Something is wrong!
According to the announcement issued by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on April 26, 2024,
Yang Xiaoming, former chief engineer and chief scientist of China National Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., chief scientist of the national "863" program vaccine project, and known as the "father of China's Sinopharm vaccine" and "the father of China's new crown vaccine", was removed from his post as a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law.
Although there have been "tigers" falling every day in the past few years, there is no fuss. However, when Yang Xiaoming, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, has an accident, netizens are frightened......
Because he is the "father of China's new crown vaccine".
In February 1962, Yang Xiaoming was born in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, and is of Tibetan nationality.
From 1980 to 1985, he studied clinical medicine at Lanzhou Medical College and obtained a bachelor's degree in medicine.
From July 1985 to September 2002, he successively served as assistant researcher, associate researcher, research team leader and deputy director of the research office of Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products;
During this period, in order to achieve technological breakthroughs, Yang Xiaoming was selected by the organization to go to Japan and the United States for short-term study.
In 1997, he and his wife came to the National Institutes of Health, where he received the National Institutes of Medicine Research Achievement Award in 1999.
After the visit, Yang Xiaoming could have stayed in the United States, but he gave up the favorable working and living conditions in the United States and returned to China to serve as the executive deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in 2020, Yang Xiaoming, then chairman of China Biologics, led a team to Wuhan for testing, and finally determined that the virus was a new pathogen by continuously eliminating known pathogens. Forty-eight hours later, Sinobio announced that the coronavirus gene diagnostic kit had been successfully developed, and the first batch was recommended by the National Health Commission of China.
Subsequently, Yang Xiaoming led a team to invest in the research and development and production of inactivated vaccines against the coronavirus.
On December 31, 2020, Sinopharm China Biologics Beijing Company's inactivated coronavirus vaccine was the first to be conditionally approved for marketing.
Since then, the inactivated vaccine developed by Sinopharm and another company, Sinovac, has been mass-produced and exported to many countries.
According to the data of 21st Century Business Herald as of December 2022, the annual production capacity of China Biologics exceeds 10 billion doses, and a total of 3.5 billion doses have been supplied to global production.
The operating income of China National Pharmaceutical Group exceeded 700 billion yuan, ranking 80th among the world's top 500 companies and the first among global pharmaceutical companies. During the epidemic, the profit of Sinopharm Vaccine in 2021 is estimated to be hundreds of billions of yuan.
In an exclusive interview, Yang Xiaoming proudly said:
"It took us 98 days to do all the preclinical work, which can be said to be the power of the whole country, relying on the existing talent team and industrial advantages. ”
However, many experts believe that the rapid development of the new crown vaccine does not conform to medical common sense, and from global experience, it takes 8-10 years for a vaccine to be developed, with an investment of more than 1 billion. If it's faster, it will take 5 to 6 years.
The new crown vaccine developed by Yang Xiaoming's team has only taken 3 months from research and development to marketing, which can be called rocket speed.
Therefore, since the vaccine came out, the doubts about Yang Xiaoming have never stopped.
According to "China Biotech"
Yang Xiaoming also shared his experience of receiving the new crown vaccine:
"I was the first person to receive the vaccine we developed on March 23 last year, and as one of the first batch of 'test the drug', there was no abnormality after receiving the new crown inactivated vaccine, but the injection site was a little painful.
Because of the regular antibody testing after vaccination, I have had about 60 tubes of blood drawn in 9 months. Antibodies can be detected in the second week after the first shot, and high antibody levels can be detected about 2 weeks after the second shot. 'Trying the medicine' is a tradition. In the clinical trial of the new crown inactivated vaccine, tens of thousands of enrolled subjects have been vaccinated, many of whom are biological products.
Chinese biological people have a saying: be a vaccine that dares to give your family. This is our pursuit, and it is also our self-confidence. ”
In September 2020, Yang Xiaoming won the honorary title of "National Advanced Individual in Fighting the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic". He was also shortlisted for the list of candidates for academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering twice in 2021 and 2023.
However, it is shocking and surprising that this honorary chief scientist has been investigated for serious violations of law and discipline. Many netizens said they were trembling:
What the aunt wants to say is that the official report on Yang Xiaoming's suspected serious violations of discipline and law did not say whether it has anything to do with the vaccine, so don't overthink and panic.
The development and marketing of the new crown vaccine are subject to rigorous scientific experiments and approval procedures, and its safety and efficacy have been internationally recognized.
As for the "side effects" raised by netizens, the official has already given an authoritative answer, so I won't go into details.
We do not deny Yang Xiaoming's contribution during the epidemic, but as an important position, he has a heavy responsibility, and if there is an act of corrupting party discipline and state law, the party and the country will definitely punish him severely!