World has kissed his soul with pain and he returns in songs

28-yr-old Chinese man with late-stage nephritis stuns the world with six patent designs

What kind of people can bring out six patent designs within two years? Scientists? Or science aficionados? They may be bold and tired-looking from around-the-clock working, but they are physically and mentally strong to deal with all the pressure and challenges.

The 28-year-old Zou Yongsong does not look physically strong at first glance: he is willowy and yellowish if you know him better, and you will even see him get hemodialysis four times a day on his own. He even has a death note under his pillow in case he never wakes up one morning.

This pale-but-determined-looking man has received his sixth patent certificate in March and his patent products are already in place to serve more people around him, making this young man’s story going viral in China.

The latest patent product is shared printer, which has been installed at his university. In March 2016, he received his first national patent certificate for his emergency rescue system, which offers hospital information and access to call for help based on the location of the person in need of medical service.

Zou, a postgraduate at Changsha University of Science and Technology, was diagnosed with nephritis at a young age. Now the disease has aggravated to the late stage. Since June 2017, Zou has given himself hemodialysis over 1,000 times in total at his rented apartment to save money.

The death note written in May 2017 recorded his pain: “Mom, dad, my disease has aggravated quickly these days. The serum creatinine level has reached 700. I feel it hard to breathe sometimes, let alone talking.”

Every day, he reads his death note before he goes to bed, encouraging himself to live yet another day for his parents and for his career.

After finishing his graduation thesis one year early, Zou has been working as an intern at a university institute on self-driving technology, and in the meantime, continuing his experiments on his inventions. He refuses to go to hospital for hemodialysis for fear that the hospitalization would hinder his research.

The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs. This is Zou’s favorite quote of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. But in his diary, Zou put it the other way, saying that he is willing to return in songs even though he has been kissed with pain.