His name is Yin Xi, a name that once caused a sensation in Chinese scientific circles. His story is legendary, but it has also sparked widespread controversy. Let's walk into Yin Xi's life and explore his choices and the story behind them.
Yin Xi was born in December 1983 to a Kochi family in Beijing who welcomed their child. They named him Yoon Hee and hoped that he would have a bright future. And they may not realize that their children will become a high-profile character, and they will also be surrounded by public opinion in the future.
Before Yin Xi began to be sensible, his parents began to instill all kinds of knowledge in him. They want their children to win at the starting line, which is very important for them as Kochi. And Yin Xi did not live up to his parents' expectations, he showed an amazing talent for learning.
Yin Xi's parents bought a large number of books for him, hoping that he would be able to swim in the ocean of knowledge. Yin Xi also successfully embarked on the learning path set for him by his parents, he fell in love with learning and always tried his best to acquire new knowledge. For him, learning is a game in itself.
However, this "learning game" can also make Yin Xi feel bored at times. In class, he understood the knowledge taught by the teacher as soon as he heard it, and some of it was even known and mastered by him before he went to school. He got bored and began to fall asleep in class. Naturally, the teacher couldn't tolerate his students sleeping in class, and Yin Xi became the target of being called a parent.
However, Yoon's parents weren't surprised. To their surprise, their son was able to get close to a perfect score on every exam without attending classes. They began to examine what Yin Xi had learned, even in the upper grades. Surprisingly, Yin Xi memorizes the knowledge of the lower grades, and he can also talk about the knowledge of the upper grades.
Yin Xi's parents finally realized that their son was a real "prodigy". They hurriedly took their son and applied to the school to skip a grade. For a young child, skipping a grade means that the basic knowledge learned may be difficult to consolidate later on, increasing the risk of learning difficulties later in life. So the teacher didn't immediately agree to Yin Xi's application for skipping a grade, but took out a set of final papers, wanting to understand Yin Xi's true strength.
And it didn't take long for Yin Xi to successfully answer all the questions and get a full score. The teachers couldn't help but be shocked. They realized that Yin Xi was a rare genius and agreed to his request to skip a grade. Yin Xi also started to skip grades one after another.
In just two years, the nine-and-a-half-year-old Yin Xi successfully completed his primary school tasks and was admitted to the "experimental class" of Beijing No. 8 Middle School with outstanding strength. Although there are many talents here, Yin Xi can still become the best of these talents, and still skip from them. His thirst for knowledge can be said to be "like a wolf and a tiger".
After entering the experimental class, Yin Xi did not stop skipping grades. Although the knowledge of the experimental class is much more difficult than the ordinary courses of his peers, Yin Xi still understands it as soon as he listens to it, and he understands it and draws inferences from one another. In another three years, Yin Xi completed six years of other people's studies. 12-year-old Yin Xi began to take the college entrance examination. He is not a "pig's nose with green onions", but he really has the strength to participate in the college entrance examination. Because his Gaokao score was 572 points, and after the Gaokao, he was admitted to the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China.
Yin Xi became a part of USTC and became the youngest student in the school. If you were someone else, you would definitely get carried away with such achievements and start enjoying your comfortable time. But Yin Xi still has a deep obsession with absorbing knowledge. He did not stop studying hard, and coupled with his natural talent for learning, his academic performance at USTC has always been among the best, and his scores in all subjects have hardly been lower than 90 points.
Because of such outstanding grades, the school's scholarship has his share every year. He was also glad that he had been able to turn knowledge into money so early. So he wanted to continue his studies, and in 2001, Yin Xi, who was about to graduate, wanted to continue his studies at Harvard University in the United States. In his opinion, Harvard University's educational resources are more excellent, and he will definitely be able to learn more advanced knowledge and improve his professional level.
The school also believes that Yin Xi can be sent to the United States to learn advanced knowledge, as long as he can serve the motherland after returning from his studies. It is worth mentioning that Yin Xi's study in the United States this time is actually a publicly-funded study. And Yin Xi, who arrived in the United States, also lived up to expectations, learned more in-depth knowledge, and not long after entering the school, he showed his excellent learning ability, and once became a "scholar" in the eyes of those foreigners.
The school is very happy and waiting for Yin Xi to return from his studies. However, their hopes were ultimately dashed. After graduating in 2006, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. The school is very pleased that its students have finally succeeded. However, when the school was still waiting for Yin Xi to return to China, people were surprised to find that Yin Xi had abandoned his Chinese nationality and joined the United States!
This is undoubtedly a betrayal. But the reason Yin Xi said made a group of netizens silent. It turned out that after Yin Xi received his doctorate and became a Chinese-American, Harvard University thought that Yin Xi was a once-in-a-century talent, and also thought that he could make a difference in the academic world. Therefore, the school specially provided him with all kinds of preferential treatment, so that he could live in the United States smoothly.
In order to fully explore Yin Xi's learning talent, the school also broke the previous tradition and gave Yin Xi a chance to continue to read "postdoc". Mr. Yin was dazzled by the benefits he had not yet experienced in China, and he thought he could thrive more in the United States than in China. Therefore, in the study and life of a postdoctoral student, Yin Xi is still working hard to learn all kinds of knowledge, overcoming many scientific experiments, and trying his best to make a difference in the American academic community.
After that, Yin Xi stayed in the United States and began to look for a job, and Harvard also directly threw an olive branch to him, Yin Xi directly became a full professor at Harvard University, and did his best to deliver fresh blood to the United States. After the Chinese media and other industries learned that Yin Xi, a Chinese genius, had betrayed the motherland, all kinds of public opinion about Yin Xi also fermented.
The media also found Yin Xi and asked him why he chose to abandon his Chinese nationality and become an American citizen. "Although China is the motherland that cultivated me, the resource conditions of the United States are much better than China's," Yin said. For a while, netizens discussed a lot, and their comments on Yin Xi were also mixed.
Some people believe that since Yin Xi knows that it is China that gave birth to him and raised him, he should always maintain his identity as a Chinese and contribute to the motherland. And there are also those who believe that Yin Xi's development abroad can indeed fully uncover his outstanding talents, and in their view, there are many problems in China's academic circles, and if Yin Xi completes his studies in China, he may not be able to see everyone.
And so far, Yin Xi still has not returned to China, and is still doing his best in the American academic community. So, what do you think of Yin Xi's change of nationality and contribution to the United States?