It's not hard to find that Ouyang Pingkai showed great ambition to learn knowledge for his family and country since he was a child. Never bow to fate, determined to move forward; Courageously shoulder heavy responsibilities and serve the country.
"Only Chu Youcai, thinking is very important". The Ouyang family in Xiangtan is a descendant of Ouyang Xiu, a literary giant, and enjoys a high reputation for respecting Confucianism and learning. 1945 August 16, the day after Japan announced its unconditional surrender, a small Ouyang family was born, so his parents named it "Pingkai". Influenced by his family studies, Ouyang Pingkai was brilliant from an early age. He entered school at the age of 4, and his grades have always been among the best, full of vigor and talent. No matter what activities, he is active and unwilling to lag behind.
However, a family of eight lived happily in 1957. When his father was beaten to the right, he died suddenly. Facing the storm of life, Ouyang Pingkai, a small sapling, stood upright in the storm. He and his brother, who are still in the second grade, chose to drop out of school to help their ailing mother make ends meet. Suffering is often the tempering of the strong. While doing short-term work, Ouyang Pingkai taught himself, and persevered from ignorance to self-reliance.
Rainbow always appears after a storm. After dropping out of school, Ouyang Pingkai finally returned to school. In junior high school and senior high school, he showed great talent in mathematics, physics and chemistry. 65438-0963, entered Tsinghua University with excellent results in Hunan College Entrance Examination, and studied chemical engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering. During his school years, his grades have been among the best, and he became the first developed member in his class, and initially demonstrated his organizational ability as a monitor and a study committee member.
"When this day comes, you will have to work hard on your heart, on your bones and muscles ..."1968 On the occasion of graduation, high flyers Ouyang Pingkai, Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua, was assigned as a worker in an enterprise in Shijiazhuang, Hebei. After 10 years of grassroots experience, his understanding of society and life has made a qualitative leap. 1978 entered Tsinghua for the second time and became one of the first batch of graduate students after the Cultural Revolution. His master thesis "Optimal Combination of Heat Exchanger Networks" won the first prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award, and he became the first graduate student of Tsinghua Chemical Engineering Department in that era with straight A's.
198 1 year, in order to solve the separation between husband and wife, Ouyang Pingkai left his alma mater and went to work in Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology (the predecessor of Nanjing University of Technology). Two years later, when he successfully passed the foreign language examination and prepared to study for a doctorate in chemical engineering abroad, the college and Academician Shi Jun found him: "The school wants to set up a biochemical engineering major, and talents in this field are extremely scarce, and it is ready to send you abroad to study biotechnology." Switching from chemical engineering to biochemistry is tantamount to quitting the "position" to be occupied and storming another "strategic highland" with unknown situation. Ouyang Pingkai hesitated, but he quickly dismissed his concerns: "I grew up under the care, education and training of the Party. The needs of the party and the country are my pursuit, and the needs of the school are my needs. It's not my character to shrink from difficulties. I dare to innovate to succeed. Educational science and technology workers have to do what others can't do, and I should unconditionally obey the arrangement of the organization. "
Ouyang Pingkai, 38, has a long way to go. He studied biotechnology at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Purdue University in the United States. In foreign countries, with perseverance and the conscience of a public scholar, he actively sought knowledge in the frontier interdisciplinary field of biochemistry, comprehensively understood its development context and grasped its latest development trend. His project "Study on Heat Transfer in Airlift Bioreactor" left a good impression on his tutor, Professor Moo Young. Although the tutor wanted him to stay, he did not hesitate to go home after further study.
"People should be spiritual." This is what Ouyang Pingkai always said. With this spirit, 1987, after he returned to China, he founded the first biochemistry major in China from scratch. This is an entrepreneurial journey that he and his colleagues will never forget. At that time, there was no biochemistry major in China, let alone tutors and talents in this field, and there was no experience to learn from. In addition, at that time, Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology was seriously short of funds, outdated laboratories and insufficient teachers. Facing the reality of poverty, Ouyang Pingkai, as a leader of the discipline, fully relies on team strength, exerts everyone's subjective initiative and overcomes many difficulties. He teaches in person with dozens of students, while insisting on working in the laboratory for more than 0/2 hours every day. Without textbooks, he organized colleagues to write them together; Without funds, he ran around looking for scientific research cooperation units. Finally, a decent biochemistry major was established in Nanjing Institute of Chemical Technology.
While establishing biochemistry and microbial pharmacy, Ouyang Pingkai also compared the development status of biochemistry at home and abroad, put forward the concept of "industrial biotechnology" with engineering and industrialization as the main direction, established the first industrial biotechnology research institute in China, and later developed into the national biochemical engineering technology research center, and developed 1 6- fructose diphosphate (EDP) for treating cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases and diabetes. This product is not only made in China. In the process of starting a business, Ouyang Pingkai was promoted to be the youngest associate professor at that time, a national "young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions" and a doctoral supervisor, and was elected as a "national model teacher", becoming the chief scientist of the national "973" project and an expert in the "863" field. The biological separation project he presided over won the national excellent course.
In the end, the blue light of the road will be fruitful and flourishing. He became a towering tree, a man who solved the mystery of life and a champion of life science. Once unknown, the biochemistry teaching and research section has now developed into a college with national key laboratories, national biochemical engineering technology research center, doctoral and master programs, and Post-Doctoral Research Center, with a per capita research funding of 500,000 yuan/year, and established key disciplines in Jiangsu Province and first-class national key disciplines. Determined to innovate "As long as we are brave in innovation, determined to reform and seize the opportunity, it is entirely possible to realize the extraordinary development of the school." 1994, Ouyang Pingkai said passionately after taking the leadership position of the former Institute of Chemical Technology. He took the lead in proposing that the development of a school should focus on two "money" (the frontier of disciplines and the funds for running a school) and two "talents" (teachers and financial resources for running a school). In the case that the higher authorities basically have no investment and the school funds are relatively tight, it is necessary to "make a difference."
No pains, no gains. After 10 years' painstaking efforts and 10 years' efforts, Ouyang Pingkai and his team members and teachers and students have finally built Nanjing University of Technology into a first-class university in Jiangsu Province: it has three academicians, four national chief scientists of the "973" project and two experts in the "863" field, a national engineering center and a national key laboratory, and is in charge of the national "973" project.
At the beginning of his tenure as principal, Ouyang Pingkai made a series of sparks of wisdom about generate. First of all, he abandoned the old concept of "what is important", broke through the "bottleneck" of school development, made bold decisions, and founded the new Jiangpu campus. During the period of 10, the barren mountain covering an area of more than 3,400 mu was built into an ecological, garden-like and digital campus with trees and flowers everywhere, which was praised as one of the "most beautiful campuses in Jiangsu Province".
Created a number of platforms to build nests and attract phoenix. Nanjing Science and Technology Plaza, which is located at 200,000 square meters of Dingjiaqiao, a new model road in the school, is used as a carrier to integrate scientific and technological resources, fully open to the society, and guide enterprises to set up technology centers in the school. Through the school's resource management to "store water", let a group of enterprises "raise fish" in the water, truly realize the "seamless connection" of innovative resources, avoid the disadvantage that "research and development achievements are difficult to transform in the boudoir", and achieve a win-win situation between schools and enterprises. At present, 50 domestic and foreign enterprises, such as Hercules, Jiangsu Zhong Dan Group, one of the top global chemical enterprises 100, have set up R&D centers in the building.
Building Southern University of Technology-Nanjing High-tech Zone "the carrier of leading talents at home and abroad". The joining of these leading talents will not only directly enrich and enhance the scientific research and teaching strength of South University of Technology, but also effectively enhance the core competitiveness of high-tech zone enterprises. At present, two batches of 17 leading talents have settled in. Most of them are "returnees", who come from international famous schools such as Harvard, Princeton and Purdue or national laboratories in developed countries such as the United States, Britain and Japan, and have independent intellectual property rights in the fields of biomedicine, new materials and advanced manufacturing.
Build a national university science park and guide teachers to innovate and start businesses. Form a scientific and technological innovation model of "education in laboratory" and "education in industrial park", realize the interaction between scientific research and scientific and technological industry, and organically combine breeding and breeding. The pattern of "one park, three districts, leading talents and cross-river development" has been awarded by the provincial university science park, and the national university science park has also successfully passed the certification.
In addition, Nangong University (Nanjing University of Technology changed its abbreviation from "Nangong University" to "Nangong University" on 20 14) has also strengthened cooperation with local governments and large enterprises. In 2008 alone, it successively signed strategic cooperation agreements with Wuxi Municipal People's Government, Lianyungang Municipal People's Government, Suqian Municipal People's Government, Shagang Group and Far East Group, or engaged professors in R&D with enterprises, or placed orders with enterprises. Relying on the first scientific and technological innovation association established by Southern University of Technology, we will integrate high-quality social resources and promote political and Industry-University-Research cooperation.
Open up green channels and encourage professors to set up discipline companies. According to the regulations of South University of Technology, 70% of the shares of scientific and technological achievements belong to the finisher, and 80% of the remaining funds belong to the teachers. This move mobilized the enthusiasm of scientific and technological personnel to transform their achievements, so on the platform of scientific and technological innovation of South University of Technology, discipline-based companies founded by professors sprang up like mushrooms after rain, achieving a win-win situation for all parties. After creating great economic and social benefits, a group of discipline-based companies have provided unparalleled help to improve the software and hardware conditions of school teaching. All the companies in the school have become the bases for South University students to practice and engage in the transformation from knowledge to practice. Teachers enrich the process and achievements of scientific research practice into the teaching content, attract more students to participate in scientific research practice, cultivate students' innovative thinking and improve their practical ability. In this way, the students of South University of Technology come into contact with the frontier of science earlier and are influenced by the environment of innovation, Excellence and entrepreneurship earlier.
The first-class scientific research team and the success of Industry-University-Research's transformation have also promoted the construction of a series of disciplines, laboratories and excellent courses. South University of Technology now has 1 national and provincial key disciplines, 2 national key discipline cultivation sites and 8 provincial key disciplines. State-level research platforms such as State Key Laboratory of Materials Chemical Engineering and National Biochemical Engineering Technology Center.
While paying attention to teaching, scientific research and social services, Ouyang Pingkai and his leading members deeply realized the importance of quality management. On the premise of the unification of institutionalized management and humanized management, the implementation of teaching rules and regulations has been effectively improved, and a closed-loop system of teaching quality monitoring has been formed, which has comprehensively promoted the improvement of teaching quality. The teaching quality management system of this school became the first university in Jiangsu Province to pass the ISO900 1 system certification, and won the "Jiangsu Quality Award" in 2007.
Talking about the extraordinary achievements made by Nanjing University of Technology after taking office as president, Ouyang Pingkai's expression is indifferent, but talking about the future development direction of the school and the ideas and plans for the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, Ouyang Pingkai is slightly excited: "Under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, it is the biggest task for me and all adults of South University of Technology to survive by quality, support by service, develop by contribution and strive to build a high-level university with characteristics." On February 30th, 2008, 65438, Ouyang Pingkai was elected as the chairman of the 7th Committee of Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology. In his speech, he said that together with the vice-chairmen and all members, he would unite and mobilize more than 3 million scientific and technological workers in the province, vigorously enhance the ability of independent innovation, vigorously popularize science and technology, vigorously strengthen decision-making consultation, vigorously carry forward fine traditions, and make great contributions to Jiangsu's scientific development.
As one of the representatives of the important disciplines in the cross field of "chemical engineering and biotechnology" in China, Ouyang Pingkai said: "As a new chairman and an old association for science and technology, I feel deeply responsible and have a glorious mission." He said that since he became the vice chairman of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology in 2004, he personally felt that scientific and technological groups played an increasingly prominent role in the whole economic and social development. Especially in the coming year of 2008, the work of the provincial association for science and technology is facing difficulties and developing innovatively. It has made great achievements in holding the annual meeting of young scientists, creating a series of high-end scientific and technological reports, improving the scientific quality of the whole people, implementing the project of prospering agriculture and enriching the people, participating in the fight against freezing rain and snow disasters, and supporting the reconstruction after the Wenchuan earthquake, which has great social impact.
Ouyang Pingkai said that Jiangsu is a big province in economy and science and technology, and science and technology and talents have always been the advantages supporting Jiangsu's development. At present, the contribution rate of scientific and technological progress in the province is close to 50%. Whether the advantages of science and technology and talents in Jiangsu can be further transformed into competitive advantages and development advantages is a major responsibility of the Association for Science and Technology. For a long time, Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology has a good foundation and has been in the first phalanx of the country. During his term of office, he will work hard with colleagues of the Provincial Association for Science and Technology and Qi Xin to successfully complete the blueprint drawn by this committee.
In 2009, China's economic development faced the most severe challenge since the new century. In this regard, Ouyang Pingkai said that Jiangsu Association for Science and Technology will give full play to its role as a bridge, build a platform for the province's scientific and technological workers to better participate in the construction of new Jiangsu, unite and lead the majority of scientific and technological workers, provide services for the scientific and democratic decision-making of the party and government, shoulder the social responsibility of popular science, and strive to make greater contributions to Jiangsu's "maintaining growth, expanding domestic demand and restructuring".