Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

He Yuzhu asked Team Leader Gu about some difficulties encountered in the promotion and transportation of live attenuated polio vaccines. He paused for a moment and said, "Team Leader Gu, according to what you said, both the current liquid live attenuated polio vaccines and the solid sugar pill live attenuated polio vaccines you plan to develop need to be refrigerated for transportation. Do we need special transport vehicles to ensure that the vaccines are kept in a low temperature environment?"

"According to foreign experience, they do use special refrigerated trucks to transport vaccines, but our country currently does not have such special vehicles. Importing them from abroad is too expensive," Team Leader Gu said helplessly.

"I just don't know what the requirements are for the low-temperature refrigerated trucks that Team Leader Gu mentioned? The Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant under our factory manufactures cars. I wonder if our factory can develop one?"

"There are no special requirements. It just requires the vehicle to be able to keep the medicines at a low temperature during transportation."

"In that case, I will arrange for our technicians to study this technology when I return to see if we can develop a low-temperature refrigerated truck that can meet the needs of drug transportation."

"Deputy Director He, aren't you the deputy director of the Red Star Steel Plant? You gave orders to the subordinate Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant. Does this have any impact on you?" Team Leader Gu asked with a worried look on his face.

"It's okay. I'm not only the deputy director of the Red Star Steel Plant, but also the director of the Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant. At that time, the reason why our Red Star Steel Plant produced automobiles was to meet the country's needs for automobiles and develop our country's automobile industry. Since your medical industry has special needs for vehicles, then as an automobile manufacturer, we have the obligation to meet your requirements."

"I didn't expect that Deputy Director He is also the director of the Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant. The Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant is the largest automobile manufacturing plant in our country, even more powerful than the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant in Northeast China. Leading cadres across the country drive cars produced by your factory. We have many cars produced by your factory in our department." Director Wu was afraid that Team Leader Gu didn't know how powerful the Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant was, so he hurriedly introduced it.

"Director Wu, you are too kind. Our factory is only well-received in China. Internationally, we cannot compare with those top large automobile manufacturers at all." He Yuzhu said modestly.

"By the way, Director Wu, Team Leader Gu, the money donated to the institute may need to be given to you in batches, and cannot be given to you all at once. This money was previously used to buy national construction bonds, and these bonds will mature one after another, so they will not be given to you until they mature. But don't worry too much. These national bonds are all one-year bonds, and 6 yuan of bonds will mature every month. It will take about a year to donate all the money to your institute. Therefore, when you spend money on research and development, it is best to make a budget based on the receipt of our donations to you."

"Deputy Director He, that's OK. The development of polio vaccine takes a long time and requires a lot of experiments. Sufficient funds will allow us to conduct multiple rounds of experiments simultaneously, which can speed up the development of polio vaccine to a certain extent. Therefore, we spend money according to the progress of the experiments. Even if you give all the money to our institute at once, we will spend it bit by bit according to the progress."

"Then I'll be relieved. Then please tell me the bank account of your institute when the time comes. I will directly transfer the money to your bank account every month in the future."

"I don't know about that. I have to ask the cashier of our institute." Team Leader Gu said a little embarrassedly.

"Then please ask Team Leader Gu for the bank account number and call me to let me know. Director Wu, Team Leader Gu, it's getting late and I still have some work to do at the factory, so I won't bother you two."

"Team Leader Gu, let's see Deputy Director He off!" Director Wu said enthusiastically to Team Leader Gu. Team Leader Gu nodded after listening, and then the two of them sent He Yuzhu to He Yuzhu's car together.

"Director Wu, Team Leader Gu, please stay! We'll meet again if we're lucky." After saying that, He Yuzhu stretched out his right hand and shook hands with the two of them. Then he opened the car door, got in, started the SUV, and drove slowly towards the gate of the Ministry of Health.

As He Yuzhu's off-road vehicle drove further and further away, Team Leader Gu said to Director Wu, "Director Wu, why do I feel like I'm dreaming about what happened today? I just came to Sijiu City on a business trip, and someone unexpectedly came to our door and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to our institute."

"Team Leader Gu, you are wrong. Even if you really dream, you wouldn't dare to dream like this. Do you know what level Deputy Director He is?" Director Wu said with a smile.

"What level? Isn't he the deputy director of their factory?" Team Leader Gu asked puzzledly.

"It's true that he is the deputy director of their factory, but do you know? Their director is a department-level cadre. He is only in his 20s and is already a deputy department-level cadre. I am only a division-level cadre. Moreover, the First Automobile Works in Northeast China is not as large as theirs, but the director is a deputy ministerial-level cadre. And according to the current development of their factory, it will become a deputy ministerial-level enterprise in a few years. Do you dare to believe that a young man in his early 30s is at the deputy ministerial level? This kind of thing makes me dare not even dream about it." Director Wu said with envy.

After listening to Director Wu's words, Team Leader Gu realized that He Yuzhu, who looked humble, actually had such a high status. He asked curiously, "Director Wu, as you said, Deputy Director He is so young, how did he get such a high position?"

"He has no background or connections. He relied entirely on his own efforts. He led a group of workers in the Red Star Machinery Manufacturing Plant to manufacture cars in more than two years. By the way, he was also elected as a national advanced labor worker in 2, and his deeds were reported in newspapers." Director Wu said with emotion.

When Team Leader Gu heard about He Yuzhu's deeds, he was stunned. After a long while, he came back to his senses and said, "Director Wu, I really didn't expect that Deputy Director He could do such a great thing. In comparison, I think what I did is really insignificant!"

Hearing what Team Leader Gu said, Director Wu smiled and consoled him: "Team Leader Gu, you and Deputy Director He are engaged in different fields, there is no need to compare the two of you. As long as you can do your job well, it is the greatest contribution to the country."

Thanks to the financial support provided by He Yuzhu, the development of the live attenuated polio vaccine was greatly accelerated. The fixed sugar pill vaccine, which was originally not expected to appear until 1964, was successfully developed at the end of 1961, three years ahead of schedule. In addition, He Yuzhu and Lou Xiao'e donated million yuan per month to provide free sugar pill vaccines to children in farm areas. This series of measures greatly reduced the spread of polio virus.