This year, four people, including Xue Guoxiong, deputy director and associate researcher of Niu Laboratory, were unwilling to endure the abuse of cattle and asked to be transferred because they had not achieved results for a long time.
In 1990 ~ 199 1, Niu Manjiang requested the Institute of Development to support it in prosecuting Kong Xianduo, but it was rejected by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Since 1990, Niu Manjiang has written to the Development Institute for many times, expressing his intention to sue Kong Xianduo and others in court, requesting the support of the Development Institute. Considering that this matter will have an impact at home and abroad, development needs a good international and domestic environment to stabilize research work. March 199 1, the institute of development proposed that academic differences between Niu himself and American scientists should be resolved by themselves, and the institute of development would not participate. On March 25th, the Bureau of International Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences sent a letter to the Development Institute, saying that academic differences should be resolved by themselves, and Chinese Academy of Sciences should not participate in it, and told Professor Niu.
199 1 The Biological Bureau of China Academy of Sciences invited domestic and foreign experts to make public comments on Niu Manjiang's work. Most experts think that it is of little significance to continue to support the work of cattle. Therefore, China Academy of Sciences stopped providing scientific research funds to Niu Manjiang according to procedures.
On June 5th, 199 1, the Institute of Development of China Academy of Sciences sent a letter to the International Cooperation Bureau of the Institute, introducing the situation of the cattle research group: 1, and the group lacked respect. China and the United States are not cooperating on an equal footing, but mainly with Professor Niu. So there was a phenomenon that the published papers were not marked on the list of participants ... Some young scientific and technological personnel felt that there was no future in Professor Niu's team and asked to be transferred from the team. Professor Niu Manjiang is now 78 years old and has a bad temper. He often refuses to listen to different opinions. Sometimes they reprimand and abuse the scientific and technical personnel in the group, and even the leaders of hospitals and research institutes. Rude language often hurts some people's self-esteem, regardless of occasions and occasions. Some scientific and technological personnel said angrily, "Why does our country spend 200,000 yuan a year to invite a foreign Chinese to take care of us and scold us?" . Someone in his group said, "We all waited on him, but we were scolded." . At present, some people who stay in the group are also superficial obedience, and there are many complaints behind them. For various reasons, one associate researcher, one senior experimenter, two research assistants and one technician left their posts. Professor Niu Manjiang once enrolled 10 graduate students, and then four of them dropped out of school ... Professor Niu personally wrote or talked with the researchers of the institute, asking them to cooperate with him, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement. The Institute of Development has repeatedly solicited the opinions of more than a dozen scientific and technical personnel from the vice-institute and asked about the possibility of cooperation with Professor Niu. Except for an associate researcher who provided some technical assistance conditionally, others said that they had no extra ability to cooperate with him. 2. The researchers who have worked with Mr. Niu reflect that Professor Niu is sometimes not scientific and calm about the data of research work and does not listen to the opinions of the scientific and technological personnel who cooperate with him. Internationally, there are different views on Mr. Niu's work ... The academic dispute between Professor Niu Manjiang and Kong Xianduo has also made the Rockefeller Foundation of the United States, which supports and finances the institute, criticized. At present, Professor Niu Manjiang is devoting his energy to asking a lawyer to file a lawsuit against Kong Xianduo and others. This matter involves not only the Institute of Development, but also the Academy of Sciences. ...
Development said, "Now it is actually that after Mr. Niu retired in the United States, the Academy of Sciences supported him to continue his research work in the Development Institute with the Dean's Fund." They pointed out: "With the deepening of scientific research system and management reform, all kinds of scientific research projects have to go through certain consultation, evaluation and demonstration procedures, and Mr. Niu's topic has not been evaluated and demonstrated by peer experts"; It is not good for them to continue to use administrative means to reluctantly retain scientific and technical personnel for the cattle research group; The funds of the institute are so tight that it is impossible to pay the cooperation fee of 200,000 yuan/year.
On June 25th, Vice President of China Academy of Sciences called Qian, Director of the Bureau of Life Science and Biotechnology (hereinafter referred to as the Bureau of Biology), Cheng Erjin, Deputy Director of the Bureau of International Cooperation, and Ma Cheng, Executive Deputy Director of the Institute, to study the above issues. They really want to follow the advice of the scientific and technical personnel of the cattle research group and no longer support cattle. However, in view of Niu's "crying", some senior leaders were deceived and expressed their support. They didn't want him to leave the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but decided to submit the report of the Development Institute mentioned above to the leaders of the State Science and Technology Commission.
When Professor Zou Chenglu knew this, he suggested a public review of Niu Manjiang's work in recent years to decide whether to continue to provide financial support. With the consent of Hu Qiheng, vice president in charge of international cooperation of China Academy of Sciences, and Niu, vice president in charge of biology, the Biological Bureau invited three domestic experts and three foreign experts (Teming, Jacobson and Niu, both recommended by Niu himself) to put forward written opinions on Niu's work. Therefore, most experts believe that it is of little significance to continue to support the work of scalpers. Therefore, Vice President Li Zhensheng personally talked with Niu and decided to stop providing scientific research funds to Niu according to the procedure. The cow is very dissatisfied and beats the table for others.
After stopping the research funding, the Academy of Sciences decided that the International Cooperation Bureau would continue to invite Niu Manjiang to China every year, and the Academy of Sciences would be responsible for his living and communication expenses such as accommodation, transportation and medical care.
After 1992, the Niu couple and their assistants wandered around many provinces and cities in China, engaged in a wide range of economic activities, and involved a huge amount of money. In economic activities, they use the name of China Academy of Sciences.
1June, 99214th, Mr. Niu and his wife visited Weihai Branch of Shandong University, and reached an agreement with Weihai Branch on the establishment and operation of Niu Marine Bioengineering Research Center. 1993 February 13, Shandong university decided to set up a research center for bovine marine bioengineering at Shandong university weihai campus. Later, they jointly established Niu Manjiang Marine Bioengineering Research and Development Co., Ltd. of Shandong University (Weihai).
1993101On October 28th, Niu wrote two inscriptions for Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, a product of China Edible Fungi Technology Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Zhong Jun Company"). One is "self-propelled ganoderma lucidum spore powder, the light of life science"; The other is: "He Zihang's ganoderma lucidum spore powder is exhibited in the United States to cultivate the panacea in the world, except for the incurable diseases in the world." Niu handed the above inscription to Pan Zihang, the legal representative of the company. 1994, the company used the inscription of cattle for publicity. 1in may, 995, Niu Manjiang sued Zhong Jun company for 5 million yuan on the grounds that its inscription infringed its copyright. 1September, 1997, the Beijing Higher People's Court awarded Zhong Jun Company 300,000 yuan as compensation.
1994 1, Niu et al. registered and established Niu Foundation, located atNo. 15, Garden House, Changping District, Beijing. "The relevant departments allocated 200 hectares of land to the Foundation free of charge." "The main business is to raise, use and manage funds, reward people who have made great contributions in the field of life sciences, promote international academic exchanges and carry out professional training. The registered capital is 6,543,800 yuan+0,000 yuan. "
1999 10 10 On October 5th, Niu went to Shenzhen to participate in the China International Hi-tech Fair, and was greeted by XXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXX and others.
In June 2000, Niu Manjiang came to Shenzhen Hi-Tech Fair again. The Niu Manjiang Foundation he founded signed an agreement with Shenzhen Hongda Company to establish Fengzhen Green Sea Co., Ltd. in Inner Mongolia, with an investment of 203 million yuan, which was carried out in three phases, with an initial investment of 98 million yuan. At the same time, Cattle Foundation and Shenzhen Luohu Hi-tech Entrepreneurship Center jointly invested to establish a cattle bioengineering incubation base. Total investment 1 100 million yuan, the first phase of the project is 200 million yuan.
On April 9, 2002, the groundbreaking ceremony of "Cattle Biotechnology Park" was held in Qingdao High-tech Zone. Relying on the laboratory led by Niu, the Science Park was invested by Hong Kong Investment Co., Ltd. and cooperated with Shandong Anna Technology Development Co., Ltd., with a total investment of 580 million yuan.
On May 6th+8th, 2004, Niu and his wife visited Baicheng City, Jilin Province. The municipal government cooperated with Niu Foundation to build "Baicheng High-tech Corn City", with more than 10 specific projects such as lysine, multi-protein transgenic corn and medicinal corn, among which the total investment of medicinal corn pharmaceutical base alone reached 900 million yuan.
From June 5th to February 6th, 2004, with the attention and strong support of Hebei, Shijiazhuang and Hi-tech Zone, "Niu Manjiang Laboratory" was officially put into operation.
In June, 2005, Li Yucheng, the governor of Henan Province, met Niu and decided to set up "Niu Henan Life Science Research Institute" on the basis of Henan Agricultural University. In the first half of 2006, the provincial finance arranged 8 million yuan to support the construction of the research institute.
In June 2005, Niu Manjiang's "two patented technologies of soybean protein corn and human albumin corn" were transferred to Xuchang Yuan Hua Biotechnology Co., Ltd. at a high price. According to the related report of Dahe Daily on June 5438+065438+1October 5, 2005, two patents of Niu Manjiang were "preliminarily evaluated by the relevant departments of Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a value of RMB 3 billion"; The total investment of "Soybean Protein Corn" project is 265.438+003 million yuan, the annual output value can reach 65.438+053 million yuan, the foreign exchange earned by export is 72 million yuan, and the profit and tax are 665.438+000 million yuan.
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The article "Cattle: Persistent Pursuit of Outstanding Contributions" published by Southern Weekend on February 7, 2006 stated that Niu was "employed as an honorary professor or consultant by 98 domestic academic research units or enterprises".
Niu Manjiang's "achievements" in these businesses include the treatment of cancer, diabetes, hemophilia, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, hypertension and stroke, the treatment of "white pollution", the improvement of dairy cows, and the development and popularization of soybean protein corn. Under the guidance of his "foreign gene theory", which is not recognized by the mainstream of international science.
In carrying out these economic activities, they claimed that Niu was "fully affirmed" by the leaders and was "fully affirmed" by the leaders.
In 2002, the Chinese Academy of Sciences was ordered to resume its annual subsidy of 200,000 yuan to Niu Manjiang.
According to "Cattle: Persistent Pursuit of Outstanding Contribution", "In July 2002, xxxxxxxXX met with Professor Niu and his wife, and Minister xXX and Vice Minister XX of XX Department attended the meeting. When xxxxxx knew that Professor Niu sometimes needed personal pension subsidies for his work, housing and laboratory expenses in China, he was very distressed. To this end, the xx department reached an understanding with the leaders of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2002, the Chinese Academy of Sciences will resume paying Professor Niu an annual allowance of 200,000 yuan for his work in China. "
In 2006, the Graduate School of China Academy of Sciences hired Niu as a doctoral supervisor.
According to Niu: Persistent Pursuit of Outstanding Contribution, "On June 29th, 2006, xxxxxxx met Professor Niu and his wife in Diaoyutai, Beijing, and made arrangements. The Ministry of Education and the Graduate School of China Academy of Sciences recruited 2-3 doctoral students for Professor Niu every year. Currently, I am applying for the establishment of a postdoctoral mobile station in Niu Manjiang. "
On August 24th, 2006, Southern Weekend published "Zou Chenglu and Two Academic Corruption Events 30 Years ago", which was the first time that domestic mass media publicly published an article criticizing cattle. Niu Manjiang used administrative power to put pressure on critics.
On August 24th, 2006, Southern Weekend published an article signed by Shi Xisheng-"Zou Chenglu and Two Academic Corruption Events 30 Years ago" (hereinafter referred to as "Zou Wen") to discuss how to curb academic corruption. The article involved criticism of cattle and administrative intervention in academics.
Niu asked Fu Zhonghua, an assistant, and the deputy director of the former development institute to come forward and put pressure on the editorial department of Southern Weekend and the author of Zou. Niu, Fu, Xu and others claimed that criticizing Niu was an attack on state leaders and a political slander. If the author does not apologize for Zou Xiangniu, he will be directly put into prison by the Public Security Bureau and spend the rest of his life in prison. If Southern Weekend doesn't publish an apology article, they will shut it down. They also claimed to have the support of the central leadership.
Although the academician made a three-point statement and took full responsibility for Zou's content ("1, Zou" is a chapter in Biography), the author of this book is "Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 2. The original text of Zou is dictated, and the narrator is entirely responsible for the content. 3. Zou can face history calmly. Every sentence related to this by Niu and Fu Zhonghua will be recorded, and will also face the media of history, science, the whole country and even the whole world. "), cattle and others still insist on finding trouble with the author. In addition to asking the police to summon the author, they threatened the author twice, on 27 October 2006/KLOC-0 and 28 September 2007.
Under pressure, Southern Weekend published an article entitled "Zheng Shiting"-"Cattle: Persistent Pursuit of Outstanding Contribution" on February 7th, 2006, defending cattle. There is also "Editor's Note" in front of the article: "Professor Niu Manjiang is a world-famous developmental biologist and a patriotic scientist who is still fresh in China's memory. In August this year, this newspaper published a manuscript involving Professor Niu. The editor in charge of this edition did not verify the relevant contents with Professor Niu, which had a negative impact on Professor Niu's reputation. Here, I sincerely apologize to Professor Niu and publish this article provided by the staff around Professor Niu. Please pay attention. " However, this paper fails to point out which words in Zou are wrong.
From mid-June, 5438 to February, 2006, the leaders of Chinese Academy of Sciences held a meeting to study the cattle problem, and sent people to tell the police station not to interfere with academic contention beyond their authority.
In April 2007, Rao Yi, President of Peking University Academy of Life Sciences, published an article evaluating Niu Manjiang and his work.
In the article "Zou Chenglu: Good People Are Good, Bad People Are Bad" published in the 2nd issue of Science and Culture Review in April, 2007, Professor Rao Yi made the following comments on cattle and their work: "Cattle" ... studied developmental biology academically, but it was not excellent ... His proposal of using RNA as inducer was proved wrong by history. It doesn't matter at first, but it shouldn't be called an important achievement ... When I was at Harvard, I heard Gilbert's colleague say that another delegation member said in 2006 that when an American delegation visited China, walter gilbert, a Nobel Prize winner and a professor at Harvard University, sharply criticized the so-called discovery of cattle. Strangely, however, Niu Manjiang does not discuss and demonstrate scientific facts in international scientific journals by doing more experiments or letting others do more experiments, but relies on administrative pressure and media operation at home, which makes people suspicious. Neither interviews with officials in China nor reports from China media can change scientific facts. For more than 30 years, cattle should produce scientific facts as long as they have funds. In the history of science, there are many examples that are not immediately understood and recognized by people, and all of them are based on scientific facts. "
On October 8th, 2007, Professor Niu passed away in Beijing.
The Institute of Genetics and Development of China Academy of Sciences established the funeral committee and Funeral Office after Professor Niu's death, and published an obituary.