On October 28, Huang Xuhua, winner of the "Order of the Republic" and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, donated 11 million yuan to the 719 Institute of China Shipbuilding. In addition to Academician Huang Xuhua, "Iron and Steel Academician" Cui Kun, "Cloth Academician" Lu Yonggen, etc. have also donated large sums of savings to support scientific research, education, poverty alleviation and other undertakings. The great hero is for the country and the people. salute! Behind the generosity is unimaginable frugality, and cui Kun's jacket was even worn for 30 years.
Academician Huang Xuhua, winner of the "Order of the Republic": Donated another 11 million yuan, and almost all the prize money was donated
On October 28, the winner of the "Order of the Republic", the winner of the highest national science and technology award, and the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering donated 11 million yuan to the 719 Institute of China Shipbuilding as a scientific and technological innovation reward fund to encourage more outstanding talents to stand out.
"My donation hopes to play the role of 'throwing bricks and leading jade', play the role of 'seed', arouse the response of the society, and let more people pay attention to, care for and support scientific research, education and science popularization." Huang Xuhua said.
On December 26, 1970, China's first nuclear submarine was launched. Huang Xuhua and his colleagues made China the fifth country in the world to possess nuclear submarines after the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France.
Today, China's first nuclear submarine has been decommissioned, but Huang Xuhua, who is more than 90 years old, is still in service. "From the very beginning of my involvement in the development of nuclear submarines, I knew it would be a lifelong undertaking."
At present, Academician Huang Xuhua has donated almost all the awards and prizes of more than 20 million yuan at all levels that he has won for the country's education, scientific research and science popularization.
Cui Kun, a 96-year-old academician: donated more than 10 million yuan, and a jacket was worn for 30 years
Professor Cui Kun, 96 years old of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert in metal materials. Over the years, he and his wife Professor Zhu Huinan have donated more than 10 million yuan to the university, which is almost all their life savings.
In July 2020, the old couple took out 4 million yuan to set up a "new student bursary", which subsidized 6,000 yuan per year to 133 new students with family financial difficulties. There was no ceremony for the whole donation, no photos were taken, and the old man specifically advised "no publicity." But the news still spread in the school, touching countless people.
Up to now, cui Kun and his wife have donated more than 10 million yuan, and more than 500 beneficiaries have been beneficiaries.
Cui Kun is the first batch of metal material professionals trained in New China. His research achievements have filled the domestic gap and reached the international advanced level. In 1997, Cui Kun was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, known as the "Iron and Steel Academician". In 2006, Cui Kun bid farewell to teaching and scientific research work, the 81-year-old learned the computer on his own, and spent 7 years typing out more than 2 million words of "The Composition, Organization and Structure of Steel", which is the first monograph in China to comprehensively and systematically introduce special steel.
Cui Kun and his wife have been living in the academician building allocated by the school, have not bought a house, and the furniture looks older. Cui Kun's jacket was even worn for 30 years. The old man said that the state has cultivated itself, which is not "donation" but "repayment". He forged himself like a special steel forged by a thousand hammers and served the country.
Wang Zhenyi, a 97-year-old academician: donated a million yuan bonus and gave up the patent to let patients eat life-saving drugs
In September 2020, Wang Zhenyi, a 96-year-old winner of the National Supreme Science and Technology Award, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and a tenured professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and its affiliated Ruijin Hospital, won the 2020 Future Science Award "Life Science Award". When asked how to distribute the prize money, he said that all the million yuan prize money was donated to the Poverty Alleviation Foundation. This is not the first time that the old gentleman has donated the prize money.
As early as 2010, Professor Wang Zhenyi won the country's highest science and technology award, and in the face of a huge prize of 5 million yuan, he did not hesitate to donate 4.5 million yuan to the Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and the remaining 500,000 yuan was distributed to the young people in the scientific research team.
Academician Wang Zhenyi studied the field of hematology, and he pioneered the leukemia induction differentiation therapy. In order to make patients afford to eat drugs for the treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia, he voluntarily gave up his patent application and did not use life-saving drugs for more than 30 years to earn a penny for individuals. In China, this box of life-saving drugs is only 290 yuan, and it is also included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement, while in foreign countries, the price of similar anti-cancer drugs is as high as more than 20,000 yuan.
Asked why he didn't apply for a patent to make money, he said calmly: "The education we have received, the education we have received in school, the education we have received in society, and the education of the Communist Party are all about doctors putting patients first, and they can't ask for extra money." ”
"Cloth Academician" Lu Yonggen: Donated more than 8.8 million yuan of savings, behind the generosity is unimaginable frugality
At 4:41 on August 12, 2019, Lu Yonggen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of South China Agricultural University, died at the age of 89 due to ineffective medical treatment. He was gone, but he left us with everything he could keep.
In March 2017, the 87-year-old academician Lu Yonggen went to the bank with the support of his wife Professor Xu Xuebin and transferred more than ten passbooks to the account of South China Agricultural University, and Lu Yonggen and his wife donated a total of 8809446.44 yuan, which is their life savings.
The school used this money to set up the "Lu Yonggen Xu Xuebin Education Fund" to reward poor students and outstanding young teachers. At that time, Lu Yonggen was already ill and hospitalized, and for this donation, he deliberately came from the hospital to the bank.
Lu Yonggen said: "The party has cultivated me, and returning my personal property to the state is to make a final contribution." ”
Where did more than 8.8 million yuan come from? This is the common savings of the husband and wife for decades, basically wages. Behind the generous donation of the Lu yonggens is unimaginable frugality.
After retirement, the couple traveled by bus and ate in the cafeteria. On weekdays, people can always see this old principal and academician holding a half-old lunch box, quietly queuing up with the students to eat.
The furnishings in the academician's home are still stuck in the 1980s: dilapidated wooden sofas, old-fashioned televisions; rusty iron frame beds, bamboo poles for hanging accounts, one end tied with ropes, one end fixed to the wall with nails; several chairs still in use, tied with wire and tied...
Academician Qian Qihu: Donated 16 million yuan in prize money to support poor students for more than 30 years
Qian Qihu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a well-known expert in protection engineering and the founder of modern protection engineering theory in China, and has made outstanding contributions to the construction and development of China's protection engineering in various periods. While making outstanding contributions in the field of protection engineering, Academician Qian Qihu has also made silent contributions in the field of public welfare and charity, supporting the children of martyrs and poor students for more than 30 years.
In 2019, Academician Qian Qihu, who won the 2018 National Supreme Science and Technology Award, took the initiative to donate all the 8 million yuan of the prize money awarded this time and set up a scholarship fund in Kunshan to fund more children from poor families with excellent character and learning, so that they can go to school and study well.
He said: "If a person pursues personal fame and fortune, the focus is always on the direction of personal happiness; if a person establishes values based on the country, then the concern is the country, the nation and the people." ”
In February 2020, Qian Qihu also donated 6.5 million yuan to Wuhan in two installments. It is understood that after Qian Qihu won the country's highest science and technology award in 2019, Jiangsu Province gave a supporting reward of 8 million yuan. He donated 1 million yuan to set up the QianQihu Scholarship to reward young researchers; then donated 500,000 yuan to his alma mater, Shanghai Middle School. The 6.5 million yuan donated to Wuhan was the last part of the prize.
Academician Liu Yongtan: Donated 8 million yuan to the highest technology award to create more national heavy weapons
"As an ordinary teacher and scientific and technological worker, I was able to win the country's highest science and technology award, and this honor not only belongs to me personally, but also belongs to my team and belongs to all the patriotic and dedicated intellectuals in this great era." On August 3, 2020, Professor Liu Yongtan of Harbin Institute of Technology, winner of the National Supreme Science and Technology Award, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Harbin Institute of Technology, donated all the 8 million yuan of the national highest science and technology award to set up the Yongrui Fund for the cultivation of talents in electronics and information disciplines in the school.
"How far the radar looks, how far can national defense and security be." Such a radar is already being developed by other countries, and China must not be left behind, and this is what I want to do. Academician Liu Yongtan has been committed to China's coastal defense science and technology for 40 years, breaking the monopoly of foreign technology, successfully developing China's first new system radar for sea exploration, creating a well-known "radar iron army", and creating a "coastal defense Great Wall" for China's sea frontier.
Academician Liu Yongtan came to Harbin Institute of Technology in 1953 to study, and later stayed on to teach. "The state, society and the school have given me so much honor. My personal growth and development are inseparable from the long-term cultivation of the party and the state, and the education and support of the school. He said that the establishment of the Yongrui Fund aims to help the school cultivate more outstanding talents and create more important tools for the country.
Liu Jin, a professor at Sichuan University: Donating 100 million yuan in incentive funds, this money is wasteful for families
On September 27 this year, Professor Liu Jin, director of the Anesthesia Surgery Center of West China Hospital of Sichuan University, donated 100 million yuan to the hospital to set up a special fund for training, which is used to motivate residents, bring teachers, and improve the clinical capacity of residents, which is also the first special training and development fund set up by individual donations in China.
As a well-known clinical anesthesiologist in China, Professor Liu Jin has safely and effectively completed nearly 20,000 cases of anesthesia, and led the team to devote himself to anesthesia-related research. The two new anesthesia drugs developed by his team, "new skeletal muscle relaxation drugs" and "ultra-long-acting local anesthetics", were transformed last year. According to the incentive policy of the transformation of scientific research achievements in West China Hospital, "Nine Articles of West China", Professor Liu Jin personally received 100 million yuan of incentive funds.
Professor Liu Jin said that I am 65 years old this year, to retire, some people will say that 100 million yuan is not a small amount, for a family is a lot of wealth, but my family and I believe that this money for our family to live a more comfortable retirement life, is a waste, and donated to the resident standardized training of the cause, more social significance, more reflect the value of our lives.
Wang Zelin, a 78-year-old professor in Henan: donated 82.08 million yuan and lived in an old building with a simple life
At the beginning of 2020, Wang Zelin, a retired professor at Henan Agricultural University, donated 82.08 million yuan to the school, which attracted widespread attention. The entire donation was used to build a high-level biosafety protection level III laboratory (P3 laboratory).
In 1984, Wang Zelin served in the Department of Animal Husbandry and Medicine of Henan Agricultural University, and later became the director of the Institute of Avian Diseases of Henan Agricultural University. In the past 35 years, Wang Zelin's achievements are obvious to all: 3 patents, 12 new drug certificates, presided over the creation of a major avian disease virus germplasm resource bank, and established a research and development platform for concentrated inactivation of joint seedlings, and completely overcome a variety of major avian disease epidemic prevention problems such as new high-efficiency chicken Newcastle disease and infectious bursal disease.
According to media reports, Wang Zelin and the Avian Disease Research Institute he founded have accumulated nearly 100 million yuan in achievement transformation fees.
Despite this, Wang Zelin himself is unusually simple, not only living in the old building built decades ago, but also often described as "cutting the door" in life, such as walking without taking a car, and never calling a taxi if he can take a bus.
For the "naked donation" of nearly 100 million yuan of scientific research transformation funds, Wang Zelin's reason is very simple: "I am old, but there must be a successor to the scientific research cause, and this money is only valuable if it is used where it is more needed." ”
Transferred from: Yangtze River Daily
Source: People's Daily client Hubei Channel