A female graduate student named Li Yifei at Xi'an Jiaotong University became popular because of an impassioned speech. This dulcimer specialty student switched to nuclear physics, and finally entered a good unit in the system smoothly. Originally, all kinds of media were full of praise for her, but now they are silent one by one.
At the beginning of July, Li Yifei's name crossed like a meteor. She is a graduate student in the Laboratory of Computational Physics for Nuclear Engineering, School of Energy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and her original major was music-dulcimer performance. It is a traditional Chinese instrument that sits at a low wooden table and is beaten with a small bamboo mallet.
By chance, she gave a speech at the school's graduation ceremony, expressing her ambition for the future and contributing to the country's nuclear safety cause by taking root in the west. These words earned everyone's tears and made her a celebrity overnight.
As her fame grew, some details were unearthed. Li Yifei was originally an art student, and was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University with extra points in art. Then she changed her major during college and jumped to the highly professional field of nuclear physics, with excellent grades.
This is an inspirational story, but when you dig deeper into her academic achievements, you find that things are not as glamorous as they seem. Although Li Yifei's graduation thesis and project look good in terms of quantity, her results are actually a bit thin compared to other outstanding graduates of the same period. There are even rumors that these achievements were actually "transferred" to her by her mentor for other brothers and sisters.
Although Li Yifei promised in her speech to take root in the west and dedicate her strength, in the end she chose to enter the Northwest Nuclear Security Center of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense in the downtown area of Xi'an, a relatively advantageous position. This contrast has made countless graduates who are truly rooted in remote areas feel unfair.
Li Yifei himself and Xi'an Jiaotong University both chose to remain silent in the face of this matter. The original report on this inspirational story has now been deleted, as if it had never happened. This behavior is in stark contrast to the "digging enthusiasm" of the media in some previous incidents.
Some people support Li Yifei, feeling that she is just using the existing rules to fight for her best interests, and many more people criticize her for using her own advantages and resources to ignore professional respect and academic integrity.
Some attentive people asked, why did those media that originally actively reported Li Yifei choose to remain silent now? Is this collective loss of voice out of fear of power or is there something else hidden?