Wang Zongming (first from the right in the back row) took a group photo with his teachers and classmates in front of the old veterinary hospital on campus. Photographed in 1984)
The open space in front of the Nutrition Building of Northeast Agricultural University was the place where the "Doctor’s Smoke Stall" was put. Taken in 2008.
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The open space in front of the Nutrition Building of Northeast Agricultural University was the place where the "Doctor’s Smoke Stall" was put. Taken in 2008.
Mr. Lu Xun said that there is no road in the world, and more people walk, so it becomes a road. And the formation of a road is bound to go through countless bumps. China’s reform and opening up is a road that no one has taken before. From blowing the clarion call of reform and opening up 30 years ago, a Socialism with Chinese characteristics road has been formed today. In this great process, we have crossed all kinds of gullies and broken through many barriers.
It may be an accident that happened 20 years ago, but it seems to be an accident, but it has become a classic memory because it has impacted the inertia of the old system. Because, it was a casual focus of "brain upside down", "useless reading", "business for all" and the difficulty of talent flow in that era, and it was an explosion after being suppressed for a long time. Now, we recall that event again and listen to its historical echo in meditation. We suddenly find that the explosion was actually a fuse in spring.
In the office of the Propaganda and United Front Work Department of Northeast Agricultural University, the reporter found a bound 1988 school history memorabilia. On September 12, 1988, it was recorded as follows: "The Institute held a horizontal symposium on science and education, a seminar and academic exchange meeting to revitalize the East Agricultural Science and Technology, and solemnly celebrated the opening ceremony of its 40th anniversary … 4,000 alumni from all over the country participated in the celebration."
After nearly 20 years, the details of that grand celebration have long been forgotten in many people’s memories, but an "accident" that happened in this celebration became a sensational news due to the intervention of the media, and eventually became a microcosm of a period of history.
Event restoration
Teachers and students shared the memory of "Doctor’s Smoke Booth"
Qin Xiaomei still remembers what happened that morning 20 years ago. It was the 40th anniversary of Dongnong. People came and went on the avenue leading to the main building, and the teaching staff were busy receiving guests and alumni from all sides. In the open space in front of the nutrition building, there were many people around a desk that said "Dr. Smoke Booth". When I looked forward, it was Wang Zongming who set up the smoke booth. At that time, Qin Xiaomei was an experimenter in veterinary surgery, and Wang Zongming was a doctor in veterinary surgery. They both worked in a laboratory and were very familiar with each other. But this move by Wang Zongming really surprised Qin Xiaomei. "At that time, I was a little overwhelmed and didn’t understand what was going on. After thinking about it, Wang Zongming attracted everyone’s attention in his own way. In the current words, it is’ hype’. "
Professor Wang Hongbin, doctoral supervisor of veterinary surgery in Northeast Agricultural University, still remembers the situation at that time. He introduced that Wang Zongming did not set up a tobacco stall for a living. At that time, doctors, including masters, were still rare in society, and it was not a problem to find a job. The situation at that time was that before Wang Zongming graduated, Dongnong had stayed in school one after another for a number of master students, and the preparation was very tight. Although there is no hope of staying in school, universities or research institutions in the province like Bayi Agricultural University still need veterinary doctors. Wang Zongming contacted Southwest University for Nationalities himself and wanted to go back to his hometown of Sichuan. Because he was unable to solve the provincial expenses, he had stayed in school for a summer vacation. After the new semester freshmen entered school, they immediately faced the problem of accommodation, and Wang Zongming, who could not go home, was in a hurry. At that time, there were several graduate students who wanted to go out of the province who encountered the same problem as Wang Zongming, and setting up a cigarette stall was their trick. Wang Hongbin remembers that Wang Zongming’s tobacco stall was only set up for the whole morning, and cigarettes were also borrowed by students from the school store.
According to the archives of Northeast Agricultural University, on October 12, 1988, the report on graduation distribution of doctoral student Comrade Wang Zongming to the organization department of the provincial party committee in Northeast Agricultural College showed that the tobacco stall started from September 11 to 14. Most of the teachers and students who experienced this incident in those years had the impression that Wang Zongming wanted to use more leaders and journalists to create public opinion during the school celebration. The problem reflected by the doctor’s tobacco stall was not the difficulty of employment, but the difficulty of going out of the province.
Old news
Veterinary doctor has no choice but to set up a cigarette stall.
On September 15th, 1988, the New Evening News published a report written by Zhixin Wang, a senior reporter of the newspaper, entitled "It’s difficult to allocate a province in this province, but the veterinarian has no choice but to set up a cigarette stall".
The report said that on September 12, when nearly 3,000 alumni from all over the country gathered at Northeast Agricultural College to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Wang Zongming, the first doctor of veterinary surgery in China and a graduate of the college, drifted away from the celebration and set up a cigarette stand beside the street avenue in the school with a depressed face.
The report said that just as the young doctor was full of ambition and wanted to embark on a new journey of teaching and scientific research, the problem of distribution made him helpless. The largest veterinary scientific research unit in our province? ? Harbin Veterinary Research Institute can’t take him in because he doesn’t have this major. Northeast Agricultural College, as the alma mater, is unable to help its students because of its full establishment. Wang Zongming took advantage of his summer vacation to return to his hometown to visit his relatives, and contacted Southwest University for Nationalities, which could accept him. However, according to the regulations of our province, the outflow of doctoral students must pay training fees. Wang Zongming fell into extreme hardship.
At the end of the report, it is said that at present, there is little money left in 100 yuan brought by Wang Zongming when he returned to Kazakhstan to visit relatives. In order to make a living and raise money to go home, he had to buy some cigarettes and start his own business with the help of his classmates. Wang Zongming’s situation caused great repercussions in Dongnong campus. People call for creating conditions for the rational flow of talents. At that time, Wang Zongming told reporters with tears in his eyes: "I really can’t distribute it, so I have to change my profession or go back to my hometown to do something else."
Zhixin Wang, a retired senior reporter of New Evening News, recalled the scene at that time: that day was the 40th anniversary of Northeast Agricultural College, and after the interview in the morning, the school arranged for reporters to eat in a small guest house. On the way to the restaurant in twos and threes, Wang Zongming’s "Dr. Smoke Stand" caught Zhixin Wang’s attention. He thought it was a very interesting news clue. So, he ate a few mouthfuls in silence and hurried back to the tobacco stall to start an interview with Wang Zongming. Being sensitive in journalism for many years, Zhixin Wang realized that he had caught a very valuable piece of news.
After the news was published, it was reprinted by more than 10 domestic newspapers, such as China Education News, China Earthquake News, Excerpts, Workers Daily and Yangcheng Evening News. At that time, the doctor’s tobacco stall became an out-and-out social hot spot.
Classmate memory
China’s youngest veterinarian doctor.
Wang Hongbin, Wei Ping and Wang Zongming were admitted to the Department of Animal Medicine of Northeast Agricultural College in the same year to study for master’s degree. It was in 1983 that the Department of Animal Medicine recruited 9 graduate students from all over the country. "Wang Zongming is the youngest one." Wang Hongbin, a fellow student majoring in veterinary surgery with Wang Zongming, recalled that Wang Zongming was honest, introverted and not tall, but his mind was particularly smart. He is a native of Yingjing County, Sichuan Province. He went to primary school at the age of 5 and went to college at the age of 15 in his hometown of Sichuan. He graduated from Sichuan Agricultural College in July 1983 and was admitted to Northeast Agricultural College for postgraduate study in August. In September 1985, he studied for a doctoral degree in veterinary surgery one year ahead of schedule. He was only 24 years old when he graduated. At that time, Northeast Agricultural College was the first in China to receive the doctor’s degree in veterinary surgery, and the doctoral supervisor was the founder of veterinary surgery in China? ? Professor Wang Shichang.
In Wei Ping’s memory, Wang Zongming had a great personality and sometimes played volleyball with his classmates. Li Weizheng, then director of the editorial department of the school newspaper, still remembers that Wang Zongming once contributed a manuscript to the school newspaper, which was beautifully written and had a particularly strong scientific research ability. Just before Wang Zongming graduated, Li Weizheng wrote a piece of news and published it in the New Evening News on July 15th, 1988. The title was: Wang Zongming, the youngest veterinarian in China, pioneered the new technology of horse skull. The report said: "Wang Zongming, a 24-year-old doctoral student at Northeast Agricultural College, recently successfully implemented the caudal nucleus embedding technique for horses at home and abroad for the first time under the guidance of Professor Wang Shichang and Professor Wang Yunhe. "At the beginning of July, Wang Zongming’s excellent doctoral thesis on" Study on the Mechanism of He-Ne Laser Analgesia "was well received by experts and became one of the first researchers in the domestic veterinary field to test Ach (acetylcholine) in horse tissues by fluorescence method."
Wang Hongbin said that Wang Zongming went abroad in 1990 and now lives in Canada. He has lost contact with his classmates.
Multi-concern
The doctor went out of the province as he wished
The report "Veterinary Doctor Helplessly Setting up a Smoke Stall" not only caused widespread shock in the society, but also attracted the attention of senior leaders of the State Education Commission, the provincial party committee and the provincial government. Sun Weiben, then secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, gave instructions on Xinhua News Agency’s No.2734 domestic dynamic proof, and Vice Governor Huang Feng specially convened relevant responsible comrades to hold a meeting to study Wang Zongming’s graduation distribution. On October 13th, the leaders of Northeast Agricultural College made a special report to the leaders of the provincial party committee, the provincial education commission, the provincial personnel bureau, the provincial planning commission and other departments. Later, the leaders of Northeast Agricultural College and the relevant functional departments of the province talked with Wang Zongming many times to encourage him to stay in the province, but Wang Zongming’s request to return to Sichuan has never changed.
During this period, Chengdu Institute of Enzymology Engineering in Sichuan wrote that it agreed to accept Wang Zongming and pay the training fee. The director of the institute also personally came to Dongnong for an interview with Wang Zongming. Through contact, both Wang Zongming and his tutor believe that according to Wang Zongming’s major and specialty, he can give full play to his strengths by going to Southwest University for Nationalities. Prior to this, Professor Wang Shichang, the tutor, never gave up his contact with Southwest University for Nationalities. During his meeting in Beijing, he still held consultations with the leaders of the institute on the issue of training fees. With the active efforts of Professor Wang, the training fee was settled, and Southwest University for Nationalities finally remitted 3,000 yuan to Professor Wang. With the consent of the professional and technical cadres of the Provincial Personnel Bureau, Northeast Agricultural College went through the formalities of sending Wang Zongming to Southwest University for Nationalities on October 26th. At this point, the storm of doctors going out of the province came to an end. (Jingyang)
Editor: Wei Yu
