Agricultural giant since 1983

Chapter 480 Academician
2007 is an odd-numbered year, and every odd-numbered year will be extremely lively in the academic circles, because the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering conduct academician co-election every two years, and this arrangement is usually carried out in odd-numbered years, because the academicians of the two academies have extremely important Therefore, all universities and research institutions will focus on this work at this time, especially those units that have candidates for co-option.

According to the process, the co-option work begins on January 1. At this time, candidates can be nominated through academicians or relevant academic groups alone, or through the above two channels at the same time. This process will continue until 1 It will end on March 4, and then proceed to the next stage, where the presidium of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will review the candidates and announce the list of valid candidates.

As in the past, after the announcement of this year’s candidate list, it immediately attracted the attention of relevant fields, and the news media also began to dig, wanting to see which experts and scholars worth reporting were selected this year, or those who should have been included in the list but were not. These have high reporting value.

Soon, media reporters found bright spots in the list of effective candidates. This year, there were actually two candidates from private enterprises. One was the chairman of Denghai Seed Industry and a corn breeding expert Li Denghai. The candidates from the Faculty of Science passed the deliberation; the other was Jiao Gaoliang, the chief scientist of Huinong Chemical Fertilizer and a leader in the domestic slow-release fertilizer field. He was shortlisted for the Department of Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the Academy of Engineering.

As soon as this result came out, public opinion immediately exploded. Although in the list of effective candidates for the Academy of Engineering announced this time, there are also representatives from enterprises, such as Li Licheng from China Southern Power Grid, and Wang Yupu from Daqing Oilfield. The units are all state-owned enterprises, and there are formal national research institutions within the enterprises, and their shortlisting is also in line with past practice.

But both Jiao Gaoliang and Li Denghai came from private enterprises. Now, can scientific researchers from private enterprises also participate in the co-option of academicians?So the phone calls of the Academy of Engineering, Huinong Chemical Fertilizer, and Denghai Seed Industry were all ringing, and reporters from major media wanted to interview them.

Newspapers also published their information one after another. Jiao Gaoliang's resume is very eye-catching. In the 80s, he received a doctorate from a prestigious university such as the University of California in the United States. A number of national key research works have effectively promoted the progress of these research projects. In the core field of slow-release fertilizers, he led China to catch up with Europe and the United States and reached the world-class level. He also won the national scientific and technological progress by virtue of this achievement. first prize.

It can be said that Jiao Gaoliang wants a diploma and grades. Compared with other candidates, his qualifications are only a little bit worse. He is only 45 years old this year, and he does look a little younger; but this is not a problem. Among the popular candidates, there are also many candidates in the prime of their forties, so the controversy caused by Jiao Gaoliang is slightly smaller. The focus of the debate is still the issue of his background in private enterprises.

Li Denghai's controversy is even greater. The first is the diploma. Jiao Gaoliang has a bachelor's degree from Central Plains University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, but his highest degree is only a junior high school; Afterwards, he started Denghai Seed Industry by himself, and basically never stayed in the system. A junior high school student outside the system was shortlisted for the selection list of academicians. No matter how you look at it, you feel awkward?
But their achievements are indeed outstanding. They won four national scientific awards alone. In the late 80s, they won the first prize of the National Spark Award for "Corn Breeding and Promotion". Grain Field Science and Technology Development” won the second prize of the National Spark Award. In 1992, it won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for “Breeding of New High-yield Corn Variety Yedan No. 220”. Education" won the first prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Originally, Yedan No. 12 was supposed to be the third prize, but because of Li Lei's support, Li Denghai got more abundant funds, more advanced equipment, and better fertilizers, so this variety is better than the original history. There are many, so the level of winning has also increased.

With these awards alone, he has fully met the hard threshold for academician co-option of "two second prizes for national scientific and technological progress or one first prize for national scientific and technological progress", and he has repeatedly broken national and global corn high-yield records. The planting range of improved corn varieties spreads all over the country, and the cumulative production has increased by hundreds of millions of tons. There are not many experts in the whole country who can match such a solid achievement. If such a person is not shortlisted, who can be shortlisted?

Jiao Gaoliang and Li Denghai were both a little uneasy seeing the noise in the media, so Li Lei took them out on vacation to relax, and at the same time told them the purpose of doing so. Before them, there had never been any scientific research work from a private enterprise. For those who can be elected as academicians of the two academies, Li Lei has wasted a lot of effort in doing so. For example, Li Denghai asked Yuan Lao to help nominate him.

"This selection is actually not just about the two of you. It has been almost 30 years since the reform and opening up, and the scale of private enterprises is getting bigger and bigger, but most of them still don't invest enough in research and development. It has not received enough attention! Many excellent scientists in Europe, America and Japan come from enterprises, and many of them are top experts who have won the Nobel Prize! Looking back at our country, private enterprises do not even have an academician. This situation is definitely unreasonable. So I want to break this convention and set up a few models.”

"In Dali, it is to promote the development of domestic scientific research in a healthier direction. In Xiaoli, we can also take this opportunity to recruit a group of talents for Huinong! Now many experts are reluctant to come to Huinong, because they feel that once they go to private enterprises, It is decoupled from the domestic mainstream scientific research community! If the two of you can be elected as academicians, then this rumor will be self-defeating. A better research environment, higher salary, and the same selection of academicians will definitely attract a large number of talents come over!"

"Even if you want to push, you can just push and highlight one person. If you have to have two, I think Lin Weimin is also suitable. He also has the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award? I am a junior high school student and I am going to participate in the selection of academicians." , isn't this a joke!" Li Denghai was still a little confused.

"Ms. Li, a diploma is a diploma, and ability is ability. This is not the same thing! Although you only have a junior high school diploma, as long as you are willing, which agricultural college in China does not welcome you to be a professor? Don't say anything else, I am now If you call President Fang of my alma mater, he will be able to fly over to invite you immediately! And over the years, your contribution to the cause of corn breeding in China is also real! Your election as an academician is not to add luster to you, but to Help the Academy of Engineering to establish its authority." This is the same as Yuan Lao back then, when he was not elected as an academician, everyone would never suspect that he was not capable enough, but would question whether there was a shady scene in the selection of academicians.

The two of them are also very clear that the selection of academicians is not just about grades. To borrow a metaphor from the Internet, scientists are actually divided into grades just like martial arts masters. Einstein and Newton are undoubtedly Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng. With such a Taishan Beidou, scientists of the Quanzhen Seven Sons and Jiangnan Seven Monsters next, ordinary people must know that Einstein and Newton are amazing. The strange level is enough.

However, there are dozens of academicians every two years, and there are far more than that many masters in the martial arts world who are at the level of the Jiangnan Seven Monsters. At this time, the choice of who or not is not only based on ability, but also a comprehensive comparison of various factors , the doorway here is complicated.

For example, Han Xiaoying from the Jiangnan Seven Monsters was selected together with a teacher from Hengshan. Both of them have similar levels of swordsmanship and internal strength, but there is no one behind the Jiangnan Seven Monsters. With Mount Heng and the support of the Five Sacred Sword Sect, her chances of being selected must be higher than Han Xiaoying's.

Then Ke Zhen'e also wanted to run for the election. He is stronger than Han Xiaoying and has a certain reputation in the industry. Logically speaking, he should be selected, but at this time Qiu Chuji jumped out and said that this guy offended me back then. As long as I, Qiu, are still alive One day of the martial arts conference, he can't even think about coming in!Oh well, the Quanzhen faction is too powerful to be offended, he said so, and the rest of the judges are not easy to offend him, at least not worth offending him for Ke Zhen'e, so they can only be dismissed.

In addition, there are some unspoken rules. For example, it is enough for a sect to have only one representative. If the master has already been shortlisted, and the disciples have not made breakthrough achievements, then they cannot enter; for example, Yue Buqun has already been listed in the martial arts conference, and Linghu Chong wants to enter. It's not realistic, because he knows swordsmanship like everyone else, and his cultivation is deeper than him, so there is no need to let him in again, unless he can learn Dugu Nine Swords from Feng Qingyang.

Another example is that there must be representatives from all regions, and no one region can dominate. For example, Songshan School's Nine-curved Sword Zhong Zhen and Qingcheng School's Changqingzi compete for a spot. How many sects can Yixi have?His strength may not be comparable to that of Jiuqujian Zhong Zhen, but these years the decline of Emei and the fall of the Tang Sect, the Shuzhong sect has no representatives in the martial arts conference, and one should be added due to emotion and reason, so Chang Qingzi Just squeezed out Zhong Zhen.

Jiao Gaoliang studied at Zhongyuan University as an undergraduate. Zhongyuan University still has a little influence in the academic world, and they have no other academicians to recommend recently, so Jiao Gaoliang's situation is a little better, and many work schools can help him. Do.

Li Denghai is no good in this aspect. He has been drifting outside the mainstream scientific circles and cannot find anyone to help him operate. At this time, Li Lei has to help. Therefore, Li Lei first asked Yuan Lao to help recommend Li Denghai to participate in the co-option of academicians. , and then took advantage of Huinong's long-term good relationship with various universities and research institutions to ask someone to help with this matter.

For so many years, Huinong has been donating funds and equipment to a large number of colleges and research institutions, and has set up scholarships for many colleges and universities. For these colleges and research institutions, Huinong is their God of Wealth Lord, they owe Huinong a lot of favors, now Huinong asks them for help, how dare they refuse?
And judging from the results, Jiao Gaoliang and Li Denghai were indeed qualified to be selected, so they passed the preliminary review and were included in the list of candidates.

But being shortlisted does not mean that you will be selected. The list announced now has nearly [-] valid candidates, but this time there will be less than [-] candidates, which is almost a ratio of one out of twelve. They think It is not easy to be elected smoothly.

Therefore, Li Lei still has to do a lot of work. While continuing to help with the operation, he also used public opinion to create momentum for them. Although Jiao Gaoliang and Li Denghai are scientific researchers of private enterprises, the laboratories they preside over have already been rated as state key laboratories. , This is also the result of Li Lei's vigorous promotion. It is completely reasonable for the head of the State Key Laboratory to participate in the selection of academicians, right?
Then continue to write articles to analyze their grades, highlight Li Denghai's grades, and then call out the names of Nan Yuan Bei Li. You see, Yuan Lao has been elected as an academician a long time ago. Why can't Mr. Li, who is as famous as him, not be elected? ?
At the end of June, the selection entered the next important stage. The Academy of Engineering announced the second round of screening lists. From the previous nearly 100 valid candidates, more than 100 candidates were selected, and two-thirds were eliminated in one go. , and among the remaining more than [-] candidates, only a quarter can be elected in the end, and Jiao Gaoliang and Li Denghai are still on the list.

Next is the publicity of candidate materials and the review of relevant departments. In October, the review will be held again, and the list of final candidates will be announced. After voting by all academicians, more than 30 academicians will be selected to join the Academy of Engineering. After one pass, Li Denghai and Jiao Gaoliang were finally elected.

After the news was announced, the public opinion circles had no objection to their election. The situation of these two people has been introduced very clearly. They are absolutely qualified to be elected. Some people even wrote articles specifically, saying that this is of great significance This is a good thing, which indicates that the scientific research capabilities of private enterprises have been enhanced, and the field of academic research is developing in a more open direction.

In the academic world, finally, as Li Lei expected, many truly capable researchers have begun to take Huinong's invitation seriously. Up a big step.

Inside Huinong, some people have also started to get excited. They used to think that if they were not in a university or a state-owned research institution, academicians must have nothing to do with me, but now that Teacher Li and Teacher Jiao have been elected, do I have a chance?
The typical examples here are He Zhanhai, who has made achievements in the field of animal breeding, and Lin Weimin, who has achieved breakthroughs in the field of soybean breeding.

(End of this chapter)