"Zhou Li - Paul's": raise the state son of the road, is to teach the six arts: one said five rituals, two said six music, three said five shooting, four said five harness, five said six books, six said nine numbers.
Has always been, the ancient world pays great attention to talent training, the six arts is the most basic teaching, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the rise of the masses, each competing for supremacy, the Duke Huan of Qi to build the "Jixi Palace of Learning", which can be said to be China's earliest government-run institutions of higher education and academies of sciences.
December 7, 2015, a shocking news came out, instantly detonated the Internet.
Chinese-American scientist Gao Huajian, was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the twenty Chinese doctoral students he trained in the United States have returned to serve their country!
Who exactly is Gao Huajian? And why did he join the American nationality? Why bring back twenty doctoral talents for our country?
He has published more than 300 academic papers, of which ISI has been cited more than 18,600 times, which is the most cited person in the field of solid mechanics in the world within two decades. But when his country needed talent, Gao Huajian joined the U.S. citizenship and became an American.
Who is Gao Huajian?
Gao Huajian: a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a member of the U.S. Academy of Humanities and Sciences, a member of the German Academy of Sciences, and a lifelong professor at Brown University. Gao Huajian in the end is what kind of person, can let China, the United States and Germany compete for.
Gao Huajian, born in 1963 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, an ordinary family, his parents are not high-level intellectuals, but he is very smart, from a young age, amazing ability to learn, jumping grades, when his peers have just graduated from junior high school, Gao Huajian has begun to participate in the college entrance examination.
In 1978, at the age of 15, Gao Huajian entered Xi'an Jiaotong University with excellent grades, studying in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, engineering mechanics is not the same as engineering, which involves a multitude of mechanical disciplines and a wide range of engineering and technology (civil engineering, energy, aviation, huagong ......) fields, which means that the need to mastery of theoretical knowledge is very much.
The 15-year-old child prodigy chose this subject, naturally, caused the teacher's high attention, although only 15 years old, but his mind is more mature than his peers, he quickly adapted to the life inside the university, 4 years passed by in a flash, and in 1982 got the bachelor's degree in engineering.
He, like many outstanding graduates, chose to continue to study abroad for further education, his mentor helped him apply for many famous schools in the U.S. Gao Huajian's academic achievements, but also attracted the attention of the major U.S. colleges and universities, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford ......, have all passed his application for admission.
The reform and opening up of the wealth creation boom "chaotic flowers", but Gao Huajian focused on the scientific research. 1982, Gao Huajian graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and received a letter of acceptance from the Harvard University, and obtained the rare opportunity to study in the United States.
After arriving in the U.S., he continued to skip grades, earning a master's degree in just two years, and a doctorate in engineering sciences from Harvard in just four years.
After Gao Huajian graduated with his doctorate, his home country was eager for him to return to work there. The United States and Germany also extended an olive branch to him. They offered him a generous package and guaranteed substantial funding for his research projects.
In the end, Gao Huajian surprised everyone by choosing to join the U.S. citizenship, starting from Stanford University as an assistant professor. He continued his own path of research and scholarship.
Huajian Gao's research area includes three aspects: modeling and calculating the mechanism of micro and nano plastic deformation, the mechanical system of nano-biology, as well as the creation of supersonic and superelastic dynamic fracture mechanics.
Many people must have heard of nanotechnology, in the 20th century, scientists are still studying the micron, the 1990s, nanoscience and technology was born, after 1999, nanotechnology began to face the market, the annual turnover of up to 50 billion U.S. dollars.
Nanotechnology application prospects are very broad, countries have also formulated plans for the development of nanotechnology, Japan set up a nanomaterials research center, Germany established a nanotechnology research network, the United States of America will be nanotechnology as the core of the next industrial revolution, the United States in just four years has invested 497 million U.S. dollars for the development of nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology can be applied in all aspects, microelectronics, computer technology, medical, aviation, aerospace, environment, energy, agriculture ......, it can be said that the future world of science and technology, nanotechnology will occupy the mainstream, each country does not want to lag behind since the development of nanotechnology, Germany, the United States, Japan has always been ranked in the first line.
Nanotechnology has led to a technological revolution, and Gao Huajian made a breakthrough in nanotechnology, he studied the mechanism of micro-nano-plastic deformation, this achievement alone was cited by the world's 64 countries, 2,411 universities and scientific research institutions.
After being invited, Gao Huajian chose to stay in the U.S. after much deliberation and weighing his options. In order to better carry out his work, Gao joined the U.S. citizenship and became an assistant professor at Stanford University in 1988.
In the decades since he joined the U.S. citizenship, Gao Huajian has been elected academician in China, the U.S., and Germany, and he has published more than 300 academic papers, which have been cited more than 18,600 times, making him the first person in the field of solid mechanics in the world.
International Union of Pure and Applied Mechanics (IUPAPM) commented: His (Gao Huajian) research results have laid down and expanded the frontiers of modern mechanics research.
Why did Gao Huajian become an American citizen?
Hua-Jian Gao's research at the U.S. University was in the following areas: "Theoretical system of mechanics of nano-biostructures", "Simulation and calculation of micro and nano plastic deformation mechanisms", "Micro-mechanisms on the At that time, many people in China didn't even know what nano was. At that time, China was also unable to provide Gao with the experimental conditions he needed for his project.
On the other hand, the academic circles that study the most cutting-edge issues in physics are all in the United States, and if you're not in those circles, and you're dealing with the most cutting-edge scientists every day, you don't know how to choose your research topics.
If Gao Huajian had chosen to return to China, he might not have been able to do all of his own research and would have had to become an ordinary professor, which would have been a loss for the whole world and a loss for China.
In Gao's eyes, the U.S. was far superior to China in every way. And in terms of treatment of talent and opportunities for platforms, the future achievements of staying in the United States were much higher than returning to one's home country. Harvard University during the study, excellent teaching resources coupled with its own talent, so that the young Gao Huajian quickly in the scientific community at the time of a certain degree of fame and status, just 25 years old from the Harvard successfully graduated.
Gao Huajian's papers and insights convinced many of the giants of science and caused quite a stir in the scientific community.
What we didn't expect was that Gao Huajian, who had already achieved many awards and honors at such a young age, didn't choose to stop at Harvard. Perhaps it is adhering to the old ancestor's "sea of learning" spirit of learning, Harvard University after graduation, in 2001, Gao Huajian and resolutely chose to go to Germany to continue to study further, want to let themselves in the academic level higher.
After completing his studies in Germany, Gao Huajian really ended his more than 10-year career, returning to the United States to begin his scientific research, and at this time, he has been considered a great scientist in his own field of fame.
China, the United States, Germany, three countries are eager to bring this talent into their own bag, have opened the extremely exciting conditions. The United States was chosen.
When the news came out, a stone startled a thousand waves. The country was in an uproar, not only for the loss of an outstanding talent and feel sorry for their country, more of their own country can not stay similar to Gao Huajian such talent reflection. But in any case, the scientist from Chengdu, Sichuan province, ended up in the arms of the United States.
Gao was hired as a tenured professor at Brown University in the United States in 2008, just three years after taking a part-time position as an associate director at his alma mater, Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Since entering the 21st century, China has paid more attention to the development of high-tech fields, and China's science and technology sector has entered a new era and created new splendor. Jiaolong submerged bottom, aircraft carriers to the sea, the space station technology is mature, China's patent applications today, but also has long been far more than the United States, Japan, South Korea and other developed countries, China's scientific and technological development has made many proud achievements.
In our country many researchers *** with the efforts, now we no longer need to be subject to others, but can independently develop and design high-tech equipment, breaking the monopoly of the Western countries of scientific research, in the multiple difficulties and obstacles to break out of their own a road.
On December 7, 2015, Gao Huajian was officially elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" is China's highest academic title in science and technology, and scientists who have been elected academicians of the CAS have made great contributions to China's scientific development.
And the foreign academician that Gao Huajian holds is likewise a title that only foreigners who have made great contributions to China's scientific and technological development deserve. There are 91 foreign academicians in China as of the end of 2019, and a very small number of 22 deceased foreign academicians. Bill Gates has been honored with this title.
After Gao Huajian was honored with the title of foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, all those who thought he was betraying his country by joining the U.S. citizenship changed their views.
Another CAS academician, Zheng Nanning, who is also the principal of Gao's alma mater, had this to say about Gao: "Gao Huajian's schooling experience reflects a young man's active pursuit. He has firmly combined his interest and career, and through continuous hard work and struggle, he has finally achieved success. He is a role model for all young scholars and teachers to follow."
Huajian Gao was involved in the founding of the Center for Advanced Mechanics and Materials at Tsinghua University. He spends more than two months a year researching and working in China, and his various academic lectures and presentations have exceeded a hundred, and he also serves as a professor in some high-level universities in China to train more excellent researchers for his country.
Academician Gao Huajian actively promoted domestic scholars while conducting research in the United States and published more than one hundred and thirty papers in collaboration with domestic scientists***. A bridge was built between the two countries to promote cooperation in scientific research at home and abroad, which to some extent changed the backwardness of China's scientific research level at that time.
So academician Gao Huajian is in the United States, but in another way to serve the motherland.
Gao Huajian brought 20 doctoral talents to our country.
Professor Gao Huajian stood at the forefront of mechanics research when he was conducting research in the U.S. At the same time, more than 20 PhDs and postdocs studying in the U.S. at the time and conducting academic research were also y influenced by him, and his influence in this field was so great that the Chinese PhDs and postdocs trained by Prof. Gao in the U.S. were well aware of the need to work hard and innovate in order to serve the motherland in the future. Up to now, more than twenty PhDs and postdocs have returned to China, and seven of them*** have been awarded the National Distinguished Youth Foundation.
The development of China's aviation industry has also made a great contribution to the development of Professor Gao Huajian, although he is in the United States, but he is always thinking about the development of the motherland, time and again for the motherland to bring the national treasure technology, more time and again to send scientific and technological talent for the motherland, his contribution is immeasurable.
The National Foundation for Outstanding Young Scientists. This fund is specially set up by China to encourage overseas scholars to return to China to work. It encourages young scholars who already have achievements at the basic research level to freely choose their research direction. The aim is to train and create a number of outstanding academic leaders who are at the forefront of world science and technology.
This fund is awarded according to the research topic, and the maximum funding can be given to the project topic is 4 million yuan.In 2019, there were 3,159 project applications, only 296 were approved, the pass rate was less than 10%, and the total **** funding was one hundred and sixteen million two hundred and twenty thousand yuan. It can be seen that winning this award shows that the level of PhDs trained by Academician Gao Huajian is quite high. The contribution made by Academician Gao is undoubtedly enormous.
The launch of Tiangong 1 was to verify the docking technology, and on November 3, 2011, it docked successfully with Shenzhou 8, and on June 18, 2012, it docked successfully with Shenzhou 9. So far, China has mastered one of the key technologies for building a space station.
After returning to China, he has made great contributions to China's spaceflight as well as various aspects of scientific research. Dr. Wang Xiang, who made great contributions to the docking mission between Tiangong 1 and Shenzhou 8, is his favorite disciple.
Since 2003, the ratio of Chinese expatriates to returnees has been shrinking, and among the returnees, there are many elites.
Besides academics, the returnees also include a large number of business elites. In the 1990s, they brought advanced management experience and business models, and now they are bringing technology.
According to a survey released by the China and Globalization Think Tank, among the overseas students returning to China to start their own businesses, most of the entrepreneurial projects are focused on the country's strategic emerging industries. 59% of this group of returnees own personal patents, 66% have brought back technology from overseas, and the returnee technological talents of the last two years have been piling up in the fields of technology entrepreneurship, such as biopharmaceuticals, AI, new materials, and so on.
We have reason to believe that more and more talents will return to their home countries and make contributions.
We also have reason to believe that, like academician Gao Huajian, who had to join a foreign nationality to realize his ambitions because of the lack of experimental conditions at home, will soon cease to happen.
China's current scientific research environment is becoming more and more excellent, there is a large number of young people with a passion, they have a patriotic heart, they are not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of obstacles, just hope that by virtue of their own weak power, can contribute to the cause of scientific research for the motherland, to accelerate the development of China's scientific and technological progress. They go abroad to study, no longer out of yearning for Western countries, but simply want to learn their superior technology. After completing their studies, they will return to their home country and go to the front line of scientific research to serve their country.
Researchers will always be the treasure of a nation, and our country now has the ability to retain local talent, cultivate outstanding talent, and absorb and introduce outstanding researchers from other countries like Alexander. The young generation, they not only like the forefathers have the spirit of continuous investigation of scientific research, but also has a patriotic heart that is not inferior to the forefathers. The future belongs to a number of young people who are capable of hard work and have unlimited creativity. Based on this, China's future prospects for the development of science and technology will be brighter and more brilliant.