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In our country, there is such a scholar who can be outstanding. However, it has been controversial because of its high-profile behavior and radical speech.
He is now the party secretary of Taiyuan University of Technology - Zheng Qiang.
In the eyes of his classmates, he is a "strong brother";On the Internet, he is an "angry young professor" and "Internet celebrity professor"...
Since Professor Zheng Qiang became famous on the Internet, his remarks have caused endless debate among netizens. And his achievements in reality make it impossible for Internet "trolls" to find fault.
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Zheng Qiang entered Chongqing No. 29 Middle School to study high school. After three years of high school, Zheng Qiang was admitted to the Department of Chemistry of Zhejiang University when the college entrance examination system was restored.
In 1992, he went to Japan to study for a doctoral degree at Kyoto University. It was the experience of studying in Japan in the past few years that Zheng Qiang saw the gap between the motherland and Japan at that time, and he was determined to build the motherland, and he resolutely returned to China after graduation.
He has worked in the university for many years, and now he is the party secretary of Taiyuan University of Technology and a distinguished professor of Zedong Executive Leadership College of Yan'an University.
At the same time, Zheng Qiang scolded the Japanese and made a lot of anti-Japanese remarks, and was known as a "hardcore anti-Japanese professor". In the eyes of Chinese, who have always focused on low-key humility, Zheng Qiang is simply the opposite, a pure "rebel".
Criticizing Japan for not acknowledging the war crimes it had committed, he said:"Japan will not apologize, they need a faith to maintain their way of governing the country, and this faith is the Japanese emperor, rather than to gain the understanding and approval of the Chinese, it is better to maintain the faith of their country, with this faith, they can convince their country to 'remain unchanged for eternity'." ”
As a result, Zheng Qiang was nicknamed "hardcore anti-Japanese professor" on the Internet because he made a lot of anti-Japanese remarks in public.
Of course, Zheng Qiang also knows that it is wrong to have only hatred for the country of Japan. Having studied in Japan for many years, he also saw how powerful Japan is as a developed country.
After the reform and opening up, the country's economy has embarked on a fast track, and high-rise buildings have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. As a result, many people feel that China has fully modernized.
But Professor Zheng Qiang expressed a different view on the current situation in China:"Don't think that Shanghai is just as modern as Tokyo and Osaka. It's very easy to build a house or a bridge, but you have to see what kind of stage the quality of the people has reached. ”
As an intellectual, Professor Zheng Qiang is deeply aware that China's education level is still in a stage that needs to be improved.
He pointed out sharply:"The people who come out of the Japanese buildings are highly educated, but the people who come out of our buildings in Shanghai are illiterate!How can it be said that the country has been modernized?”
In the world, Japan ranks third in the world in terms of higher education and first in the world in terms of compulsory education. Zheng Qiang also saw that there is still a big gap between China's national education and Japan's.
His public remarks are not limited to criticism of Japan, but also express his unique views on the current situation in China.
He criticized the work of Qingbei's top students studying in the United States. In recent years, the proportion of students going abroad in Qingbei has been at a high level, so Professor Zheng Qiang scolded these Qingbei students as "traitors".
After receiving the country's top educational resources, they were willingly driven by the Americans, using their knowledge accumulated over more than ten years of hard study to serve the Americans and defeat our Chinese enterprises.
He criticized the Chinese people for worshipping foreigners. Zheng Qiang expressed strong condemnation of the girl's behavior of finding a black boyfriend and even posting on social networks to show off:"Some girls in the school are not self-respecting, and our girls have to please foreign men who are rubbish. ”
He was opposed to advanced education. "China's children are not losing at the starting line, and the vast majority of Chinese children are actually tired at the starting line. ”
Professor Zheng Qiang believes that children should learn something at what stage, and they should not be forced to learn knowledge that they should not be exposed to at this stage.
This will inevitably lead to the exhaustion of children's enthusiasm for learning and Xi, and will further intensify the involution of education, which in turn will crowd out children's childhood time outside schoolwork.
However, Zheng Qiang's high-profile attitude and a series of radical remarks were disgusted by some netizens, who considered Zheng Qiang to be like an "angry youth", equating him with a "troll" who would scold him for everything.
As a result, the voices of opposition and condemnation of Zheng Qiang on the online platform are endless:
For Zheng Qiang's scolding of Qingbei students as "traitors", they claimed that high-end talents were mobile. The salary level in the United States is higher, the school company is more powerful, and the top students go to the United States to study or work, it is their personal choice, and their choice should be respected.
Regarding Zheng Qiang's condemnation of "looking for a foreign boyfriend", many people questioned that he was maliciously belittling the status of women, which was a patriarchal behavior.
And Zheng Qiang's series of remarks denouncing Japan were questioned on the grounds that "not only bad people, but also good people among the Japanese".
In short, all kinds of scolding against Zheng Qiang on the Internet are endless, and Zheng Qiang can be said to be scolded bloody, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was "cyberbullied".
In the face of the accusations of netizens, Zheng Qiangren, as his name suggests, also responded to these accusations against him with very tough words:
"The Japanese invaded us because we had a lot of traitors. In the future, when the Japanese invade us, will there be traitors?Who will be the traitor of China in the future?A large part of you here will be. Because you ridicule patriots, worship power and money, and despise ideals and ambition. ”
Zheng Qiang not only scolded the "pro-Japanese traitors", but also severely rebuked the rising money worship and power-only theory in China. These people's doubts were dumbfounded by Professor Zheng Qiang.
Academically. Professor Zheng Qiang has presided over more than 20 national research projects, with a total scientific research fund of more than 3,000 yuan, more than 520 SCI articles published in total, and more than 10 related patents.
Professor Zheng Qiang has received many awards, including National Outstanding Young Scholars, Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, National Candidate of the "New Century Millions of Talents Project", and Director of the National Key Laboratory of Polymer Synthesis and Functional Structure.
In teaching and educating people. Zheng Qiang believes that universities should not only have buildings, but must pay close attention to teaching, and he attaches great importance to the construction of school spirit, teaching style, and examination style.
He said:"We must not let our children be poor in the ravine forever, we must let them go out. ”
In 2012, Zheng Zheng, then dean of Qiushi College of Zhejiang University, was appointed deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of Guizhou University.
At that time, Guizhou University was in ruins, and Zheng Qiang, who had just taken office as president, deeply felt the old teaching equipment and public facilities of the university, but the faculty and staff took the lead in opposing the relocation to the newly built campus.
Therefore, under Zheng Qiang's tough attitude, Guizhou University moved to the new campus and committed to reshaping the school's atmosphere.
Under Zheng Qiang's reform, Guizhou University has undergone earth-shaking changes. In 2020, Zheng Qiang came to Taiyuan University of Technology and took office as Secretary of the Party Committee of Taiyuan University of Technology.
Zheng Qiang, who came to Taiyuan Institute of Technology, maintained his consistent vigorous and resolute style, and he was dissatisfied with the current situation of the school, and he carried out drastic reforms at Taiyuan University of Technology.
As a result, this old university in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, has a new year, and the application rate has reached a record high. This reflects the recognition of the teachers and school resources of Tai Yuan Engineering, and also the approval of President Zheng Qiang's school philosophy.
From Zhejiang University to Guizhou University, and then to Taiyuan University of Technology, Professor Zheng Qiang is like a brick, the motherland needs him, he will go. This is also the original intention of his ambition to build a nation.
In today's era when traffic is king and Internet celebrities are in charge, Professor Zheng Qiang's series of remarks are circulating on the Internet, which also makes some netizens who accidentally "brush" him think that he is packaging himself as a radical "angry youth" for traffic and profit.
In fact, we need not be too harsh on Professor Zheng Qiang, who lived in an era in which the US-led NATO imposed an economic blockade on China for a long time.
Living in a difficult period of internal and external difficulties, Zheng Qiang experienced too much bitterness with that generation, and also witnessed the unprovoked bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, and the Chinese were so powerless in the international community when the country suffered such humiliation.
So, in this context, Professor Zheng Qiang was shaped by the times into an "angry youth" who "is not my race, his heart must be different". It is true that as an "angry youth", many of Professor Zheng Qiang's remarks are too extreme in the eyes of some netizens today.
But I have to admit that Zheng Qiang's dissatisfaction with the status quo expressed in every sentence is true. It must also be noted that Zheng Qiang's straightforward remarks have also awakened the patriotic consciousness of many students.
In the same way as his philosophy of "don't blindly follow, don't imitate, don't follow", we don't have to fully agree with his views, and we don't have to follow the spirit of taking the essence of his remarks and eliminating the dross.
What about the complete disapproval of some of his opinions?
Compared with those remarks he made, we should keep in mind that China's prosperity today was created by the blood and sweat of our martyrs, and in this vast land under our feet, 35 million compatriots who died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are buried.
As a Chinese who grew up under the protection of our ancestors, why don't we love our motherland?