Although he is controversial, he is still known as the "godfather of genes" by everyone, and even made a tombstone for himself, planning a wonderful life to live to the age of 120.
In the show, he unabashedly expressed his pursuit of "eternal life", and he wanted to make human beings immortal through genetic technology.
Even his employees were required to live to be 100 years old, and such an arrogant attitude attracted the contempt of countless people, but some people considered him a "hero".
In his body, he has always been controversial, and in the three years of the epidemic, he took the opportunity to earn 22.28 billion yuan, and was scolded for "national difficult wealth", who is he? What kind of person is he?
Can age be controlled?
In 2010, even though he was over half a hundred years old, 56-year-old Wang Jian still chose to challenge the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, and with him, Wang Shi, the founder of Vanke.
As early as 2003, Wang Shi successfully climbed Mount Everest, becoming the oldest climber in China to summit Mount Everest, and in the four years since, he has summited 11 peaks.
In 2010, Wang Shi was 59 years old, although he was only three years older than Wang Jian, but during the climbing, Wang Shi still had many adverse reactions.
Compared with Wang Jian and Wang Shi, there seems to be no situation, as if he climbed the same mountain as Wang Shi, and this is not the first time Wang Jian has challenged his limits.
In various extreme sports, Wang Jian is also the first Chinese scientist to complete expeditions to the South and Arctic regions, climb Mount Everest, and dive to the deepest part of the world's seas to carry out abyssal scientific expeditions.
Compared with his advanced age to challenge various extreme sports, more people pay attention to his physical state, under various extreme sports, many young people are inevitably frustrated, but he seems to be at ease, more like a young man than a young man.
This can't help but remind people that Wang Jian once said that he would live to be 120 years old, and even the tombstone prepared for himself has engraved the time from birth to death "1954-2074".
He is known by many as the "godfather of genes", he believes that genes can make humans younger and live longer, is it really because of genes that he shows a completely inconsistent athletic performance ability at such an advanced age?
In a foreign book and periodical, a similar situation was introduced, and foreign scientists conducted experiments with mice in the laboratory, and finally concluded that the mental state of the mice had indeed improved significantly.
But Wang Jian does not blindly rely on the gene technology he believes in, he knows that gene technology can benefit mankind, but the most important thing is human beings, only by exercising more, can their cells remain alive.
Therefore, he wants his employees to live to the age of 100, so he has set an unwritten rule in the company, try to take the elevator less and take the stairs more, as long as he succeeds in quitting smoking, the company will have a reward.
He is the founder of Huada Group, and during the SARS epidemic, he developed SARS diagnostic kits and donated all of them to the country, but in the new crown epidemic in 2020, he was infamous as "national hardship", why is this?
A conscientious entrepreneur who earns "national disaster money".
In 1999, in order to represent China in the International Human Genome Project, Wang Jian and Yang Huanming founded BGI and undertook some of the tasks of the project.
Later, he led BGI, from the initial commitment, to the integration with international standards, to the independent completion of the "Asian Genome Atlas", and then to lead the support to complete the transformation, Wang Jian has been unknown when doing these things, until the outbreak of SARS, he was not well known.
At that time, the outbreak of SARS caused panic across the country, but at this critical moment, someone donated 300,000 SARS kits for free, and he was Wang Jian.
At that time, many scientists were at a loss in the face of the SARS virus, whether they wanted to develop targeted reagents or reagents to detect the virus, the premise was to understand the virus and decipher the structure of the virus.
However, the decipherment of the structure of the virus has never progressed, and even fell into a white heat, Wang Jian chose to stand up at this critical moment and joined the scientific research team.
After joining the research team, Wang Jian successfully deciphered the structure of 4 SARS viruses and developed a kit to detect the virus.
In this case, if you follow the businessman's thinking, you can make a lot of money by selling the kit, but Wang Jian chose to donate it to the country for free.
After the SARS crisis overcame, Wang Jian once again led his team to devote himself to genetic research, and his team became the first private institution in China to acquire a U.S. listed company, and was called "a model of Chinese innovation" by international bigwigs and media.
When BGI went public, Wang Jian said that he would use genetic science to do things for the benefit of mankind and be a pioneer in "challenging the limits of life science and technology".
Because of his significant contributions to SARS, Wang Jian has become a "conscientious entrepreneur" in the hearts of many people, but this title has changed since the emergence of the new crown.
"Genius" vs. "Madman"
At the end of 2019, countless people were preparing to embark on the journey home for the New Year, and people across the country were preparing for the arrival of the New Year, but the new crown was menacing, breaking the trajectory of people's lives.
Under the leadership of the country, the whole country made concerted efforts, residents stayed at home and quarantined, and countless retrograde people rushed to Wuhan, where the epidemic was most severe.
Among these countless retrogrades, Wang Jian's team is also among them, their purpose is not only to go to support, but also to crack the new crown virus like SARS back then.
After coming to Wuhan, the Red Eye Laboratory was also born, and Wang Jian led the team to study the virus day and night, and finally successfully cracked the structure of the virus and developed a nucleic acid reagent.
When he was in Wuhan, the number of tests needed to be carried out was as high as tens of thousands of times a day, and the output of accounting reagents was to ensure more than 100,000 per day.
Unlike SARS at that time, he donated 300,000 copies free of charge during the SARS period, but during the new crown epidemic, more than 100,000 nucleic acid reagents were produced every day.
If he continues to donate without compensation, he may not only lose all his money, but he may not even be able to continue his path of genetic scientific research, but it is precisely because he did not donate for free that he is infamous as a "national disaster".
But he is not like those who deliberately use the special period to make money, he does not have any bottom line and conscience, he earns the money he should earn, and he does these things to help the people of the whole country defeat the epidemic.
In the past few years of the epidemic, his assets have soared from 8 billion to 30 billion, earning 22.28 billion yuan.
But what we do know is that Wang Jian has made great contributions to the control of the new crown epidemic, and until now, BGI under his leadership has become the vanguard of the world's genetic field.
For Wang Jian, many people may have the impression that he is a "genius", leading the team step by step in the field of genetics research, to the forefront of the world.
But he also became a "madman" in the eyes of many people because of his "bold words", allowing himself to live to be 120 years old and the company's employees to live to be 100 years old.
But Wang Jian always knows what he is doing, what he is fighting for, and his goal is not only to complete his goal of living to the age of 120, nor just to make the company's employees live a long life, but to take human beings as the ultimate goal.
Although what he said made people feel like a madman, the real "madman" can often shock everyone, and now he has led BGI to become the vanguard of the world's genetic field, and using genetic technology to benefit mankind is his ultimate pursuit, what if he really does it?
Source: Beijing News: "BGI Wang Jian: Gene Maniac or Marketing Master?", released on May 31, 2018.
Changjiang Business Daily: "Wang Jian's controversy is riddled with wealth, and his wealth has shrunk by 25.6 billion, and he urgently needs to build a strong moat, BGI's dividend gradually retreats, and the deduction does not drop by 49%, and then falls into a whistleblowing storm", released on December 5, 2022.
BGI's official account: "News Network: 67-year-old BGI Chairman Wang Jian dives 10,000 meters deep into the sea to tackle scientific problems", released on December 7, 2021.