Constructing Military Medical Building of Motherland 　　This report written by Our Staff Reporters Li Xinyan and Jia Xiping and Xinhua Correspondent Zhang Dongbo is about academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering who are engaged in military medical research. 　　Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently signed the General Order, granting Wang Zhengguo, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and research fellow of the Third Military Medical University under the General Logistics Department, a citation of merit, first class, commending him for his outstanding contributions made over the past four decades to China's military medical service. 　　In the PLA (People's Liberation Army) military medical research contingent, 26 persons have been successively elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, like Wang Zhengguo, they have all made outstanding contributions to the development of the motherland's military medical science. 　　In October 1996, the 31st International Military Medical Science Meeting was held in Beijing. When Chinese military medical scientists, including Li Ao, Wang Zhengguo, Wu Zuze, and Cheng Tianmin from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering mounted the podium one after another to report on their medical research achievements, military medical scientists and scholars from different countries deeply felt the important position and superiority held by Chinese military medical science on the stage of world science and technology. 　　Of the 500 papers exchanged at the 31st International Military Medical Science Meeting, 250 were works from the Chinese. These high-level papers declared to the world's people: Chinese military medical science had reached the advanced international level in the fields of burn and wound surgery, radiation disease, military toxicology, cardiosurgery, hepatic surgery, and ear-nose-throat clinical research. 　　The year 1986 was the International Year of Peace. 　　In that year, the Military Medical Science Institute won the special-class state prize of technological progress for its "wartime special weapon injury medical protection research". People praised this achievement as a Shield of Peace. However, this glittering Shield of Peace embodies the nearly 50 years of the painstaking efforts of more than 10 academicians and the 5,000 military medical researchers they led. If the laurel of the Republic's special-class prize they have grabbed with their knowledge and wisdom is so far the only one in the medical circle, then what is more valuable than the special-class prize is their utter devotion to the motherland. 　　On October 20, 1998, fresh flowers and applause pushed the 17 winners of the "Fourth Young Chinese Scientists Prize" to the front stage. Among these outstanding scientists, one young scholar, 36 years old, was He Fuchu, a researcher of the Military Medical Institute. When talking about his growth, He said with deep feeling, "It would have been impossible for what I have achieved today without the help of my tutor Professor Wu Zuze." In a winter day in 1987, 25-year-old He had performed procedures for going abroad. Before his departure, Professor Wu had a lengthy talk with him. At that time, Professor Wu who was then director of the research office, took a fancy to He's talent, prepared to transfer him to his own office and assigned him an important topic of molecule biological research. 　　Thereafter, He Fuchu became doctorial student of Professor Wu Zuze. Under Wu's guidance, He Fuchu, from the high plane of molecule biology, conducted scientific argumentation and research on Darwin's evolution theory, he discovered for the first time the two basic life phenomena on the molecular level-the unity of birth and evolution, thus filling the international gap. Later, 31-year-old He Fuchu first took over the post as head of the research office in place of Wu Zuze, and then became director of the research institute. 　　Behind Wu Zuze, there was also a man bringing up talent, and he was Zhu Renbao. One summer afternoon, in the library of the military medical institute, Zhu Renbao took a British medical magazine to a young man who was consulting technical reference and said to him, "I hope you could go over this article, perhaps it would be helpful to your study...."This young man, worthy of the discerning eyes of the old professor, not only understood what he had read, but showed great interest in it. 　　In 1993, Wu Zuze was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in the following year, he took the post as president of the Military Medical Institute and was granted the military rank as a major general. HomeNews 1999-05-20 Page1 Full Story in Chinese