In addition, lawyers also play a pivotal role in the fight against medical corruption. They are able to provide patients with professional legal assistance and advice, help patients protect their legitimate rights and interests, and work closely with regulatory authorities to jointly promote the proper resolution of problems.
For the broad masses of the people, "the body is the capital of the revolution", and we should be the first responsible for our own health. Therefore, in daily life, we should attach great importance to health management and master the necessary medical knowledge to ensure physical and mental health.
In short, the fight against corruption in medical care is not achieved overnight, and it is bound to be a long-term and arduous task. We need to further enhance information disclosure and transparency, strengthen supervision, severely punish illegal acts, crack down on online medical fraud, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of patients, so as to create a fair, honest and safe medical environment.
Information sources:
Yicai "Founded by Academician Li Lanjuan and his wife, this medical group seeks to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market again, and it is still losing money after receiving government subsidies of more than 90 million yuan last year"