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Born in 1893, Jin Baoshan went to Chiba Medical College and Tokyo Imperial University in Japan to study internal Medicine and research infectious diseases and biological products, and then went to Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in the United States, where he received his master’s degree. After returning to China, he represented China at several world health conferences and was one of the founders of the World Health Organization in 1947.
In the summer of 1927, Jin Baoshan was invited to form the Hangzhou Health Bureau and became its director, and in 1930, the Nanjing National Government established the Central Health Experimentation Division, of which he was the deputy director and was actually responsible for its work. The establishment of this division laid the foundation of modern medical and health science research career in China and cultivated a number of specialized talents. He also presided over the preparation and establishment of health and medical organizations and institutions in the west, and often went to the site personally to set up the work. In the 1940s, he served as the director of the National Government Health Department for seven years and did a lot of work to support the war effort. He was a skilled manager and participated in the formulation of a series of policies on medical and health care in China and the establishment of health prevention and research institutions.
In 1948, Jin Baoshan went to the United States to serve as the general medical advisor of the Children’s Emergency Fund of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. In 1951, he returned to China and served as the director of the technical office of the Ministry of Health, the director of the counselor’s office, and the director and professor of the Department of Health of Beijing Medical College.
In 1957, he was branded as a “rightist” because of his remarks. His remarks mainly included: “Invite more experts to participate in administrative leadership”, “At present, those in charge of health institutions and even operational institutions are all Party members, so experts are told to ‘go to administrative institutions’. “; “Now the director of the Ministry of Health is very weak, far worse than the Ministry of Health during the Kuomintang”; and so on.
On July 24 of that year, a meeting was held with more than 100 professors, lecturers and cadres of the administrative departments of Beijing Medical College, who criticized Jin Baoshan, saying that he “harbored evil intentions and had ulterior motives”. Wang Lihua, a lecturer in the Department of Health, said, “Jin Baoshan visited Shanxi and other places as a member of the CPPCC last year, and met many old colleagues in a certain place to talk to him about the purge, and Jin Baoshan came back and said to Wang in the department: the purge has been expanded and there is a mistake.”
In addition, Jin Baoshan’s remarks that “the political leadership of the Ministry of Health has been strengthened, but it has not been implemented in business” and his opposition to learning from the Soviet experience and teaching were also criticized by the participants for reversing black and white. Some participants also called him “anti-Party and anti-socialist”.
Naturally, Jin Baoshan could not escape from his fate. After being branded as a “rightist”, he was put into a “cattle shed” during the Cultural Revolution, where he was criticized during the day, reformed through labor, and studied, and was physically and mentally devastated.
After twenty years, Jin Baoshan passed away in 1984, having wasted a great deal of Time. Perhaps the moment he was branded as a “rightist” for comparing the differences between the Ministry of Health under the national government and the Chinese Communist Party, he realized that his choice was a big mistake. But it was too late to regret.
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