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Recently, the news that a doctor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences resigned and went to work has been widely circulated on the Internet and attracted a lot of attention. Many people criticize him for only looking at money, but if you were him, how would you choose?
A salary of 9,000 cannot retain a doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
In the past two days, a video titled "Oral Accounts of Resigners from the Chinese Academy of Sciences" has become popular on the Internet. The content of the video
is that a former researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who graduated with a Ph.D. said that his monthly salary at his original employer was only 9,000 yuan. He said that even if he retired, he would not be considered an associate researcher. Someone offered him an annual salary of one million yuan, so he left decisively. The video
quickly became popular, and one of the most popular comments was, "Today's scientific researchers are no longer like the older generation, they only care about money." The comment also received more than 3,000 likes.
Speaking of which, the older generation of scientific researchers seem to be more "comfortable in poverty and happy in poverty".
Take Wang Jiaqi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated as an undergraduate in 1963 and as a graduate student in 1966. He was not promoted to an assistant researcher until 1979. At that time, Wang Jiaqi was already 39 years old. During the past 16 years, he had two children. The whole family lived in a 15-square-meter tube house. The cooking was done in the corridor and the bathroom was shared. In 1986, he became the director, and his salary was only more than 200 yuan.
Working and living under such difficult conditions is almost a common situation for scientific researchers of Academician Wang’s generation. In comparison, it seems that a doctorate who has a monthly salary of 9,000 yuan but still needs to change jobs seems to have lost the "original intention" of the older generation. Coincidentally, more than one
left
. Before that, there was also an article titled "Confessions of a Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher: Why I chose to leave" that hit the Internet. The article
also tells the story of a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences who left his original unit and went to work in a university. The author of
wrote in the article that he left the Chinese Academy of Sciences for one reason - house, because his children had reached school age, but he could not afford to buy a house in Beijing, and his children could not be assigned to good schools. He had to pay for his children's future. Give up work.
The retired doctor in the article also loves scientific research, but his painstaking research and contribution cannot even make his children receive a good education, so he has to leave the position he loves and bow to life.
There are actually many examples like this. A netizen who claimed to be a former employee of an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences came forward to give his own account. He said that after he left the institute, four or five people in his original department resigned one after another, and two or three others had already found their next job and were ready to leave. The reason is that the institute has begun to cut salaries, and the meager salary cannot support the family or make ends meet.
Why did the researchers leave?
Regarding the resignation of these scientific researchers, Yuan Yaxiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, once said: "We understand their pressure. The Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing has the best scientific research resources and international exchange environment in the country, and it is also a place where outstanding scientific researchers in the country are concentrated. However, "Life in Beijing itself is very stressful, and everyone can feel it."
The sentence "Life in Beijing itself is very stressful" clearly explains the truth. In fact, it’s not that today’s scientific researchers are not as good at living in poverty as the older generation, but because although the pressure of urban life has increased, the research institute has not provided benefits to solve the life pressure of talents.
The life of the older generation of scientific researchers is indeed not easy, but at that time, units were allocated housing, and the iron rice bowl within the system was the envy of everyone. At that time, the so-called feelings were not all feelings, but the unit actually solved the problems for researchers. life needs. Nowadays, researchers are given a monthly salary of several thousand yuan, but they don’t have a house, and their children cannot go to good schools. How can we expect scientific researchers to be able to conduct research with peace of mind and only focus on dedication without asking for reward?
Data from 2017 shows that the state’s current subsidy for doctoral students is 1,000 yuan/month, regardless of region or school level, and is a national standard.As of 2017, what is the level of subsistence allowances in my country? In 2017, Beijing adjusted the relevant standards for social assistance. The urban and rural subsistence allowance standards were adjusted from 800 yuan per capita per household per month to 900 yuan. The standard for identifying low-income households in urban and rural areas was adjusted from 1,050 yuan per capita per month per household to 1,410 yuan.
Hanchuang, a doctoral researcher for nearly 20 years, receives monthly state subsidies that are almost the same as the minimum living allowance. Moreover, it is well known that scientific researchers work long hours and are under great pressure. It is common for them to work more than 10 hours a day and work all night when project or paper deadlines are approaching.
What's more, most of the scientific researchers after doctoral degrees are over 30 years old. Even if they strictly lower their living standards in accordance with the requirements of public opinion, they are willing to be poor and dedicated, and they don't even talk about getting married, having children, and supporting their families. Personal life needs, but it has also reached an age when it is time to pay back a little bit for the years of dedication and training of the parents. When parents in their 50s and 60s fall ill and are hospitalized, their income makes them unable to pay. Who can persist in such a life?
makes scientific researchers who are responsible for changing the world's scientific research development and leading social scientific and technological progress every day have to worry about renting a house, children's schooling, family medical treatment, etc. This is a problem of the entire system, not that they are unwilling to be poor, let alone It’s time to accuse them of “looking at the money.”
Finally, morality is to restrain oneself, not to accuse others.
