Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Wei Hongjun doesn't want professors to leave China due to political suppression of academics. Many students studying in Europe and the United States still haven't returned home, and he can't discourage them from returning.

Of course, Wei Hongjun is more worried that if the impact of this incident expands, other universities and research institutions will handle it in the same way, and the problem will become even more serious. This is what Wei Hongjun is most worried about.

So Wei Hongjun's attitude was very sincere.

The past of each family comforts them.

After completing these tasks, Wei Hongjun and Guo Moruo jointly wrote a report to the Central Committee on the handling of the issues concerning North China Agricultural University.

First: Yue Tianyu’s problem is serious.

Yue Tianyu failed to distinguish the relationship between politics and science, equating politics with science. He blindly replaced the specific situation of science with philosophical concepts and used politics to suppress science. His admiration for Michurin's biology was not based on academic considerations, but on the basis of

They use the stick of Michurin biology to intimidate others, suppress academic freedom, and affect the normal teaching and scientific research of North China Agricultural University.

We should attach importance to Michurin biology and develop Michurin biology. But we cannot use Michurin biology as a political weapon. The biggest problem of Yue Tianyu is that he did not take Michurin biology as a guide for practice, but instead made Michurin biology a myth.

Forest biology is used as a political weapon.

If someone raises a question about his work, he says that they are against Michurin; if someone opposes his bad style, he says that the other party has political problems and has ulterior motives. This style of work of using politics to confuse academics and suppressing academics is detrimental to my country's scientific cause.

Profitable.

Moreover, in academia, Comrade Yue Tianyu attaches importance to production technology and neglects the study of systematic agricultural theory; he emphasizes learning from production and denies laboratory work; he sets rational knowledge and perceptual knowledge in opposition and separates them, emphasizing one side and neglecting the other, which is a wrong and artificial

Oppose theoretical research and production research.

Therefore, Wei Hongjun's attitude towards Yue Tianyu's problem is very firm. That is, Yue Tianyu is no longer suitable for North China Agricultural University. It should be said that Yue Tianyu is no longer suitable for a position in an institution like a university. With Yue Tianyu's work style, he is no longer suitable for a position in a university or a research institution.

This would inevitably lead to conflicts and contradictions with scientific researchers. Therefore, Wei Hongjun proposed to remove Yue Tianyu from his position as director of the North China Agricultural University Academic Affairs Committee.

However, although Wei Hongjun criticized Yue Tianyu harshly in his report.

But Wei Hongjun still admitted that Yue Tianyu was an outstanding agricultural expert and agricultural cadre. After all, Yue Tianyu was not the kind of cadre who talked big, but a technical cadre who really had professional knowledge and had led agricultural work. Agricultural cadres like Yue Tianyu played an important role in the new China.

It is very valuable.

Wei Hongjun talked with Yue Tianyu several times while at North China Agricultural University.

His attitude was firm.

He thought his work style might be flawed, but his perspective was correct. He was a stubborn and stubborn cadre with a bad temper. Furthermore, Yue Tianyu placed great emphasis on practical work, and his work revolved around production. He believed that agricultural research should be centered around agricultural production. Research divorced from production was useless.

It is precisely because of this idea that Yue Tianyu is not suitable to continue working in universities and research institutions.

But there are still many places where he is needed.

Wei Hongjun suggested sending Yue Tianyu south to take charge of rubber planting. Natural rubber is a strategic material. China needs it, and the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union also needs it. But the socialist camp can only rely on China. So the south is currently carrying out

A "Rubber Campaign" was launched, and rubber was planted on a large scale in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Hainan.

In order to plant rubber, many troops were directly converted into production corps and began to develop rubber plantations.

But there are also many problems.

If rubber seeds imported from Southeast Asia are to be successfully planted in China and increase yields, further research and development of the rubber seeds is necessary to make them more adaptable to the soil and climate in China.

This kind of job is most suitable for Yue Tianyu.

That's why Wei Hongjun recommended Yue Tianyu to participate in the "Rubber Battle".

Second: On the issue of developing Michurin biology.

Wei Hongjun made concessions in terms of Michurin biology. At present, Michurin biology does not dominate the field of biology. This is because Michurin biology was mainly promoted by the Soviet Union, while Chinese schools have always been learning from Europe and the United States, or

Learning from Japan. Therefore, Michurin biology is still a small concept in schools across the country. The current situation is that the top leaders are deeply influenced by the Soviet Union and are fully supporting Michurin biology.

Therefore, in this report, Wei Hongjun supported the inclusion of Michurin biology content in middle school and university textbooks. This concession was necessary. The Soviet Union's aura was too great, and Stalin's was too dazzling, for Wei Hongjun to take it lightly.

Politics is also the art of compromise.

Wei Hongjun's intervention politically interrupted a major expansion of Michurin biology in Chinese science. Or rather, it wasn't the expansion of Michurin biology itself, but rather the shift towards learning from the Soviet Union, where politics superseded science, that was interrupted by Wei Hongjun.

Although the source of this power came from the Soviet Union, it was driven by cadres from the liberated areas and the experts and professors who came from those areas. Most things, if you look closely, have their own internal causes and internal laws.

The same thing happened at North China Agricultural University this time.

This incident is not just an academic issue, nor is it just because of the influence of the Soviet Union. It is a major friction and a contest between scholars in the liberated areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas. Scholars from the liberated areas want to take advantage of this incident and use the Soviet Union as an excuse to

Overwhelm scholars in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.

Now that he was interrupted by Wei Hongjun, he offended more than one or two people.

Dissatisfied with Wei Hongjun's approach, not only by some in China but also by many cadres in the Soviet Union, who believed that Wei Hongjun was using "political means to suppress the dissemination of academic thought," even led Soviet experts and professors at North China Agricultural University to protest.

Wei Hongjun also felt some pressure. Therefore, he compromised on the issue of Michurin biology. Furthermore, if Michurin biology were not so politically tainted, it would have been a distinct academic school.

Third: Propose to split North China Agricultural University.

Wei Hongjun suggested that North China Agricultural University be split into three universities. Many people within North China Agricultural University have become enemies and their relationships have become very bad. They usually do not interact with each other or talk to each other. How can a university with such internal hostility continue to work normally?

We must continue to be together. Of course, Wei Hongjun's report would not have written this.

In the report, Wei Hongjun's opinion is that North China Agricultural University gathers the largest number of experts and scholars in the fields of agriculture and forestry in China, which is not conducive to the development of universities in other regions. China is so big that agricultural production in each place is different. Therefore, each region should have

A specialized agricultural university will train agricultural experts needed by the local area. For the development of other regions and the development of agriculture across the country, some teachers and students will be assigned from North China Agricultural University to support other regions.

After discussing with Guo Moruo and Ma Xulun, Wei Hongjun suggested establishing Beijing Agricultural University, Southeast Agricultural University and Southwest Agricultural University.

Beijing Agricultural University was established by the staff who stayed in Beijing from North China Agricultural University. Southeast Agricultural University was mainly formed by scholars who were affected by the turmoil and supported Mendel-Morgan. They separated from North China Agricultural University and then cooperated with the agricultural departments of universities in Southeast and South China.

In fact, from another perspective, scholars of the Mendel-Morgan school of genetics had no choice but to leave Beijing.

Wei Hongjun knew that as more Soviet aid projects were built and more Soviet experts and professors came to China, the Soviet Union's influence in China would grow. Although Wei Hongjun had stopped it this time, the general trend would not change in the next few years.

That's why Wei Hongjun founded Southeast Agricultural University.

Provide certain protection within your ability.

Then there is Southwest Agricultural University.

The main plan was to merge the agricultural science programs of universities in the three southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and then send part of the staff of North China Agricultural University to Sichuan. Southwest Agricultural University was established in Chongqing.

Wei Hongjun's report tried to keep the tone as low as possible.

Treat it as a mistake made by the leadership of North China Agricultural University, rather than discussing the contradiction between Michurin biology and Mendel's genetics. The Soviet Union had already reached a conclusion on this issue.

China cannot currently engage in public discussions in this regard.

Comrades Gao Gang and Xiu Yang successively commented on the report, and the Chairman finally approved it. Wei Hongjun used this time, combined with his research at North China Agricultural University, to publish the article "Science and Politics."

It will be published publicly after approval by the Chairman.

"Vice Premier Wei, good news, great news. According to the Harbin Trade Fair, we've already reached a $11 million contract of intent within 1.2 days."

818 Expansion of the canned food industry

The results of the Harbin International Trade Fair were much better than expected.

In fact, although the central government and local governments attach great importance to the Harbin Trade Fair, this kind of import and export trade fair is the first of its kind. China has no experience in this area, so it is not known how effective it will be. The original idea was to use this kind of trade fair to let the Soviet Union

We should also help the socialist countries in Eastern Europe to understand China's light industrial products. In future cooperation, we can consider Chinese products and increase the possibility of exporting our products.

So there was no clear goal of actually signing the contract.

But no one expected that after the Kazakhstan Trade Fair, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries were very enthusiastic.

They are very interested in many Chinese products.

Willing to import Chinese products.

By the time Wei Hongjun arrived in Harbin, the Harbin Trade Fair had already concluded. China, the Soviet Union, and Eastern European socialist countries had reached nearly $1.4 million in letters of intent. Socialist countries of this era were largely planned economies.

The representatives from various countries who came to the Harbin Trade Fair this time were mainly cadres from the foreign trade departments of their respective countries.

In other words, the Harbin Trade Fair is a public-to-public one.

It's different from the Canton Fair.

The Canton Fair is primarily attended by businesspeople, and letters of intent are just letters of intent. Fewer letters of intent from the Canton Fair are ultimately implemented. However, at the Harbin Fair, which is a business-to-business event, many letters of intent are successfully implemented unless there are major issues.

1.4 million US dollars, this is an astonishing figure.

China's total annual import and export volume is only a few percent, yet within just two weeks of the Harbin Trade Fair, so many export contracts were signed. With that much money, if we imported machinery and equipment, we could even build several large steel mills.

"Lao Gao, the Harbin International Trade Fair is well organized."

Wei Hongjun saw Gao Weinong busy at work.

Wei Hongjun hadn't seen Gao Weinong for several years, ever since he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and stationed in Dalian to oversee Northeast China's foreign trade. Seeing the Harbin International Trade Fair going so smoothly and well-organized, Wei Hongjun was happy for Gao Weinong.

Gao Weinong is suitable for this kind of work.

The success of the Harbin Trade Fair is a great political achievement for Gao Weinong, who is in charge of the Harbin Trade Fair on the front line.

“It is thanks to the full cooperation of various ministries and local governments that we have achieved this result.

"Comrade Gao Weinong is being modest."

Mao Zemin said, "This is the first time for the Ministry of Foreign Trade to hold an import and export trade fair like the Harbin Trade Fair. We have no experience at all. The current rules and regulations of the Harbin Trade Fair were all drawn up by Comrade Gao Weinong and his team. Let's see how effective they are."

Mao Zemin was in a good mood.

Because the work during this period was very smooth and the results were very good.

After 1949, the RMB not only began to circulate in cities across the country, but also began to slowly penetrate into rural areas. Rural areas are poor, but the rural population is large, more than 80% of the country's population is in rural areas. If those towns are included, more than 90% of the population is in rural areas.

So after the RMB began to enter the rural areas, its value began to stabilize rapidly.

Because a large amount of RMB was concentrated in cities, pushing up urban prices, it began to flow into rural areas in large quantities, stabilizing prices.

Price stability means social stability.

It can be said that monetary policy has been very successful this year.

Then came the work at the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Since 1947, foreign trade has been growing. This time, the Harbin Trade Fair has achieved such great results. Mao Zemin was even more satisfied that the success of the Harbin Trade Fair gave the Ministry of Foreign Trade experience.

What Mao Zemin and Wei Hongjun originally discussed was to hold the Canton Fair and the Harbin Fair in the south and the north respectively.

With the success of the Harbin Trade Fair, the Canton Fair has more confidence.

“Is there a problem?

"Have."

Gao Weinong nodded and said, "This time, the most popular product among the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries is canned food. The Soviet Union and Eastern European countries also want a wide variety of canned food, starting with meat and poultry, as well as vegetables, fruits, and fish. Romania, in particular, needs a large amount of canned fish.