In the economics community in China today, everyone knows Lin Yifu's name. He has served as Senior Vice President of the World Bank, Consultant of the State Council and Member of the Standing Committee of the 13th CPPCC. He is the top think tank of the national "think tank".
The country's "10th Five-Year Plan" was also drafted by Lin Yifu. Therefore, when it comes to Lin Yifu's name, people who are familiar with him will always give him a thumbs up and say: This is a "god man".
In fact, saying that Lin Yifu is a "god man" does not only refer to the status he has gained in the Chinese economics community, but also to the past when he risked his life to travel back to the mainland from Taiwan to the danger of his life.
In the early 1970s, Lin Yifu was still a young student. Because he took the initiative to sign up for the army, he had received personal reception and commendation from Jiang Ching-kuo. He can be regarded as a household name on Taiwan Island.
If Lin Yifu chose to stay in Taiwan to develop, his future would be very bright. But he eventually left his parents and his six-month-old wife and swam back to the mainland alone in 1979.
In the mid-1970s, China was facing the economic blockade of Western world . However, after the economic takeoff in the 1960s, Taiwan has become one of the four Asian dragons .
What is Lin Yifu thinking about from economically developed Taiwan to the poor and backward mainland? If you want to understand this past, you have to go back to Taiwan more than 40 years ago to take a look.
1. Serve to the Kuomintang army and find opportunities to return to the mainland
Lin Yifu's real name is Lin Zhengyi. He was born in Yilan County, Taiwan in 1952 and has a relatively ordinary family background. He studied hard when he was a child. He was admitted to the Department of Agriculture and Engineering of National Taiwan University at the age of 19 and became the president of the Student Union.
Just just when everyone thought Lin Yifu would join the government department to work in civilian work after graduation, he suddenly did something that everyone could not understand, that was to sign up for the army.
The atmosphere in Taiwan at that time was that "a good man would not be a soldier, and a good iron would not be nailed", because once he chose to join the army, it would mean that he might be sent to the front line of the "Kinmen" and become cannon fodder.
Why do you say that you will become cannon fodder when you send it to Kinmen? It turns out that there is an Kinmen Island in the closest place to mainland China and Taiwan. When the sea water is receding, the closest straight line distance to Xiamen, Fujian is only about 1.8 kilometers.
After 1949, the Kuomintang actually controlled this island. In order to prevent the People's Liberation Army from fighting here, the Kuomintang had at most 100,000 troops stationed on the island. Although
has heavy defense, for decades, the entire island has been shrouded in dark clouds of war. As the confrontation between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait has been long, there are always old soldiers who are about to retire, and at this time, new recruits need to be added.
When the Kuomintang was defeated and fled Taiwan, it had a serious conflict with the local people of Taiwan. Therefore, the locals in Taiwan had great opinions on the Kuomintang army and thought they were soldiers. Almost no one is willing to join the army for the children of good people.
Lin Yifu, as a college student, actually took the initiative to ask for joining the army, which naturally made the Kuomintang authorities overjoyed, so he immediately set an example for publicity. Chiang Ching-kuo also met him personally, shook hands with him, and published the photos in the newspaper.
In 1975, Lin Yifu went to the Army Officer School in Taiwan to study for further studies. After graduation, he was sent by the Kuomintang army to take a master's degree in enterprise management, and later served in the army.
As soon as Lin Yifu entered the army, he was immediately sent to the front line of Kinmen to be a captain company commander, but no one expected that just three months later, he "swimmed" back to the mainland.
2. Rising his life to travel back to the mainland and becoming a top think tank
. Regarding the incident of traveling back to the mainland, Lin Yifu had already planned it. He prepared all the tools and dry food he needed early in the morning. Before leaving, he also hinted that his wife would not be there, hoping that she could learn from Wang Baochuan Hard to guard the Han Kiln for eighteen years.
So, why did Lin Yifu return to the mainland? This question has always confused many people.But his own statement is that he read through China's economic development history and believes that China's future still depends on the mainland.
Lin Yifu is a person with great ambitions and great ambitions, so no matter how good Taiwan's development was at that time, he saw the future of China.
So, one day, Lin Yifu took his ID, life jacket, and a kettle, and took advantage of the tide to jiaoyu Island .
At that time, Lin Yifu was still wearing the military uniform of the Kuomintang army. It was actually very dangerous to swim over like this. Maybe he would be regarded as a spy. But he was lucky and finally returned to his arms smoothly.
After arriving in the mainland, the country learned about Lin Yifu's situation and made an exception to send him to the Economic Department of Peking University. In 1980, Lin Yifu got an opportunity to become a student of the Nobel Prize in Economics , the winner of , Schultz , and was recommended by the latter to study in the United States.
In the United States, Lin Yifu's academic level has made great progress. He not only became a postdoctoral fellow, but also reunited with his wife and children. Later, Lin Yifu brought his wife and children back to the mainland. At that time, he was the first person in China to get a doctorate degree.
Because Lin Yifu studied agricultural economy in Taiwan and the United States, he was sent by the state to work at the Rural Development Research Center, and also served as a professor at Peking University .
Regarding the past of Lin Yifu traveling back to the mainland, the Taiwanese authorities did not pursue the investigation before Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988. It was not until after Chiang's death that the Taiwanese authorities issued a "wanted order" to Lin Yifu.
Forty-three years in the mainland, Lin Yifu never regretted his choice. The only regret is that he was found guilty of "defection" by the Taiwanese authorities and failed to return to his hometown when his father passed away.
At present, Lin Yifu is still fighting on the front line of my country's economic construction. His wife Chen Yunying is also a doctoral student. She has been involved in poverty alleviation in recent decades and has also established a special education studio with the support of the state to provide educational assistance to people with disabilities.
Conclusion
When the whole world was not optimistic about the mainland, Lin Yifu quietly swam back to the mainland, and many people were doubting that there was something wrong with his motive. He didn't mind the doubts from the outside world at all.
In fact, Lin Yifu is a person with a temperament. He has an impulsive personality, but his return to the mainland was definitely not because of a hot mind for a moment.
When I was studying in Taiwan, Lin Yifu had a keen eye and had an insight into the laws of economic development of human society, and expected that China's future would still depend on the mainland. The Kuomintang’s small islands will definitely not be able to become a climate.
So Lin Yifu's decision to travel back to the mainland was carefully considered. , so he brought all the information that could prove his identity and academic qualifications before setting off. Only after the country reads the supporting documents will the country agree to send him to the Department of Economics of Peking University to study.
Because of studying in the Department of Economics at Peking University, Lin Yifu met his mentor Schultz and finally had the opportunity to become a member of China's top "think tank". It turns out that the life route of his 43 years of traveling back to the mainland has been in his plan.
