Cai Lei, male, born in May 1978 in Shangqiu, Henan Province, is a patient with acromegaly.
Chairman of Beijing Aiskang Medical Technology Company, former vice president of finance of Jingdong Group, president of the "Internet + Taxation" alliance, and promoter of China's electronic invoice.
On December 12, 2023, Cai Lei claimed to have made a breakthrough discovery in the etiology of tachyphylaxis.
On August 26, 2023, the topic of "Cai Lei, an acromegaly sufferer, said he has been preparing for his death" was on the hot search of many platforms, and this person, who has spent a huge amount of money on research and development of acromegaly medicines, and pushed forward the construction of experimental bases for acromegaly in the country, attracted widespread attention from the public as soon as he got out of the latest news.
The year 2023 has been the fourth year of Cai Lei's diagnosis of acromegaly, Cai Lei said, he has now almost lost the ability to take care of himself, "since last year I have been preparing for the aftermath, such as the establishment of charitable trusts, body donations, write a book, etc., the biggest wish, is that after I left the acromegaly of the drug R & D and clinical will still be accelerated forward. "
Early experience:
Cai Lei was born in Shangqiu, Henan Province, where his father was a soldier with a strict tutor. Because he always took the first place easily, some classmates called him "alien". In his second year of high school, Cai Lei and his peers "play like a child" to participate in the college entrance examination, the Central University of Finance and Economics.
But because he couldn't study physics, which he had always loved, Cai Lei fell into depression. Then, his father suffered from severe cirrhosis of the liver and came to Beijing to seek medical treatment. Cai Lei has no time to take care of himself, just with his mother and brother in front of his father's bed day and night to take care of, every 20 minutes to his father to turn over once. Because of his illness, his father was in a very bad mood and eventually passed away at the age of 47.
After graduating from the university in 1999, Cai Lei chose to work in the grassroots tax authorities. 2003, Cai Lei joined Samsung Group's China headquarters as a tax manager; since then, Cai Lei has served as a tax manager in Amway (China), Vanke Group, the group's chief tax accountant. 2011, Cai Lei realized that the Internet is the trend of the times. At that time, he had already served as a senior executive in the real estate company Vanke, he came to the entrepreneurial development of Jingdong.
In the second half of 2018, Cai Lei suddenly found that the muscles on his small arms began to jump continuously, at that time he thought it was caused by work tension and anxiety, coupled with the fast-paced working condition, although he had doubts but did not care. Half a year later, this symptom has not improved at all, but more and more intense, notice that something is wrong Cai Lei immediately to the hospital.
In September 2019, after a series of tests, Fan Dongsheng, director of the Department of Neurology at the Third Hospital of North Medicine, gave the final diagnosis - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also commonly known as acromegaly.