The fall of a top scientist: why the transformation of anti-haze technology hides a "deadly trap".
More than a year ago, on March 18, 2016, 300 energy experts from across the country gathered in Jinan to validate the core technology of a 10 billion dollar local environmental project. Unbeknownst to them, Fu Lin, the chief expert of this program, was criminally detained during the first two days of the demonstration.
Coal is China's main source of energy consumption, consumption is huge, of which 15% is used for winter heating in the north, a large number of coal to be burned into heat; and on the other hand, a large amount of heat in the waste - in the non-cogeneration power plant, a standard coal combustion of the heat generated by only 40% can be converted into electricity, the other 60% is cooled and discharged directly into the electricity. The other 60% is cooled and emitted directly into the atmosphere.
In 2013, Fu Lin's work (known as "centralized heating technology based on absorption heat transfer") won the second prize for national technological invention. Datong, Shanxi province, where the technology was first used, has turned from a city of severe haze into a northern city with the best air quality -- in 2015 and 2016, Datong had more than 300 days of good weather above the second level, according to Science and Technology Daily -- and the technology saves 678,000 tons of standard coal annually for Datong.
In June 2017, another of Fu Lin's important achievements was to be defended for the first prize of the National Technical Invention Award, but the application for bail was not approved by the court. "Fu Lin is not harmful to society, why can't he be released on bail pending trial?" Ni Weidou academician is very incomprehensible, especially after the country has repeatedly issued policies to encourage scientific and technological innovation.
So what exactly did Fu Lin commit?
The cause was a whistle-blowing letter written to the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate, reporting him for huge embezzlement.On March 17, 2016, the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Haidian District Procuratorate took criminal detention measures against Fu Lin.On April 1, 2016 Fu Lin was formally arrested.On May 19, 2017, the Haidian Procuratorate's Public Prosecution Office formally indicted Fu Lin, according to the indictment Fu Lin has two charges, one charge is embezzlement resulting in the loss of more than 2.2 million yuan of scientific research funds, and the other charge is the misappropriation of public funds 4.39 million yuan.
All the professors like Fu Lin who are engaged in the transformation of scientific research results are almost always faced with a "suspicion of identity" - both as a national public official, but also through the transformation of scientific research results to make money, all in one and two, it is easy to The first is to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're getting into. Fu Lin was reported corruption is this logic, two years before the impact of the "Zhejiang University Chu Jian case" is also this logic. "We are here in the university research results of the efficiency of the transformation of American universities is far worse than," said Professor Zhou Qiren of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University in an interview, the country has issued a large number of policies to encourage the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the past few years, but there is no clear statement in some of the key details, as well as the institutional arrangements.
Figure 1: In August 2014, Fu Lin attended an international academic conference in Sweden?
The tech star in trouble
On March 16, 2016, Fu Lin's schedule was as full as usual, and he arrived at the office to work after breakfast.
Unlike usual, he brought his luggage for the business trip and prepared to go to Jinan in the afternoon. The next day he had two important things to do, one is to participate in the technical appraisal meeting organized by the China Energy Conservation Association, and the other is to report to the Jinan municipal party committee leadership team. Jinan City, invested 10 billion yuan of major projects "outside the heat into the economy" has just begun construction, Fu Lin is the chief expert, his leadership of the Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Planning and Design Institute Co. ") Energy Institute is the planning and technical support side of the project.
The first afternoon, Fu Lin received a call from the Discipline Inspection Commission of Tsinghua University, asking him to go to the Haidian District Procuratorate in Beijing on March 16 to explain the situation -- he was again reported for embezzlement. By 9 a.m., Fu Lin had already arrived at the Haidian District Procuratorate with his luggage. Judging by this behavior, he still seemed to be thinking about his business trip, and did not anticipate what would happen behind him.
At 10 a.m., Fu Lin's wife, Qu Yan, received a call from the Haidian Procuratorate asking her to deliver some information.
At 11:00 a.m., when Qu Yan arrived at the prosecutor's office to deliver the materials, she heard Fu Lin in the next room explaining loudly and angrily. She recalled that two years ago, someone threatened to "send Fu Lin to jail for more than 10 years" and was a bit worried. But she is still confident that if Fu Lin explains the problem clearly, he will be able to come back soon.
This is not the first time Fu Lin was reported - in October 2015, Tsinghua University Discipline Inspection Commission also received a similar letter, but the Tsinghua Discipline Inspection Commission, the Planning Institute of Lin after investigation, that there is no problem. So Qu Yan thought it had all been made clear before and could be made clear this time.
But what she didn't expect was that Fu Lin was soon put in a detention center and his voice was never heard again.
The Chinese propaganda film shown at the 2015 Paris climate conference devoted 30 seconds to this original Chinese technology, which won the first prize for science and technology in Beijing in 2016 and was recommended for the first prize for national technological invention in 2017 - but Fu Lin had lost his freedom. The bail pending trial was not approved by the judiciary, and Fu Lin missed the defense meeting and had no chance with the award.
In 2005, Fu Lin was inspired by the technology of waste heat recovery when he was doing heating planning for Jinan. This technology requires the development of some very important equipment, later named "absorption heat pump". Fu Lin first found the Tsinghua Tongfang subordinate Tongfang Kawasaki, which is a company that can produce lithium bromide absorption refrigeration equipment, hoping that it will become a platform for the transformation of the scientific research results, but to no avail. Later, Fu Lin looked for Jiangsu Shuangliang, Yuanda air-conditioning and other lithium bromide absorption refrigeration equipment companies, no one cared about him. At that time, Fu Lin was only a young associate professor, the industry's no-name.
When Fu Lin said he decided to do it himself in 2006, Zhang Shigang didn't quite believe it, "Neither money nor people, how to do it?"
In order to develop this technology, the first thing Fu Lin did was to persuade his family, in the second half of 2006, set up the Beijing Huaneng Ruitong Technology Development Co.
"The establishment of this company is no way out of the way," Zhang Shigang said, one of the outside companies are not willing to invest, and the second is the scope of the energy institute's business is only planning and design, there is no research and development of equipment qualifications. In addition, the research and development of this equipment requires more complex talents, specializing in the need for thermal engineering, mechanical, electrical and other multi-disciplinary joint, the academic level of both professors and less educated design, drafting, commissioning, installation and construction of technicians, while the latter can not be placed in the Energy Institute, can only establish a company as a platform to retain people.
Shortly after the company's establishment, the opportunity came. 2007, Fu Lin happened to see the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission call for scientific research projects, he was excited to call Zhang Shigang, so that he rushed to get the materials to apply for the subject. Eventually, the project was approved by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, with a funding of 8.74 million yuan. The amount of money was 8.74 million yuan. Fu Lin was prosecuted by the prosecutor's office for embezzlement of more than 2.2 million yuan, which came from this project.
Along with the 2.2 million yuan, there were four contracts signed by four organizations. It was these contracts that trapped Fu Lin, at least on the surface.
Dangerous contracts
September 2007, Fu Lin's team took the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission's subject, the subject of the group of member units, including Tsinghua University, the North China Electric Power University and other six units, the ring can be Ruitong as the equipment developer, but also one of the subject of the group's members of units. Tsinghua University belongs to the lead unit, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission will be unified research funds to the account of Tsinghua University, and then by the Tsinghua University according to the progress of the allocation to the members of the unit.
If it weren't for academician Jiang Yi, the project would likely have died. Jiang Yi is the only academician in the field of heating, renowned in the industry, he was on a business trip to Inner Mongolia, met an old friend, Chifeng Fulong Group, the former chairman of the board of directors of the Jing Shusen, talked about the technology of Fu Lin. Jing Shusen, also an industry veteran, was very interested and said he was willing to fund Fu Lin's team to complete the research and development.
In the end, Chifeng Fulong Group decided that its subordinate Chifeng Fulong Thermal Power Limited Liability Company (hereinafter referred to as "Fulong Thermal Power") to build a test project, and sponsor the cost of scientific research. So Fu Lin and his team were able to continue their research in Chifeng.
The unexpected appearance of Furong Thermal became a turning point for Fu Lin's project. Because the ring can Ruitong does not have a factory, can only design drawings, do local experiments, equipment production can only be entrusted to an outside company. Under the lead of academician Jiang Yi, Tongfang Kawasaki became the commissioned producer of equipment for Ruitong.
At this point, the funding for Fu Lin's group became two parts: one from the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission's longitudinal project funding (allocated to Tsinghua University's account in advance), and the other from the sponsorship of Fulong Thermal Power. According to the normal process, all the funds should be paid into the account of Tsinghua University and transferred to the member units of the project by Tsinghua University. However, for practical reasons, Fu Lin's group did not strictly follow this process. In the process of research and development equipment, Tsinghua University, Huaneng Ruitong, Fulong Thermal, Tongfang Kawasaki, four organizations signed four contracts, and these contracts make Fu Lin's story become very dramatic.
In August 2008, Fulong Thermal paid 3.8 million yuan to Huaneng Ruitong for research and development equipment. However, the contract signed by the two sides, the purpose of this payment is Fulong Thermal to purchase five units of equipment from Huaneng Ruitong, *** 4.2 million yuan (the final payment amount is 3.8 million yuan).
When it was the most intense moment of research and development, Zhang Shigang happened to see the contract was very surprised, clearly is the scientific research expenses sponsored by the Fullon Thermal Power, how the contract became the amount of money to buy equipment to the ring can Ruitong? The staff explained to Zhang Shigang, the other side of the financial bad to go to the account, so the sponsorship fee made up an other items. Zhang Shigang felt that this contract can be described as off-topic, seems to be inappropriate, but time constraints also passed.
Jing Shusen, former chairman of Chifeng Fulong Group, confirmed to reporters that the 3.8 million yuan was indeed to support the scientific research costs of Fu Lin's group. But at that time, FULONG heat is not a member unit of the group, can not put the money directly into the account of Tsinghua University, so into the ring can Ruitong. 2011, in the acceptance of the subject, FULONG heat is included in the subject of the member unit, and then the results of this achievement to win the second prize for national technological invention, FULONG heat is also one of the award-winning units. On the audited acceptance report of the subject, the 3.8 million yuan paid by Furong Thermal Power was clearly listed as research funding.
In October 2008, Huaneng Ruitong had to pay Tongfang Kawasaki for commissioned processing of equipment, a fee that generated two contracts.
One contract was a technical service contract signed directly between Tsinghua University and Tongfang Kawasaki, with an agreement to pay 3.27 million yuan to Tongfang Kawasaki. At the same time, Huaneng Ruitong and Tongfang Kawasaki signed another contract, the more detailed Product Entrusted Processing Contract, which stipulated that in addition to the fees paid directly by Tsinghua University, the remaining fees would be paid by Huaneng Ruitong.
The first contract had obvious flaws -- Tongfang Kawasaki was not a member of the project team, and Tsinghua should have first allocated the research funds to Huaneng Ruitong, which would then pay them to Tongfang Kawasaki. The contract is confusing, as it literally commissions Tsinghua University to produce the equipment, but in fact Tsinghua University is only administering the funds from the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission.
If you look at this confusing contract in conjunction with the first one, you should be able to find hidden problems. 2010, an employee of Huaneng Ruitong had a conflict with Fu Lin and threatened to report him on the basis of the above two contracts, which are literally like this: Tsinghua University paid Tongfang Kawasaki to make the equipment, and Huaneng Ruitong sold it to Furong Thermal, so there is a risk that he took the public's money to pay for it. So Fu Lin was suspected of profiting from public money. That report didn't end up happening, but the danger was there.
August 2010, Ruitong paid 1.05 million yuan into Tsinghua University's account. Zhang Shigang said, "At that time, Fu Lin didn't have much money in his research account at Tsinghua University, so he asked Huaneng Ruitong to support some funding." Tsinghua University's financial department's accounting vouchers show that the final flow of the 1.05 million Tsinghua University to collect a certain percentage of the management fee was allocated to Fu Lin's scientific research account for follow-up technology research.
Figure 2: In March 2009, Fu Lin's research group was appraised at the Chifeng test project, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. The second from left is Fu Lin?
Beijing Haidian District Procuratorate's indictment accuses Fu Lin of "selling five of the seven pieces of equipment developed by Tsinghua University using Beijing Municipal financial research funds to Chifeng Fulong Thermal Power Company, a member of the group, in the name of Beijing Huaneng Ruitong Company Limited under the control of an individual, which resulted in Huaneng Ruitong's profit of 3.8 million yuan. Before the case, the ring can Ruitong in the name of the prototype as well as the prototype equipment recovery to Tsinghua University to return 1.05 million, resulting in scientific research loss costs of more than 2.2 million."
The strange thing is that Huaneng Ruitong paid 1.05 million yuan into Tsinghua University's account, and the content of the contract happened to be equipment recycling, which just confirms the details of the first contract in which the equipment was sold to Fulong Thermal.
So why did it favor such a contract? Zhang Shigang said, Fu Lin after being threatened by that employee, they also feel that the previous contract signed by the lack of consideration, so sign this contract to make up for it, want to talk about the equipment a little more round, so there is a so-called equipment recovery money. "But this contract is written extremely ambiguous, does not say at all who manufactured the equipment, owned by whom, and therefore no clear recovery of whose equipment." Zhang Shigang said, but I did not expect the more you say the more confusing, the more you say the more you do not understand.
But Professor Zhu Yingxin, associate dean of Tsinghua University's School of Architecture, believes that there is nothing to say that this research funding for Fu Lin is not understandable. She introduced the university teacher's subject is divided into two kinds, one is the national institutions of the vertical subject, such as from the Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Natural Science Foundation and other applications; a horizontal subject, such as the enterprise commissioned the subject. The management of vertical projects is very strict, and there is a special auditing organization to do the audit at the end of the project. 2011 Fu Lin's project passed the audit and was successfully completed.
"Vertical research funds are meant to be spent on the subject, and should be spent according to the budget, and if there is a balance of funds, it should be recovered in accordance with state regulations." Prof. Zhu Yingxin asked rhetorically, "According to the logic of some people, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission allocated 3.27 million funds, and Huaneng Ruitong returned 1.05 million, and more than 2.2 million not returned is a loss. However, the total funding for this project from the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission was 8.74 million, and the other project members did not return the funds, are they all considered losses? If all 8.74 million returned to the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the equivalent of this subject should not have been the beginning of the project!"
Business of the jianghu
Jiangyin Municipal Public Security Bureau received a report of the content of the report, involving the Energy Institute and Fu Lin's another company Huaqing Thai alliance with Jiangsu Shuangliang Group Shanxi Branch of a cooperative project, the report is still based on a contract. It is understood that the Tsinghua Institute of Planning on this project has been a detailed investigation and combing, that the facts are clear, the Department of normal economic transactions between enterprises, there is no violation. Tsinghua Planning Institute appeared to the Jiangyin Municipal Public Security Bureau to make a statement, the matter was not settled.
August 2010, Fu Lin let Qu Yan registered Hua Qing Thai alliance, the legal representative is Qu Yan. The company was established in the context of Fu Lin's team is about to take Datong Tong Coal Group's shantytown renovation project heating renovation project. "The previous Huaneng Ruitong had no management at all to speak of, leading to a lot of mess. If we can take down the Datong project, people feel that there may be an opportunity and hope to have a clean platform to operate." Zhang Shigang said.
Since then, in the project of the transformation of scientific research results, the same Fu Lin team of the Energy Institute and Hua Qing Tai alliance have their own division of labor: the Energy Institute is mainly responsible for the planning and design of the project, while Hua Qing Tai alliance is mainly responsible for the design of the equipment, supervision of the manufacturing, commissioning and other related business.
The Datong project is the first time Fu Lin's technology has been used in reality, and many people were surprised to see that the heating area of the renovated neighborhood increased by 50% without increasing energy consumption. But more tempting is the market potential of this technology, Datong, Shanxi, this project is a small project, the contract amount has been hundreds of millions of dollars, and large-scale urban energy renovation projects are often tens of billions of dollars, tens of billions. Cooperation invitations come and go, the business world is smiling and beckoning to Lin.
Until the establishment of Huazhantai alliance, Fu Lin team for the first time to the company to find a "legal adviser" - a soon-to-be-graduated from the school of the law students, combat experience is not enough. When Fu Lin's technology began to go to market, someone once said of him: "Fu Lin is destined to be a flash in the pan. He's like a little doll walking down the road with a big gold brick in his arms, unaware of the danger himself."
After the success of the Datong project, the company that most aggressively approached Fu Lin for cooperation was a company called Jiangsu Shuangliang. "Its group executives went to Beijing several times to talk to academician Jiang Yi and Fu Lin, hoping for exclusive technical cooperation." Zhang Shigang said, but in the end the two sides did not talk.
It was followed by Shuangliang's Shanxi subsidiary to talk about project cooperation. Bianbing, who is in charge of business for Fu Lin's team, was impressed: "The Datong project was just put into operation in January 2011, and they came to us, saying that there were eight power plants in Shanxi to be transformed, urging us to hurry up and start doing research. We worked until the day of the Spring Festival holiday, the first three days of the year and start working again."
Fu Lin's "centralized heat supply technology based on absorption heat exchanger" involves two aspects in its application, one is the transformation of power plants, and the other is the transformation of urban heating systems. This kind of projects related to people's livelihood is very complex, first of all, there are professional organizations to do the feasibility study report, review and approval before the project, after the project to enter the commercial sector. Therefore, Shanxi Shuangliang and Fu Lin's team signed the first substantial contract, which is about the study part of the March 2011, Shanxi Shuangliang and the Energy Research Institute signed two contracts, one is the power plant renovation of the feasibility study contract, the other is the city heat system renovation of the feasibility study, as well as the preliminary design of the contract.
Zhang Shigang introduced, these two contracts are not filled in the amount of cooperation, because according to the relevant provisions of the state, research, design fees are calculated as a percentage of the total amount of the project, and at that time the research were not done, so there is no way to know the total amount of the project. He showed the contract to the reporter, the amount of cooperation is indeed blank.
"These two contracts in fact have not been implemented, because soon Shanxi Shuangliang and proposed to let us do the technical general contracting, that is, the study, equipment supervision, construction guidance, system commissioning and so on all packages to us, so again in the negotiation of a new technical general service contract." Bianbing said.
However, the problem is, Bianbing said that the two "did not execute the contract" did not go through the annulment process, which has become the biggest suspense in this story.
In the negotiation of the technical general contracting, because it involves equipment supervision, Hua Qingtai alliance appeared in this cooperation. April 18, 2011, Shanxi Shuangliang, the energy institute, Hua Qingtai alliance signed a tripartite agreement, the main content of Shanxi Shuangliang to pay the first advance payment of 6 million yuan of the total technical service contract in the study and design costs. The reason for this payment is that on April 25, 2011, the feasibility study reports of five power plants in Shanxi were to be sent to the State Electricity Regulatory Commission for review, and there are three other organizations involved in the feasibility study reports, such as the North China Electric Power Design Institute, which have to get the service fee before the review.
The tripartite agreement for Shanxi Shuangliang, party B for the Energy Institute and Huaqing Thai alliance, the agreement clearly agreed that "party A first advance payment of 6 million yuan under the technical turnkey agreement to pay to the Beijing Huaqing Thai alliance science and technology development Co.
"But in 2014, Jiangyin Municipal Public Security Bureau to investigate, reported information that we forced Shuangliang should hit the energy institute of 6 million, hit the account of Huaqing Thai alliance." Bianbing said. And the basis, that is, in March 2011 Shanxi Shuangliang and energy signed, did not execute the research contract. According to the proxy lawyer Zhou Ze, was included in the report information at the amount of this contract, but there is a handwritten 6 million yuan, and has not been confirmed by both sides of the seal. This is inconsistent with the energy retained by that blank at the amount of the contract.
Beijing prosecution indictment, alleging that Fu Lin used "as the director of the Energy Institute's position to facilitate, directing Shuangliang company will be payable to the Energy Institute of 6 million yuan paid to the Huaqing Thai alliance company, of which 4.39 million yuan was used by the Huaqing Thai alliance for the operation of the". And because the energy institute is a subordinate organization of the planning institute, the nature of its "universal ownership", so this action is also accused of "misappropriation of public funds". The prosecution's allegations are based on the same "unimplemented contract".
"This contract should go to the annulment process, but we do not have that awareness, no accident can not imagine that there will be a problem." Bianbing said.
A few days after the signing of the tripartite agreement, Shanxi Shuangliang's several projects through the review of the feasibility study. But soon, "Shanxi Shuangliang said, according to Shuangliang head office requirements, the equipment must be manufactured by them, can not let Huazhantai alliance to do." Bianbing introduced, equipment is the more profitable part of such projects. At this time, some of Shuangliang's projects have passed the review of the feasibility study, and got the preliminary drawings done by Huaqing Taimian. This change made Fu Lin was annoyed, cooperation finally broke up. These details also did not get the confirmation of Chen Xiqing.
After the cooperation with Shanxi Shuangliang was put on hold, Huaqing Taimian and Tsinghua Planning Institute negotiated on the aftermath. According to the "Memorandum on the implementation of the cooperation project of Shanxi Shuangliang" signed by the two sides, the destination of the 6 million is as follows: 1.61 million yuan for the payment to the North China Electric Power and other three feasibility study report preparation unit; more than 350,000 yuan for the payment of taxes; the remaining 4.03 million yuan by the Tsinghua Tsingtai alliance to pay the Energy Institute in batches.
In September 2011, Huaqing Thai League and Jingneng Group under the source of the company's deep joint venture established Huayuan Thai League, the source of the company's holding. "A lot of companies came to explore cooperation, and we chose to let the state-owned company take a controlling stake, with commerce and management effectively handed over to them." Qu Yan said.
In June 2014, Source Deep again listed its stake in Huayuan Taimeng for sale. "The business stuff was bothering Fu Lin and he didn't want to do it anymore, so we were ready to sell our shares as well." Qu Yan said at this time Shuangliang people appeared again, repeatedly looking for her and Fu Lin, asked to sell the company to Shuangliang. The reporter asked Shuangliang this executive asked whether there was a willingness to buy Fu Lin's company, he said, "it is not easy to talk about", but "the equity auction (site) is certainly not us".
Interestingly, Fu Lin really went to another company that had the most bidding interest - Yantai Binglun, so that they do not buy. But because the shares were sold in a public listing to the highest bidder, it was no longer a situation that Fu Lin could influence.
Barely a month after Yantai Binglun bid for Huayuan Taimeng's shares, an investigation by the Jiangyin Public Security Bureau came.
Suspicion of identity
After a string of shady contractual events, Fu Lin got two charges: embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds.
In this case, a **** appeared three affiliates of Fu Lin: Huaneng Ruitong, Huaqing Taimeng and Huayuan Taimeng. Some people have made the assumption that if Fu Lin's affiliates had been replaced by outside companies as platforms for his research and development and transformation of results, Fu Lin might not have gotten involved in the business world, and he wouldn't have faced the allegations that he did. But the problem was that no company was willing to support him.
"The first step in the transformation of scientific research results is not that companies are begging you to sell your patents, but often you have to go and ask for support from companies to make the initial product." Academician Jiang Yi said, many people think that the patent or idea sold to complete the transformation of scientific research results, but the reality is that there is still a long way from the patent to the product, and very few companies take the risk to pay the bill. If you can not get the support of enterprises, can only organize their own resources to do the development, organization of resources will inevitably have to open the company, and open the company there are a bunch of trouble - Fu Lin is so step by step into the commercial jungle.
Jiang Yi academician also has a similar helpless experience, so especially eager to have such a platform, "so that we can rest assured that the first step in the transformation of the first to do out". But this scientific research results into the most difficult first step, in the current university system, the social mechanism is a blank area.
Figure 3: Fu Lin participated in the academic seminar?
But even without a registered company, Fu Lin has long since crossed the river of commerce. Many teachers in China's university system are, in fact, small business owners. Fu Lin, for example, although he leads the Energy Institute is a scientific research institution, but it is also a company entity - it is a subsidiary of the Tsinghua Tongheng Planning Institute, the nature of the enterprise is owned by the whole people, the person in charge of the business license is Fu Lin, registered in 2004. But the institute doesn't give the energy institute registered capital, and it doesn't pay its employees. In fact, the energy institute is self-financing, and Fu Lin has to organize people like a boss to make money from research projects, otherwise he wouldn't be able to pay his researchers.
Back to the ring energy Ruitong. Zhang Shigang introduced, this company does not have business activities, mainly to accommodate the subject group engaged in equipment research and development staff, management is also very loose - initially by a friend of Fu Lin escrow, and later by an employee management, and even the company's official seal are placed in the hands of this employee. Such lax management has already laid the groundwork for Fu Lin's accident.
Zhang Shigang said that the ring can Ruitong in this subject a **** there are 12 patents, of which 9 is the ring can Ruitong and Tsinghua University **** there are patents, mainly in the planning aspect; the other 3 patents is the ring can Ruitong unique, is related to the structure of the equipment process, and Tsinghua has nothing to do with even with the individual Fu Lin has nothing to do with this is the ring can Ruitong high-paying air-conditioning from the Far East dug up the technical personnel It is made by highly paid technicians from Yuanda Air Conditioning. The research policy issued by the state clearly stipulates that whoever participates in the project owns the patents, and the three patents of Huaneng Ruitong have been examined by Tsinghua University at three levels and the Office of Achievement and Intellectual Property Rights has defined the ownership of the patents. So this allegation is not valid.
What kind of person is Fu Lin? Academician Jiang Yi told two stories. He and Fu Lin worked together on a project with a highly respected scientist, Fu Lin was the project leader, but halfway through the project, they found that the project could not be established. Later he and Fu Lin waited for a suitable opportunity, held a seminar to withdraw the project, and returned the remaining research funds, although it was very disgraceful to do so.
The second incident, a project in Guangzhou invited Fu Lin as a member of the panel of experts to participate in the debate, Fu Lin from the technical rationality that the project is not suitable for the launch of the results of the organizers on the spot to express their displeasure, not only do not pay the expert witness fee, even the return ticket is not given to buy.
The craziest thing Fu Lin did was that project in Datong, Shanxi province, at the end of 2010. "Without that project, maybe our team would have fallen apart." Zhang Shigang said the second half of 2009 to the first half of 2010 was the most grueling year, and the energy institute was running out of paychecks.
Fu Lin happened to meet a Datong city leader at a conference who had a troublesome problem -- he couldn't solve the heating problem of the Tong Coal Group's shantytown renovation project for a variety of reasons, which had created a social conflict. And Fu Lin happened to have a solution. This leader is also half-believing, and finally and Fu Lin reached a very harsh oral agreement, this project successfully run before the retroactive signing of the contract. In effect, it was the equivalent of Datong City borrowing tens of millions of dollars to pay Fu Lin personally for the project, and if the project failed, Fu Lin personally had to pay the money back.
Before taking over the project, academician Jiang Yi had reminded Fu Lin to think clearly, "You'll go to jail if you don't get it right!" Fu Lin eventually took over the Datong project, Zhang Shigang said, Fu Lin is thinking "if you do not do a real project out of this technology will die". Wang Qinbo said, "Only a madman could do such a thing."
"Fu Lin's undergraduate science is related to power plants, and later with my doctoral studies is heating." Jiang Yi said Fu Lin succeeded because he bridged the supply and demand sides of heat supply.
Before he lost his freedom, Fu Lin was working on further bridging electricity and heat, or "thermoelectric synergy," which academician Jiang Yi considers an even more groundbreaking technology that "the world does not have. For example, to illustrate - there are a large number of wind power generation can not be online, the reason is that the grid capacity is limited, if the non-peak electricity consumption to blow a gale, issued by the electricity is no place to use can only be wasted. Not only wind power, nuclear power, photovoltaic power generation have the same waste situation. Can we make these electricity to be wasted to do work into heat, and then become a heat source for urban heating? This is the Fu Lin research thermoelectric synergy, this technology will save us more energy, reduce more emissions.
This important research stalled after Fu Lin's accident.
It seems that the policy issues still need to be refined, and it's important to give these scientists a completely relaxed environment.