Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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The winter of 1980 in Beijing was extremely cold, with a total of five heavy snowfalls throughout December. Reports suggest that this winter's snowfall was the largest in nearly 20 years. After two months of opening, Chen Chunxian's service department finally received its first business. The factory manager of a small street factory in Haidian District asked Chen Chunxian, a nuclear fusion scientist who came to sell business, "Can you help us solve the problem with the power supply?" Chen Chunxian was stunned for a moment and then said, "Of course, how much money can you give





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Chuanren Chunxian




On August 9, 2004, Chen Chunxian passed away, just two days after his 70th birthday. Even among the people in Zhongguancun, few still remember his name.

In October 1980, Chen Chunxian, China's top nuclear fusion expert and a 46 year old researcher from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, returned from an investigation in the United States. This was his third visit to the United States in two years. What impressed him most during these trips was not the academic progress of his American counterparts, but the country's ability to spread technology industrialization. He always goes to two places, one is Silicon Valley in the west, and the other is Boston's "Route 128" in the east. Walking in those narrow and lush areas with low houses, he suddenly developed a passion he had never experienced before. Chen Chunxian was the most promising new generation scientist in China at that time. In 1978, the Chinese Academy of Sciences hired the first batch of professor level researchers after the reform and opening up, with only ten people in total. Chen Chunxian was on the list along with mathematician Chen Jingrun, who later became an "idol of the times". And this trip to Silicon Valley completely changed his life.