Huang Jinxing, vice president of Academia Sinica.

(Photo by reporter Yang Yuanting)

[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] Former Vice President Chen Chien-jen, formerly a distinguished researcher at the Genome Center, was invited by President Tsai Ing-wen to be seconded as the Chief Executive. Today (31st) said that Chen Jianren himself is also an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and the quality and quantity of papers published are the first in my country. He bluntly said that this kind of attack is very unfair to Chen Jianren, and also said that Taiwan’s specially-appointed researchers are far less paid than ordinary professors in Hong Kong. Moreover, the salary of specially-appointed researchers has not been raised since its establishment 30 years ago.

Chen Jianren is a leading figure in the field of public health. He is an academician of the Academia Sinica and once served as the vice president of the Academia Sinica. The number of citations of his papers is the first in the field of biomedicine in the country. After resigning from the vice president, Chen Jianren gave up the courtesy of the vice president and returned to the academy as a special researcher , and now he is seconded to serve as Ge Kui, but he is frequently slandered, and even the blue camp also made nonsense that the Academia Sinica is a unit for raising rice worms, and questioned whether the salary of specially-appointed researchers is too high.

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Huang Jinxing attended the opening tea ceremony of the Academia Sinica booth at the Taipei International Book Fair. After the meeting, he accepted media interviews and said that there would be such doubts. First of all, he was not clear about the background of the Academia Sinica’s appointment of specially-appointed researchers. The reason for the establishment of specially-appointed researchers is that the salary of academic staff in Taiwan is much lower than that of American and Japanese Xinggang, and it is very disadvantageous to compete for international talents. Therefore, during his tenure as the dean, Li Yuanzhe also actively improved the salary of specially-appointed researchers to narrow the salary gap. But in fact Taiwan’s specially-appointed researcher’s salary is only 1/3 of that of the United States, while Hong Kong’s salary for equivalent talents is 4 times that of Academia Sinica, Singapore’s is 3.5 times, and China’s salary is twice that of Taiwan. Insulting, it's very unfair!"

Huang Jinxing revealed that he had been poached by academic institutions in the United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He once calculated how much money he had lost in the past three years, and found that if he accepted the poaching to go abroad, he would now be a small rich man. He said he was an idiot, but Because he loves the land of Taiwan deeply, and love for Taiwan cannot be said with words, but with actual dedication, so he is willing to stay, otherwise the academic circle will understand that as long as he goes to Hong Kong to teach for 10 years, he will earn at least NT$100 million He also lamented that several of his colleagues left Taiwan to do research in Hong Kong or China under the heavy poaching. He lamented that these rare academics only recognized RMB.

Huang Jinxing said that no matter whether the Kuomintang or the Democratic Progressive Party is in power, Academia Sinica has many excellent talents seconded to serve in the government. They donated when they were young, and Chen Jianren himself is a Christian with a deep sense of mission, and he doesn't care about his personal reputation. He also said that due to the intensification of blue-green politics in recent years, many criticisms are very unfair.

Huang Jinxing, vice president of Academia Sinica.

(Photo by reporter Yang Yuanting)