Chu Jian, a genius scientist, became a professor at Zhejiang University at the age of only 30, and then founded Supcon Technology Group, which was rated by the media as "the first person in China's automation industry".
However, it was such a proud son of heaven, a great entrepreneur, who was reported for "embezzlement" of 130 million yuan in 2013 and faced imprisonment.
But after such a person was imprisoned, 800 teachers and students guaranteed him, and a year after his release from prison, he received 27.58 million project support from the state.
What's all going on here? Where did Zhu Jian's charge of "embezzlement" come from?
Anonymous reporting, jail time
In 2013, Zhu Jian was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at this time he held many titles such as scientist, university professor, and well-known entrepreneur, and his career reached its peak.
However, the prosperity declined, and a few days before Academician Zhu Jian's defense, an anonymous report letter made his life take a sharp turn.
The letter alleges that Zhu Jian took advantage of his position to embezzle state-owned assets, embezzlement of public funds, and transfer of property overseas.
The whistleblower not only collected Zhu Jian's "six major crimes" in the report letter, but also spread the letter on a large scale, and the university leaders and hundreds of professors all had a copy.
As soon as the report letter came out, there was a lot of discussion on the Internet,
The central government had to immediately send an investigation team to Zhejiang University to conduct a large-scale search, and he himself was taken away by the police to await the results of the investigation.
After Zhu Jian was detained, the investigation team inspected for two months and issued a total of 34 audit sheets, but found no evidence of corruption or transfer of assets by Zhu Jian.
But even so, Zhu Jian was detained for a year,
A year later, the procuratorate prosecuted Zhu Jian on charges of embezzling public funds and embezzling scientific research funds by taking advantage of his position.
However, many people do not approve of the crime against which Zhu Jian was prosecuted, because the first half of his life can be said to be incompatible with "corruption".
The talented boy returns from school
Zhu Jian was born in 1963 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province to a Kochi family, he showed intelligence and talent beyond his peers from an early age.
When peers are still laughing and playing and need to be disciplined by the teacher, Zhu Jian will already take the initiative to learn knowledge, and even the content of the teacher during class can be remembered once and can draw inferences.
After the teacher discovered Zhu Jian's learning talent, he often sighed that he was a rare good seedling, and he cultivated him wholeheartedly.
Jian parents are still very confident in their children's abilities.
So in the fifth grade of primary school, other students were still taking the primary school curriculum, and Zhu Jian had already begun to teach himself junior high school knowledge, the key is that he still learned very thoroughly, and even the school's test results have always been among the best.
In this way, Zhu Jian jumped all the way to high school by relying on talent and hard work,
In 1977, the mainland resumed the college entrance examination, and Zhu Jian, who was only 15 years old, was admitted to the automation major of Zhejiang University with his own ability, and became a sensational genius teenager in the school for a while.
After being admitted to university, Zhu Jian did not slack off, he was already smart, and he was very studious, and his tutor was also very fond of this talented student, often guiding him in academic difficulties.
Under the recommendation of the mentor, Zhujian, who has excellent character and learning, soon ushered in a very rare opportunity.
It was also a huge turning point in his life, that is, he went to study at Kyoto University in Japan at public expense.
Different from China's fledgling science and technology, Japan's economic development at that time was rapid, and its scientific research strength was also very strong, especially the automation industry reached the international leading level.
Therefore, after Zhu Jian arrived at Kyoto University, he was mentored by Professor Goichiro Takamatsu, who represented the highest authority on automatic control in Japan at that time.
Finally, under the guidance of his mentor, Zhu Jian completed his studies in Japan and obtained a doctorate, becoming the first talent jointly trained in the field of automation between China and Japan.
Having seen the developed and leading automation industry in Japan, Zhu Jiancai deeply realized the shortcomings of the mainland in this regard.
So after returning to China, he devoted himself to the construction of China's automation field, and his talent in this field is vividly reflected.
In just three years after returning to China, Zhu Jian won 9 national science and technology progress awards.
In 1993, he became a full professor at Zhejiang University and a supervisor for doctoral students, just 30 years old.
After becoming a professor, Zhu Jian devoted all his knowledge in the field of science and technology to each other, just to cultivate more scientific research talents for the country.
Independent entrepreneurship, rejuvenation of the country through science and education
If you just become a professor in school and train talents for the country, then Zhujian's life will probably always be dull and smooth,
But he is not a person who likes to do research with a stuffy head, and he is not ordinary,
So with the support of Zhejiang University, he took his savings and 200,000 scholarships to start an automation company.
This automation company is affiliated with Zhejiang University, and its main research is industrial automation control systems, the so-called industrial "brain".
Why study this system, the reason is also very simple, automatic control systems are not only industrial "brains", but also widely used in daily life,
For example, the traffic lights at the intersection, the water and electricity that are usually needed, navigation, etc. need to be controlled by the system.
However, such an important technology has been monopolized by Western countries, such as the German Siemens Group.
At that time, the mainland did not have an automatic control system with independent property rights, and almost all the automatic control systems used in the domestic industry relied on imports, which was equivalent to handing over its own industrial lifeline to others.
Therefore, the research and development of this system is of great significance to the industrial safety of the mainland, and can also prosper the domestic automation industry.
However, it is not easy to develop your own automatic control system, after all, we did not know anything about this technology before this, and the research could only start from scratch.
Even if Zhujian is talented and capable, it is difficult to start from scratch.
But fortunately, Zhu Jian is not a person who gives up lightly, he leads the company's researchers to study day and night, and constantly overcome difficulties.
After decades of difficult research, it finally developed an automated control system that belongs entirely to China, which has broken the foreign technology monopoly and directly saved the mainland nearly 40 billion yuan in imported equipment funds.
The automatic control system developed by Zhujian was soon used in major national enterprises.
His automation company also made huge profits by selling this system, becoming the current Central Control Technology Group.
The state also attaches great importance to Zhujian's research and development results, and directly lists the Supcon Group he founded as one of the companies prohibited from being acquired by foreign capital.
And the rise of the Central Control Group has also become the fuse for his imprisonment.
After Zhu Jian was prosecuted, people cried out for him,
There are also 4 academicians of the National Academy of Engineering who jointly signed his letter, and in the subsequent release on bail pending trial, the number of Zhejiang teachers and students who guaranteed him reached 800.
They felt that extraordinary things were extraordinary in extraordinary times, and at that time, there were no particularly clear and clear relevant regulations on the misappropriation of scientific research funds and state-owned assets.
Therefore, it is understandable that Zhu Jian has done something that is not in line with the current law for the sake of scientific research.
In the face of social doubts, the procuratorate revealed that all of Zhu Jian's accusations still came from the Central Control Group he founded.
At the beginning, Zhujian founded the group to revitalize China's backward automation industry, so at the beginning of its establishment, the central control group was hung under the name of Zhejiang University, even if Zhujian himself funded, it was still a state-owned asset.
However, later, with the continuous expansion of the Central Control Group, Zhejiang University could no longer meet the development needs of the enterprise, so Zhu Jian used 29.5 million yuan to change the group from a school enterprise to a private enterprise.
That is, in the process of changing the nature of assets, Zhu Jian has some illegal behaviors,
For example, he has three equity transfer agreements of more than 1 million yuan in the central control group, all of which have not been approved by the process.
and when changing the group's assets, nearly 65.79 million yuan of public funds were defrauded through the transfer of equity at a low price.
However, Zhujian did not admit to these charges, and during his detention he has been asking for an appeal to defend himself, and his family and colleagues have come forward to defend him.
The vice president of Supcon Group said that as the founder of the group, Zhu Jian pays tens of millions of dividends every year, but he only takes hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to supplement his family, and the rest is all invested in automation research.
You must know that Zhu Jian's family still lives in a small apartment in Hangzhou, and his travel is by bus, if he embezzled these public funds for his own personal gain, I am afraid that he would have already lived in a villa.
But no matter how many people called Qu, Zhu Jian still did not gain freedom,
During his nine months in detention, he was denied access to anyone, including his lawyer, and his family's repeated bail grants were rejected one by one.
Even the trial was postponed seven times and never started.
Zhu Jian, as a leader in the field of automation in the mainland, has been forced to stop automation research in China since he was imprisoned, causing huge losses to the mainland.
And his affairs have been widely concerned, and finally under the deadlock of all parties, he was detained for three whole years.
The procuratorate was also unwilling to let such a person who had made significant contributions to scientific research to the country be locked up all the time, so it had many conversations with Zhu Jian,
After months of persuasion, for the sake of his family, Zhu Jian still chose to confess.
So in 2017, Zhujian's corruption case finally went to trial,
The prosecutor changed his original "six counts" to embezzlement and intentional destruction of accounting documents, two counts.
The amount of embezzlement was also changed from 130 million yuan to 2.38 million yuan, and finally Zhu Jian was sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison, minus the 3 years he was detained during the investigation.
In January 2017, Zhu Jian was released from prison after completing his sentence and finally gained his freedom.
Regardless of the past, there is a comeback
In the past few years when Zhu Jian was imprisoned, the Central Control Group can be described as fragmented,
In just a few months, the equity has changed 6 times, and even the two subsidiaries with the highest value have been sold at a low price.
However, the two companies were taken over by a listed company with a foreign background, which brought the development of China's automation control industry to a standstill again.
And Zhu Jian's imprisonment in recent years did not wear out his will, nor did it extinguish his patriotism,
After he was released from prison, he took back his nominee shares from friends and became the actual controller of the Central Holding Group again.
In December 2017, after sufficient preparation, Zhu Jian appeared at the second World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference and officially announced his return.
And this return, he personally announced the future research and development direction of SUPCON Group, that is, the new industrial operating system - supOS!
The new research project proposed by Zhu Jian is of great significance to the industrial automation of mainland China.
Therefore, it is also listed as one of the key research and development projects in the mainland, and in order to show support for the project, the state also allocated 27.58 million yuan to Zhujian in 2018.
Under the leadership of Zhu Jian, SUPCON Group also revived its glory and successfully went public in 2020.
From a genius boy to an entrepreneur, scientist, educator full of honor, but finally imprisoned because of a momentary accident, Zhu Jian's life has been brilliant and lonely,
But no matter what the circumstances are, Zhujian has never forgotten his original intention, insisted on his dreams, fought for his faith and the prosperity of his country, and finally became a leader in the industry and a person looked up to by many aspiring young people.