[1980s + Pharmaceutical Superpower + Academic Prodigy]
Gu Weigang, a pharmaceutical pioneer of the new millennium, was reborn in 1983 as a student just beginning his internship at Nanjiang Medical College.
That year, foreign pharmaceutical companies monopolized the Huaxia market. A single shot of stomach medicine cost sixty yuan, and black-market fever reducers were sold by the pill. Two months' wages couldn't buy a box, and the poor couldn't afford to get sick.
Luckily, the "Drug Research Workshop" in his mind awakened. The entire synthesis route unfolded before him like a chessboard. He could tell at a glance which step needed heating, when to change the catalyst, and where impurities were getting stuck.
Starting with Old Chen, who couldn't afford stomach medicine at the clinic, he first made cimetidine and priced it at 2.2 yuan, knocking the sixty-yuan imported medicine off its pedestal. Then he made ibuprofen, raising the yield from 48 to 78 percent so families could afford fever medicine for their children.
Cephalosporins, hepatitis B drugs, cancer drugs, immunotherapy... From imitation to original research, from factory floor to laboratory, from catching up to leading the way, he covered in twenty years the ground the West had taken a century to traverse.
He overcame one obstacle after another: multinational pharmaceutical companies closing ranks, patent blockades, and approval processes used to choke off progress. By the time foreign companies realized what was happening, Huaxia's targeted drugs were already being sold around the world.
On the day the Nobel Prize committee called, he was in the factory watching a reaction vessel.
"Telemarketer. Hang up!"
[Reborn in 1983 | Pharmaceutical Research | Academic Prodigy Rises | Crush Foreign Pharma | Build a Strong Industrial Nation | No Romance Obsession | Pure Power Fantasy]
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