In the minds of the general public, when the national engineering academician is the top scientists, but in China now, research Maotai people can also run for engineering academician. Guizhou Maotai Group, an engineer who invented the “soy sauce” type of Maotai, was recently elected by the Guizhou provincial government as a candidate for membership in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a news that is an example of a “strong country with tobacco and alcohol”, which has led to mockery by netizens.
According to the Guizhou Science and Technology Association website recent news, 2021 Guizhou Province, the selection of candidates for the Chinese Academy of Engineering evaluation will be held on February 8 in the Provincial Science Association. After expert evaluation, Guizhou Province, the work of the leading group for the selection of academician candidates for validation, to be selected Ma Jianfeng, Zhou Qi, Wang Li, Zhang Shenglin 4 comrades 2021 Chinese Academy of Engineering, Guizhou Province candidates. Among them, Wang Li’s title is chief engineer and chief quality officer of Maotai Group, researching fermentation and light biotechnology.
In an interview with Radio Free Asia this Wednesday (17), Yang Shaozheng, a former professor of economics at Guizhou University, said that in a normal society in a certain industry, it is normal to have a member of the Academy of Engineering: “But in China, where the Communist Party leads everything, it is questionable whether recommending a member of the Academy of Engineering is in line with the basic selection procedure. Because they have a basic requirement to recommend award-winning talents, that is, his political ideology should meet the requirements and he must be loyal to the Communist Party.”
Professor Yang Shaozheng criticized the Communist Party for improper use of taxpayers’ money back then and was eventually fired from the university and had his health insurance and other benefits cancelled.
Wang Li, chief engineer of Maotai Group, was shortlisted as a candidate for the 2021 Chinese Academy of Engineering in Guizhou Province. (Web screenshot)
Wang Li is said to have invented the “soy sauce” type of Maotai wine, which has led to a huge increase in sales of the wine, bringing huge profits to Maotai Group and making Maotai wine stock the most expensive stock in China.
However, Chinese netizens are not happy with Wang Li’s recommendation to be a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Sina netizen @ZhengKeqiang wrote: “The gap between an academician of tobacco and wine and the Perception of the people is too big, forget it. @focusedwaiting said: “This does feel a little contrary to the original intention, it seems to be the force behind the role.” Another engineer message, as a quality practitioner, although in a different industry, but also considered this teacher’s half peer it, I can not help but ask …… sauce technology quality control, but also so difficult?
In China as long as you are willing to spend money what title you can get
Jiangsu network commentator Lu Jianrong told the station that as long as you are willing to spend money, you can get any title in China: “Let’s say a director can be bought with how much money, which one of China’s governors and mayors is not a ‘university graduate’, this kind of chaos has been very common in China, it is not strange to see. Chinese people now blindly worship money and power, as long as you have money and power, you are a god.”
According to the official website of Maotai Group, Wang Li has won a number of national, industry and Guizhou provincial awards, and in March 2019, the “Wang Li Skill Master Studio” named after her is the only national skill master studio for liquor tasting and blending in Guizhou province. The studio has trained a total of 5 national-level liquor judges, 20 Guizhou provincial-level liquor judges, 13 national-level sommeliers and 21 second-level sommeliers.
Netizen “Xiao Zhao” wrote in an article on Wednesday, some years ago there was a tobacco academician. Smoking can be out of the academician, why drinking can not be out of it? Selling Medicine …… can become an academician, while China’s first Nobel Prize winner in medicine, the discoverer of artemisinin – Ms. Tu Youyou, a scientist who has made such great contributions to the medical profession, has repeatedly failed to be selected.
Jiangsu rights activist Zhang Jianping told the station that in order to be honored in China, one must meet the requirements of the “party Culture,” such as: “Tu Youyou, who has won the Nobel Prize in science and medicine in mainland China since 1949, was opposed by many people in China because she was not a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, like Maotai wine these vulgar cultural things, because to this country to generate revenue, but has nothing to do with science.”
The central government requires that the first condition for academicians is political correctness
Guangzhou current affairs commentator Cai Shenkun believes that whether it is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, or the Academy of Engineering, the entry requirements are first of all politically correct: “Maotai wine has created huge economic benefits, but also to the poor places in Guizhou brought unimagined brand benefits, and for the Chinese stock market to become the ‘first stock ‘. In recent years, the academician of the Academy of Engineering said on the one hand that he wanted scientific and technological innovation, and on the other hand he put economic benefits in a particularly important reference position.”
Cai Shenkun said that Wang Li, chief engineer of Maotai Group, brought huge profits for Maotai wine, in line with the interests of the authorities, and was officially recommended as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as a matter of course. Another netizen left a message, the world has many ways of reward for effort. Maotai wine is good, so that the high profits of the market return can be. Once selected as a member of the Academy of Engineering, always feel lowered the public’s expectations of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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