In 2020, the word "international students" can be said to have attracted a lot of attention, and issues related to international students have also triggered a lot of discussions.
In fact, in the early days of the founding of our country and the initial stage of scientific and technological development, there were many international students who took the initiative to give up the high salaries and superior environment abroad, brought cash, science and technology, and resolutely took their families with them. Return to the motherland. Many of them, because of their outstanding talents and excellent academic standards, want to return to China, even if they need to risk their lives.
Among them, the one we are most familiar with is the one that was evaluated by U.S. Navy Undersecretary Kimble as "No matter where he goes, he is worth the strength of 5 divisions. I would rather kill him in the United States than let him." He left" Qian Xuesen.
What does the word "motherland" mean to these people? Haizi said: "Everyone wants to extinguish the fire, but I hold this fire high alone. This fire is great, and it blooms and falls in the sacred motherland. Like all poets who use dreams as horses, I use this fire to save my life." The vast dark night of life."
This group of patriotic scholars who returned to China, represented by Qian Xuesen, are the ones who hold up the torch.
The Guangxi scholar Lin Yuan we are talking about today is one of this group of people.
Born to be a "student"
Lin Yuan was born in Guilin, a city with beautiful mountains and clear waters. Since childhood, she has shown amazing talent in science and engineering. Mathematics and physics problems that took others a whole day to solve could be found in her hands in less than ten minutes. From childhood to adulthood, Lin Yuan has been the "god of learning" in the eyes of her teachers and classmates.
And Lin Yuan did live up to her talent and the high expectations of her relatives and friends. In 1990, as the top science scholar in Guangxi Province, she was successfully admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China and officially embarked on a career in scientific research. the way.
Lin Yuan has been doing research at the University of Science and Technology of China for nearly 10 years. In the past 10 years, she was led by her mentor and achieved fruitful results in the semiconductor field. After graduation, she joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
At this time, if Lin Yuan gives up her academic pursuits and wants to live a stable life, she only needs to work step by step in the field she is most familiar with.
But Lin Yuan didn’t want this. After nearly ten years of research in related fields, Lin Yuan was deeply aware that in the field of electronic materials, there was still a terrible gap between China's technological level and that of the United States, which had developed decades in advance. This incident caused Lin Yuan to toss and turn at the time: on the one hand, she felt that she should not waste years of training from the country and her talents; on the other hand, if she chose to study abroad, she might face things she had never imagined before. Huge challenge.
However, for Lin Yuan, "challenge" has never been something to be feared, but something to conquer. In this way, with the determination to bring back advanced electronic technology to the country, this petite girl who spoke slowly and softly resolutely chose the more difficult road to study at the University of Houston in the United States.
After coming to the United States, Lin Yuan overcame various difficulties and successfully completed her studies. With amazing talent, she was quickly hired by the U.S. National Laboratory and continued her research in electronic materials and thin film microstructure engineering at the postdoctoral mobile station.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, electronic engineering has been a hot field no matter where it is in the world, and it has never worried about a bright future. Lin Yuan has perfected her expertise. In order to better verify her research results in practice, in 2006, Lin Yuan was hired as a senior engineer to work in the Intel Packaging and Testing Technology R&D Center, where she had the closest contact with The most advanced electronic technology in the world at the time.
At that time, Lin Yuan was young, talented and respected. Only in her thirties, she already holds 15 patented technologies in related fields and has published more than 50 related papers in world-renowned scientific research magazines such as "Science". Countless American scientific research institutions and related companies have extended olive branches to her, and the conditions are more attractive than the last.
Determined to return home
However, at this time, Lin Yuan faced the amazing temptation, but she never wavered in her original intention. In 2008, an earthquake accelerated Lin Yuan's return to China. After the Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan's local scientific research force suffered an almost devastating blow, especially in the field of electronic engineering. A large number of talents were buried under the rubble, resulting in related research being stagnant for a long time. in the state.
After learning about this situation, Lin Yuan stepped forward and resigned from all her positions in the United States. She packed her bags overnight and was about to return to her motherland.
Scientists like her can become a force that determines the direction of an era no matter where they are. The United States was very reluctant to let Lin Yuan return to China. They offered her a sky-high salary and the best position, but she was firmly rejected by Lin Yuan. Even after she returned to China, she did not choose the more prosperous first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Instead, she went straight to Sichuan and established her own laboratory at Sichuan University of Electronic Science and Technology.
While participating in national project research, she also insisted on personally participating in teaching courses from undergraduate to postgraduate students, and opened many basic courses for young students so that they can In the most difficult times, receive the most professional and best education. Lin Yuan's efforts have re-trained a group of talents in the field of electronic engineering for Sichuan, which has just experienced trauma and suffering, allowing people to recover physically and mentally from the suffering.
At the same time, Lin Yuan also took the lead in leading her laboratory to connect and cooperate with relevant factories and enterprises, using the advanced experience she learned in foreign companies to quickly open up an entire industrial chain. It has greatly promoted the realization of scientific research results and has become a powerful engine for local economic recovery.
Lin Yuan’s hard work has not been in vain. Soon, the new thin film growth technology she invented achieved breakthrough progress. This technology allows electronic systems to be successfully "miniaturized". It can be said to have a milestone significance for the leap-forward development of my country's electronic devices, leading our country to the world's leading level in the research and application of inorganic flexible electronic devices.
For scholars, science knows no borders. However, as Pasteur, a French scholar in the field of microbiology who rejected the invitation from the University of Bonn, said, "Although science has no borders, scientists have their own motherland." Lin Yuan's life was a life full of challenges, a life of continuous exploration and striving for the top on the road of scientific research, and a life of loyalty to the motherland. It is precisely because of countless patriotic scholars like Lin Yuan that the word "abroad student" has been gilded with golden light.