People's Daily Overseas Edition 2004-7- 16 Mayingshan, Ding Wei
Li Jianbao, a doctoral student in Tsinghua University and a professor in China, was the first batch of overseas students who were sent abroad to study after the reform and opening up in 1998, and also the first batch of overseas students who returned home after their studies. Two years ago, he responded to the call of the motherland and became the president of Qinghai University. On the vast western land, he contributed his own light and heat without regrets and practiced his motto all his life-
From Beijing to Xining, the gap is everywhere: the altitude rises from 50 meters to more than 2,200 meters, and the temperature drops from more than 30 degrees Celsius to 10 degrees Celsius. Looking around, Qilian Mountain and Kunlun Mountain are criss-crossing and continuous. Looking up, the top of the mountain was covered with snow and cold light was harsh. ...
"Gap creates potential energy and gap creates opportunities." One summer day two years ago, a doctor studying in Japan set foot on this magical plateau for the first time with passion and dreams. He is Li Jianbao, the 45-year-old president of Qinghai University and professor of Tsinghua University.
Peacock resolutely flew to the northwest.
At the beginning of 2002, Professor Li Jianbao of Tsinghua University, who was then the head of the expert group in the field of new materials of the "863 Program", led his research team to tackle key problems, and a very challenging choice was placed before him.
The leader of Tsinghua University talked to Li Jianbao: "The Qinghai Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government want us to appoint someone who can be the president of Qinghai University. Organizationally, I think you are more suitable. " And explained: "This is a kind of' flexible introduction'. The relationship between wages and household registration will not change, and the original teaching work and scientific research stalls will be kept for you. "
Going or not? From 1988, I got a doctor's degree in engineering from Tokyo University and returned to work in Tsinghua. From 14, Li Jianbao won the third China Youth Science and Technology Award, and became one of the youngest professors in China at that time in the same year. 1995 won the first batch of national science funds for outstanding young people, and 1997 won the China. 1998, director of the state key laboratory of new ceramics and fine technology; 1999, secretary general of Tsinghua University academic Committee. With his talent and diligence, Li Jianbao gradually established his academic position in the field of new materials.
People familiar with Li Jianbao knew from the beginning that he had to leave. As early as 1985, Li Jianbao, who had just obtained a master's degree in science from National Yamaguchi University, was faced with a difficult choice: either to study for a doctorate in science from Yamaguchi University without taking the test, or to apply for a doctorate in engineering from Tokyo University at the risk of failing the exam and losing the opportunity for further study. Li Jianbao chose the latter. In his recommendation letter to his tutor, he wrote: "I am an international student sent by the government of China. My motherland is still poor, and young people need to learn practical science and technology. I hope you can give me a chance to realize my experience of serving the country. " Three years later, Li Jianbao successfully obtained his doctorate, and several big Japanese companies invited him to join, but he refused: "My motherland is in a period of rapid economic development and needs a lot of talents. I should be at home when the motherland needs it. " The day after he got his doctorate certificate, he anxiously boarded the flight home.
"When the motherland needs it, I am here! It is the motto that I will never change in my life. " This is what Li Jianbao wrote in his diary the night before he left Japan.
Sitting in the principal's office of Qinghai University, looking back on life choices again and again, Li Jianbao said with emotion: "I was born in the rural area of Jiangxi Province, lost my father at the age of seven, and my mother dragged our four brothers and sisters by herself. It was the government that provided me with primary and secondary schools, and I went to college with the highest grant. It was also the country that sent me abroad to study for my master's degree and doctor's degree. The country spent hundreds of thousands of foreign exchange to help me go abroad, in order to make my studies successful and serve the country. Now, the development of the western region calls for "peacocks flying northwest" and the leap-forward development of education in the western region. Since everyone thinks that I have this possibility and this ability, then I have no choice but to turn back. "
Qing Da Ling Jin Zhan Yunzhi
Despite the mental preparation, the huge gap between the East and the West still shocked Li Jianbao, who just arrived in Qinghai.
As the only provincial key university, the total investment of Qinghai University for more than 40 years is only 1 100 million; There is not a decent laboratory in the whole school, and the physical experimental equipment purchased in the 1970 s has not been unpacked so far; Many teachers can't use computers or send emails, and none of them use multimedia to teach. Teachers and students are full of self-abandonment, and young teachers are eager to move away. ...
In the first three months, Li Jianbao said nothing. During the day, he visited and investigated everywhere; In the evening, I read a lot of books and materials about the western development, the historical situation of Qinghai and the management of higher education. He combined his understanding of the western development and the future talent demand in Qinghai with the development plan of Qinghai University, and gradually formed a complete set of school-running ideas.
Li Jianbao is moving forward. Starting with the reform of basic courses, he established 1 1 excellent basic courses such as mathematics, physics, foreign languages and computers, which greatly improved the teaching quality of undergraduates. He boldly transplanted Tsinghua's experience in running a school, set up a demonstration class of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, and selected 40 top students in the whole school to "start a new kitchen". Excellent students can enter Tsinghua University for postgraduate study without examination. As soon as this trick comes out, the light in the study room will light up at night.
"Let students learn something useful." This is Li Jianbao's consistent position. Adjust the school's professional settings, set up six undergraduate majors, such as scientific Japanese, tourism management, landscape architecture, food science and engineering, and cooperate with the Qinghai Provincial Department of Land and Resources to run schools by order.
"A university must have its own characteristic disciplines and brand majors." Li Jianbao integrated resources and established three master's programs, namely, crop genetics and breeding, animal nutrition and feed science, and grassland science, which changed the history of Qinghai University's enrollment without master's programs.
With his encouragement, teachers' enthusiasm for scientific research is unprecedented. In the past, Qinghai University spent less than 3 million yuan a year on scientific research projects. From 2002 to 2003, the whole school declared 65 scientific research projects, with a project fund of 29.528 million yuan. This year, the whole school applied for 83 scientific research projects, with a project funding of 86.553 million yuan, and also contracted two "863" projects for the first time.
"'will' come to have a future." Li Jianbao knows the importance of talents. He contacted around and sent 69 teachers and 10 students to Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University for master's and doctor's degrees, and 8 backbone teachers went to Japan for further study. He lobbied from all directions and recruited 10 doctors and masters from universities such as Tsinghua and Peking University. He also invited Junsan Ishii, a famous Japanese ceramic technology expert, to sit in the New Materials Laboratory of Qinghai University.
Under the leadership of Li Jianbao, Qinghai University is making an extraordinary leap forward: with the support of 80 million yuan of treasury bonds, six teaching and research buildings have sprung up. The annual investment is equivalent to the sum of the previous 40 years; The number of provincial key laboratories has increased from 2 to 7, and the construction of ministerial key laboratories has achieved zero breakthrough; The doctoral expert building with an investment of more than 6.5438+million yuan is about to break ground, and the teachers are safe and enterprising. ...
I am willing to be a Qinghai person all my life.
The Associate Professor Building 1 Building in the Family Area of Qinghai University is an apartment with a building area of less than 50 square meters, which is Li Jianbao's home in Qinghai. When he first arrived in Qinghai, the province prepared him a three-bedroom and one-bedroom house in the center of Xining. He refused: "I am single, and it is a waste to live in such a big house."
When I walked into Li Jianbao's home in Qinghai, I was greeted by some simple furniture and books piled up everywhere. In the dead of night, lying alone in a rocking chair watching the sky has become a great hobby of Li Jianbao.
Gradually, Li Jianbao's original white face was radiant with a faint "plateau red", and the fine crow's feet began to climb along the corner of his eyes, and the white hair on his temples could no longer be covered.
Gradually, Li Jianbao thought he was from Qinghai. On a business trip abroad, he always introduces himself like this: "Li Jianbao, a native of Qinghai." As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a representative of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress, he has repeatedly cheered for the talent strategy and higher education in Qinghai and the west. His eagerness and affection are like the master of Qinghai and the spokesman of the West. In order to reward him for his outstanding contributions, the Qinghai provincial government and Qinghai University gave him a living allowance of 50,000 yuan every year, but he did not put the money in his pocket, but donated it all to the school. He said: "Working for Qinghai University means working for yourself, and there is no reward."
Li Jianbao is an emotional person. He has shed tears many times since he arrived in Qinghai. Professor Tsinghua University's eyes went red when his support groups came and went. When the Ministry of Finance approved the special appropriation, his eyes filled with tears; When the old leaders and friends of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology came to visit him, his tears came down. Li Jianbao said: "Your support is not for me in Li Jianbao, but for the development of Qinghai and the western region, which is full of the national spirit of building the western region with one heart and one mind. Compared with this great feeling, my personal gains and losses are nothing. "