The keynote speech of the conference was lackluster, and the earnest entrustment of the French academician fell on Yang Rui's ears, and some Europeans groaned without illness.

It was the happiest time in Europe, the welfare state was perfect, the unemployment rate was extremely low and the wages were extremely high, and the post-war generation was winning an unprecedented victory, with the Soviet Union as an imaginary enemy and a comparator......

The wonderful reality gives Europeans a hint that they can do anything as long as they work hard - humans have landed on the moon, what else can't be done?

The Chinese cannot substitute their fantasies.

In the 80s, Chinese scientific researchers worked hard and persevered, but made very few world-class achievements.

At the end of the day, it's a long and accumulation-oriented industry, not a world where you can jump to the ceiling, and stories that happen overnight are occasional, but they always happen to others.

For example, Yang Rui, a first-year student at Peking University.

When he walked out of the lobby of the Xiangshan Hotel, he was surrounded by more than a dozen reporters.

Professional journalists, professional videographers, and photographers with videotape cameras.

A real big battle!

In 1984, there were no creatures like paparazzi in Chinese mainland, no free media, or independent journalists waiting to be sold.

Every microphone, every camera, every camera here represents a national media.

They surrounded Yang Rui in the middle, and then desperately stuffed the microphone into Yang Rui's mouth, and at the same time, the questions came to them:

"Yang Rui, as a first-year student at Peking University, what is it like to give a speech at an international conference?"

"Yang Rui, I heard that your paper has been praised by many parties, can you explain it to the readers?"

"Yang Rui, talk about your original intention and process of doing scientific research. ”

Groups of scholars flowed along both sides of the steps, curiously and enviously swept past Yang Rui, who was surrounded by a large group of reporters.

If you say that before this international conference, you can still guess the level of Yang Rui, after listening to Yang Rui's report and seeing Yang Rui's astuteness and rigor in the Q&A session, no one wants to challenge Yang Rui.

Everyone smiled and walked through, and no one thought to rub a little bit of the lens.

In the cruel world of science, talented young people, who have always been sharp bayonets, will only move forward bravely unless they break themselves. Even an equally sharp bayonet will not necessarily stop the impact of the other side, let alone these middle-aged and elderly scholars.

When Wang Yong and Tang came out, they saw a continuous stream of flashing lights.

Unlike the young reporters of the day before yesterday, the reporters here today belong to the level of not being stingy with film.

Wang Yong sighed emotionally: "It's really good to be young." When I first went to Moscow to attend an international conference, I was almost 40 years old, and it was a waste of time to think about it, Yang Rui was only about 20 years old, and in another 20 years, I don't know where he can go. ”

"As far as Yang Rui's development is concerned, it won't be just us. Tang Zhong is not as kind as Wang Yong, but he is very optimistic about Yang Rui, and the two have had more contact, which makes him understand Yang Rui better.

"Now the conditions are also better, you see, there are foreign media to take pictures, good guys, it's really a blockbuster. Professor Wang Yong couldn't help but raise his voice.

In front of Yang Rui, in addition to more than a dozen Chinese media, five or six foreign media gradually gathered.

However, they have a different focus from the Chinese media.

At the age of 20, a speech in the main conference hall of an international conference is not news at all, and only China, which has just opened up, regards a speech in the main conference hall as a thing. In Europe and the United States, it is not uncommon for geniuses to read PhD at the age of fifteen or sixteen.

However, professional academic reporters can discern the value of Yang Rui's theory.

Even if they don't know much, these academic reporters are used to calling for advice.

After asking, it makes them feel like they have found a treasure.

First of all, Yang Rui's research method has strong feasibility, although it has not been proven, it can be expected to be applied to calcium ion channels, sodium ion channels, magnesium ion channels...... Any ion channel is being studied.

As far as scientific research is concerned, this kind of research is the highest level, the so-called guided research, which can provide a decisive direction for other research work, and can be said to be research within research.

Isn't the impact factor obtained from the references?

If a fifty or sixty-year-old man had made such a powerful paper, the scientific community might not have changed much, and the media reporters would not have had so much interest in hyping it.

However, Yang Rui's age and this strong paper immediately aroused everyone's interest.

"Yang Rui, how would you evaluate yourself?" was the first question asked by the British reporter after breaking through the siege.

Also asked in English was an American reporter: "Yang Rui, what are your plans for the future? Will you go to the United States to study?"

When these two questions were asked, the Chinese reporters stopped talking.

Half because I don't understand, and half because I don't understand.

Foreign counterparts come from all over the world, and it is natural to let them know the etiquette of our ceremonial state.

Seeing this, Yang Rui first answered the foreigner's question in English: "I think that I am still in the stage of accumulation and learning, and the paper is a way to test the learning results, not the goal." ”

After answering the British reporter's question in a tone that the Chinese liked, Yang Rui turned to the Americans and said, "I haven't decided the direction of my future, so I can't talk about the direction." It's too early to say if I'm going to study abroad, and I won't think about it until at least my junior year. ”

"Aren't you thinking about graduating early? With your current grades, you have a good chance of going to Harvard. "American journalists suddenly came up with a startling option.

This is the kind of pride that only Americans can have. In their eyes, the center of the world is the United States, and the academic center of the United States is Harvard, so the best students in the world should naturally give priority to Harvard University.

In 2013, the era of the great explosion of Chinese academia, Harvard University in the United States published more papers in the Nature series than all of China's research institutions combined, let alone the barren 1984.

In the eyes of American journalists, Yang Rui is not so much an excellent scholar as a "genius boy from the Far East".

Yang Rui didn't guess the reporter's thoughts, and said when he saw the move: "I don't have the idea of graduating early for the time being, if I describe Harvard University, I will use curiosity instead of yearning." Of course, Harvard University is the world's top university and research institution, and its achievements are outstanding, but I am more accustomed to the atmosphere of Chinese universities......

Extremely fluent in American English, reporters sound effortless.

The Chinese reporters listened to it all, and for a while, they were very excited to film and record, especially the TV reporters, who looked like they had caught the big news.

In their view, a freshman who speaks fluently with a foreign correspondent in English is clearly easier to understand than a first-year student who writes a jerky essay, and seems to be more indicative of the nature of "genius."

Hu Xiaobing, a reporter from Guangming Daily, who was squeezed at the back of the crowd, even thought of the title of the news: "Peking University Wizard Invited to Harvard University"!