Chapter 377: The Dilemma of Life
Finally, in a round of applause, Wu Hao ended his speech. In fact, he didn't say much, but he just imagined the future development direction of the Biology and Life Science Research Center and boosted everyone's morale.
As for the rest, he did not go into details, in fact, the establishment of this biological and life science research center is also very low-key, not even a ribbon-cutting ceremony, just such an inaugural meeting.
On the one hand, the reason for this is to reduce the attention of the outside world, although this can't hide from those who have a heart, but at least it can reduce the excessive 'understanding' of the outside public.
On the other hand, it's also for the sake of low profile. As a newcomer who has just entered this field, there is no need to be so well-known, let's wait until some achievements are made.
In fact, he has long had an idea about establishing a biological and life science research center, but he has been hesitant. On the one hand, the company has been established for a relatively short time and expanded rapidly, so it is not appropriate to enter some industries that are not good at or do not understand at this stage.
On the other hand, Wu Hao also knows that biology and life sciences will be the focus of human research in the future, and they are also hot fields.
After all, for human beings whose standard of living is getting better and better, nothing is more important than health. Therefore, in the future, life science research and the development of practical medical technology will be hot fields. If nothing else, let's talk about a new drug, although the investment is relatively large, the income is also very amazing. Some of the drugs used to treat cancer are prohibitively expensive, some even cost tens of thousands of dollars a box, and that's not counting the other treatments that are constantly emerging.
And in this area, our country has always been at a backward stage in the world. Such key drugs and medical technologies are monopolized by foreign biomedical giants, and we spend a lot of foreign exchange imports every year.
However, the high cost of medicine is not affordable for everyone, and although the state and society have made a lot of efforts, many problems have been solved. However, the price of some long-term drugs is still very expensive, even if the medical insurance covers part of it, some patients still can't afford it.
Not to mention those drugs that are too expensive to be covered by health insurance. It's not that I don't want to include it, but I can't. The price of these drugs is too expensive, and if they are included, it will make the already difficult medical insurance fund even worse.
In fact, the drug itself is very cheap to manufacture. The real reason for its high price is not its production and raw material costs, but its R&D expenses.
The development of a drug is very expensive, which not only takes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also takes a lot of time. The R&D cycle of a drug is short for three or four years, and more than ten years long, which is not an on-site experiment, and this series is an astronomical amount in itself.
If a company spends such a large price to develop a drug, it is natural that it will also obtain benefits through this drug to make up for the cost of research and development. Therefore, it is actually difficult for drug R&D companies to bear the high cost of drug R&D on the one hand, and to bear the condemnation and irrational attacks of public opinion on the other.
It stands to reason that companies invent drugs to save patients' lives, and patients should be grateful. But before life, before a strong desire to survive, these become worthless. Even these companies have become targets for patients and punching bags for public opinion.
Of course, a drug research and development company is also an enterprise, and the purpose of a company's existence is to make a profit. It is understandable to sell the 'product' that they have worked so hard to develop, and it is the freedom of the enterprise to sell it at what price, and consumers can of course choose to buy it or not. But whoever makes these 'products' related to human life, once it involves human life, then people have no rationality to talk about.
Talking so much, it is not to overturn the case for drug R&D and production enterprises, some companies do rely on the technology patents they have in their hands to show off their might. even committed a lot of crimes, and I am afraid that I can't even count how many blood, tears, and lives are buried in them.
So when he first wanted to get involved in this field, he was very entangled. Whether this thing is done well or badly, he will be scolded.
When you can't develop something and can't come up with something, everyone will scold you for being useless and eating dry food. Why can foreign companies get it, you can't get it, to put it bluntly, it's useless.
When you develop it, these people will turn around and scold you. Why is a domestic medicine, why are you selling it so expensive, eating blood-stained steamed buns.
But a company is a business, not a charity, and the drugs developed at a large price can't be made at a loss.
Although the state has strengthened its support for such biopharmaceutical companies in recent years, it is only a drop in the bucket, and compared with the huge research costs, it is a drop in the bucket and does not play a big role.
So it's actually a very complex problem, and there is still a long way to go to solve it.
But if he didn't get involved in this field, he was a little unwilling, so he just let the 'knowledge' information in his mind go to waste.
Just watch those who are suffering from diseases die in despair, or watch those foreign biopharmaceutical oligarchs wielding the stick of sky-high drugs to make a fortune in the country.
Everyone will grow old one day, but in terms of money, he is no longer short of money. Even if he doesn't work now, he has enough money to squander for several lifetimes.
But to make so much money, if he really ends up in bed and waiting for death, he is unwilling and unwilling.
The other is his parents, who came home during the Spring Festival in the past two years, and he witnessed that his father and stepmother were aging year by year. What else can he do besides buying more nutritional supplements, which is also the question he is thinking.
And then there is the person around him, Zhang Jun, who is also his best friend brother. Because of the rapid weight gain, this product has been warned by the doctor during the company's physical examination at the beginning of this year. Severe fatty liver disease, sinus arrhythmia, in the words of the doctor, if his weight continues to grow like this, the heart will eventually be unable to bear it, and it will evolve into obese heart disease.
The human heart will not increase with the increase of human weight and volume after growth, so when the human body is overweight, the heart will not be able to bear it. It's like a small horse-drawn cart, destined to die of exhaustion. Therefore, many people who are overly obese eventually die of heart disease.
After Wu Hao learned the news, he was thinking, what should he do if one day his relatives and friends had an accident in front of him?
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