At the end of Jihai, Gengzichun. The Jingchu epidemic infected tens of thousands. The people are panicked, the national defense is raised, and the houses are closed, there are no cars and boats, and the alleys are empty. However, the wolves also moved, salivating and waiting, and the back of the Chinese belly was thorny.
More than a year has passed since the pandemic, and looking back at that time, it seems like the end of the world, even though they are face-to-face, but they still can't get close to each other.
During these difficult years, many heroes for the country and the people have emerged, always at the forefront, and every time they appear where people need them most, Wang Jian is one of them.
Regarding his evaluation, it is divided into two extremes, on the one hand, he is the "anti-epidemic pioneer" who saves the people from fire and water, and on the other hand, he is a treacherous businessman who makes a fortune in the country.
What kind of person is Wang Jian, and why is everyone's evaluation of him polarized?
The source in this article comes from official media, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!
A hard-working and hard-working genius
Wang Jian is the first Chinese scientist to complete an expedition to the South and Arctic regions of the earth, climb Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, and dive to the deepest part of the world's seas to carry out abyssal scientific research.
Behind every great life person has a bitter childhood experience, about his childhood memory is: as if he will never be able to eat, only if he has good grades in the exam, his mother will make food for himself.
In this way, in order to have a full meal, he studied hard every day, and naturally formed a habit until he was admitted to Hunan Medical University in 1976, and then went to Beijing for graduate school, and finally studied abroad.
When he returned from studying in the United States, he was strongly blocked by the United States because they were worried that there would be a second Qian Xuesen in China, one in the field of nuclear bomb aviation and the other in the field of bioengineering.
In 1991, Wang Jian established the Chinese Biomedical Association in Seattle, wanting to introduce genetic engineering technology into China, which made Lao Mei very unhappy.
After all, at that time, there were not many countries in the world that had mastered this technology, and mature gene sequencing projects played an important role in medical, chemical and biological aspects, while China was a blank in this regard.
In 1994, China had gradually developed, and although Wang Jian's return to China was not smooth, there was no captivity, and he began to do the usual operation - throwing money if the threat was not successful.
Wang Jian was born in a turbulent era, learned from his parents about the humiliation of the country, and as a Chinese man, he wanted to contribute to the country.
He didn't blink his eyes, and decisively refused the sky-high reward, but he couldn't forget a word of the American before leaving.
"Bioengineering, even the United States has been studying it for 20 years, will China use it for 200 years?"
This sentence is very harsh, but it is very true, at that time, domestic scientific research and technology was still in the initial stage of development, and almost no one would try this field, which was simply self-inflicted.
Dare to think and dare to do has always been Wang Jian's style of doing things, and he also attracted the dissatisfaction of everyone, and soon ushered in the first highlight moment of his life.
In 1999, the United States led a project called Human Genetic Composition, which involved mapping 3 billion bases in human genes into a genetic genealogy.
Wang Jian thought that this was an opportunity for China to get in touch with genetic engineering, so he signed up for this project without the approval of his superiors and undertook 1% of the gene sequencing project.
This matter is not only fried abroad, but also in the field of domestic scientific research, don't underestimate this 1% of the data, for 0 experience China, it is a very huge project.
Wang Jian's return to China was to fill the gap in the field of genetic engineering in China, but research and development definitely needed funds, so he established a biomedical company with his classmates.
The reagents developed one after another made a lot of money for the company, and finally waited for this opportunity after 5 years, so he sold his current company and established Beijing BGI Research Center.
In order to concentrate on the study of the 1% gene sequencing project, he led the team to study for a whole year, and finally completed the 1% sequencing project in an environment where various instruments and equipment were insufficient, which won unanimous praise at home and abroad.
It can be seen from this incident that Wang Jian's image is a bit like a mad scientist, even if difficult scientific research projects can always succeed in his hands, but in the end, how can he be said to be a profiteer?
Both outbreaks came to the fore
Anyone who knows Wang Jian should know that his Wanguan family fortune seems to have earned money on the way to scientific research, not insisting on becoming a businessman.
In 2002, there was a large-scale outbreak of SARS in China, and because it was indistinguishable from pneumonia, people had great difficulty in protecting and treating it.
Wang Jianzai saw that the number of infected people was increasing, and many medical staff had also fallen, and the scene was chaotic for a while, so he couldn't stand it anymore and insisted on entering the infected area to collect pathogens.
This kind of behavior is too dangerous, and he was blocked by everyone, and he angrily promised that as long as he got the pathogen, he would definitely complete the gene sequencing and make the test reagents in the fastest time, so as to protect the lives of more people from infection.
He led the BGI research team to complete the gene sequencing in only 36 hours, and also produced a large number of detection reagents, making an important contribution to the epidemic prevention work of SARS.
The most important point is that he can use the detection reagent as a project, produce and sell it himself, and make a profit from it, but he donates it to the country for free.
The reason why Wang Jian made such a decision was mainly influenced by his parents, whose father told him since he was a child: Only when the country is strong can the people live a good life.
In 2000, when the new crown epidemic broke out, Wang Jian once again took the company's staff team to Wuhan, the hardest-hit area, and began the work of gene sequencing.
Due to the continuous mutation of the new crown strain, their sequencing work also faced different difficulties and tests, and in the next three months, the new crown and variants were tested, and reliable detection reagents were developed.
Slowly it has become a familiar "nucleic acid test", and people's greetings are no longer "Have you eaten", but "Have you done nucleic acid?"
Wang Jian's company also needs to operate, because the new crown epidemic has spread to the world, so the new crown detection reagent market is very broad, and the market value of his company has also risen, all the way to 22.2 billion.
It is precisely for this reason that many people questioned him for making a fortune and pushed him to the forefront, and Wang Jian did not respond when he learned of such remarks, but continued to study the field of biological genetic engineering scientific research.
Wang Jian's goal in life before he studied for his Ph.D. was to become a scientist, and some experiences in the United States have changed him, and the gap in the field of scientific research is not half a star.
There is a fossil specimen of a mammoth at the headquarters of BGI, which is very large, and it reads: Forever alive, eternal existence.
On May 28, 2018, Wang Jian, chairman of BGI, said at the Guiyang Digital Expo forum that the company's employees are not allowed to have birth defects and require employees to live to be 100 years old.
He put forward such a beautiful vision based on the scientific community's prediction of average life expectancy, and he wanted to live to be 120 years old, and he also painted the tombstone of "Wang Jian: 1954-2074, a wonderful life" in Huada Group.
Wang Jian has never forgotten the mission on his shoulders, leading China's bioengineering technology to a big step forward, and his evaluation is also that the benevolent and the wise see the wise, whether it is a profiteer or an anti-epidemic pioneer, as long as he abides by the law and does not endanger the interests of society and the people, he is a good person.
Resources:
Economic Daily: BGI: The Flagship of Global Genetic Research.
Netease Finance: "BGI Genomics: Employees Must Live to the Age of 100 Department Chairman Wang Jian's Beautiful Vision".
Sina.com: "BGI Wang Jian: Solving the Epidemic Dilemma, Putting Accurate Detection and Diagnosis in the Same Important Position as Clinical Rescue".