Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Fake Foreign Doctors Are Really "Flickering"

"Dr. of Yale University" Shen Zhenlin was appointed as the vice president of the publishing house by the leader who valued him. When the vice president "fooled" himself as a Chinese-American and published 98 professional books, suspicious eyes gradually gathered around him.An internal report letter brought the judiciary into the investigation of the whole incident.It turned out that Shen Zhenlin, the vice president who advertised himself as a "high-achieving student at Yale University", was actually just a stowaway who graduated from high school.What is even more ironic is that Shen Zhenlin was suspected of using illegal means to embezzle nearly 590,000 yuan in manuscript fees from the publishing house. On November 15, 2006, Shen Zhenlin was sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption by the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court.And Ms. Qin, the president of the publishing house who introduced Shen Zhenlin as a talent, was also dismissed for leading wolves into the house!

Shen Zhenlin reminds us of Fang Hongjian, the tragic character portrayed by Mr. Qian Zhongshu in the novel.Fang Hongjian went to Europe for "study tour" for 4 years. Before returning to China, he bought a doctoral degree from "Clayton University", but Fang Hongjian was not as good at fooling around as Shen Zhenlin.What is even more sad is that fake "sea turtles" and fake doctors like Shen Zhenlin are emerging one after another, and this is what we need to be more vigilant about. Smuggled immigrants to the United States, Yale University sweeps the streets Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province is located on the affluent Hangjiahu Plain. It is one of the most affluent counties in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. The famous Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant is built here.The biggest feature of Haiyan County is that it faces the sea. Therefore, although the local area is a wealthy place in Zhejiang and even one of the top 100 counties in China, many local people are not satisfied with eating in the soil with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky. The blue sea.

Beyond the sea is the ocean, and on the other side of the ocean is the United States full of gold. In 1989, after graduating from high school, 19-year-old Shen Zhenlin, a farm boy, was unwilling to be a farmer for the rest of his life like his parents did. He followed the turbulent wave of smuggling and was stuffed into the closed cabin of a small fishing boat by snakeheads. He came to the United States through all kinds of difficulties and dangers. Although Shen Zhenlin has the unique brains and perseverance of Zhejiang people, he discovered after arriving in the United States that the snakeheads did not send him to New York, San Francisco and other big cities he yearned for, but threw them to Connecticut, USA He had never heard of this place before, and of course, he hadn't seen gold everywhere.

However, the discouraged Shen Zhenlin soon found a familiar name "Yale University" in Haven City.Of course he knows that Yale University is a world-class prestigious school, and Yale University has produced five US presidents.Therefore, Shen Zhenlin set his sights on Yale University.Because Shen Zhenlin understands that if he is in American society, his identity as a snake can easily be discovered by the police and he will be sent back to China. If he is in a relatively closed university, he will be much safer. However, in a place like Yale University where there are so many talents, how does Shen Zhenlin, a Chinese farmer with only a high school education, survive?Of course, this couldn't help him, so, under the recommendation of the local Chinese, Shen Zhenlin became a cleaner at Yale University, and he did this for 10 years.Later, Shen Zhenlin compared his experience of the past 10 years to "taste the courage".

Yale University has a long history of educational exchanges with China. As early as 1854, Chinese student Yung Wing received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and became the first Chinese to receive a degree from an American university.Zhan Tianyou, a famous railway expert, completed his studies in railway engineering at Yale University in the United States and worked as an engineer in China Railway Company in 1888.On the Yale campus, Chinese students and scholars are also the largest group of international students, about 500 people. There are also many students who go to school and work part-time. Therefore, almost no one regards Shen Zhenlin at Yale University as a stowaway. as an international student.

The Yale campus is quiet and beautiful, with a pleasant environment, and is known as "the most beautiful campus in the United States".The beautiful Gothic architecture and Georgian architecture complement each other with modern architecture, embellishing the entire campus very classical and beautiful.Of course, the beauty of Yale University is also due to Shen Zhenlin, because he is an excellent cleaner who has worked for 10 years. If Shen Zhenlin is only satisfied with being a cleaner, then he is not Shen Zhenlin.Shen Zhenlin's biggest dream is to get rich.The talented and intelligent Shen Zhenlin quickly passed the English test and began to work and live at Yale University with ease.The work of cleaners is not tiring. How to pass the time after work? Shen Zhenlin found that Yale University is open to teaching, and many courses can be attended.So, he began to linger in the classroom of various lectures.

After auditing a lot of courses, Shen Zhenlin is particularly keen on computer courses.Because Shen Zhenlin, who lives in the United States, is keen on the Internet, he often goes online to chat in some domestic chat rooms. Additional computer knowledge is required.Moreover, the computer technology in the United States is the most advanced in the world. He hopes that he can have a skill. Whether he is in the United States or returning to China in the future, knowing some professional knowledge is the capital of his life. In order to learn computer knowledge, Shen Zhenlin not only audited at Yale University, but also went to Stanford University in Silicon Valley, California, USA to audit computer courses.Objectively speaking, Shen Zhenlin does have a certain amount of computer knowledge after auditing many courses ranging from master's degree to doctoral degree, but this knowledge is only superficial for real experts.

During the auditing process, Shen Zhenlin finally discovered "business opportunities". Many teachers and students of Yale University have published monographs in various fields.In the United States, the remuneration for publishing books is quite considerable. Compared with being a cleaner, it is decent and profitable.And on the ubiquitous network, downloading various articles and materials is really easy. But these are just ideas. In the United States, where intellectual property protection is very complete, Shen Zhenlin is not so foolish as to use other people's things to publish books in a publishing house as a human snake, which is more dangerous than a mouse being a cat's escort.However, in his chat with the president of a domestic publishing house, this idea began to slowly become a reality.

Returned to China and took office, became the vice president for two years At the beginning of 1999, in the 10th year since Shen Zhenlin smuggled to the United States, his life suddenly turned around.Because Shen Zhenlin knew that it was not enough to swindle money by publishing books in the United States, he wanted to try his luck in China, so he began to contact some domestic publishing houses through the Internet, and submitted his "manuscripts" to various publishing houses. Domestic publishing houses quickly responded. During an online chat, Shen Zhenlin met Ms. Qin who was the president of Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House at the time.During the chat, Shen Zhenlin, who is already quite fluent in English, claimed to be a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University when he introduced his identity.When Ms. Qin heard that she was interested, as the leader of the publishing house, she was worrying about the development of publishing books on computers. When Shen Zhenlin heard the news, she claimed that many academic articles had been published in mainstream academic media in the United States. , is currently writing several books on computers, and boasted that his books will definitely sell well in China.Of course, during this chat, Shen Zhenlin also told Ms. Qin the professional vocabulary he had listened to from time to time, and he fooled Ms. Qin as if she had met a "savior".

In order to prove that he really has considerable computer skills, Shen Zhenlin sent Ms. Qin some academic articles downloaded from the Internet and done some technical processing, which made Ms. Qin admire her.Shen Zhenlin also boasted that he has many teachers and classmates at Yale University and Stanford University, all of whom are experts in computer science, and he can invite them to write books for the publishing house.When Ms. Qin learned that Shen Zhenlin had studied in the United States for 10 years and was about to graduate with a Ph. The manuscript returned to China.The elated Shen Zhenlin had no reason not to agree. He didn't even care about making a fake doctoral degree like Fang Hongjian did. Shen Zhenlin, who had no official identity, had to repeat the old trick and smuggled back to China.

Of course, when Shen Zhenlin returned to China, he did not forget to collect many articles and put together several so-called monographs.Of course, laymen cannot see these monographs, and even experts can hardly find the flaws in them, because Shen Zhenlin is sure that the contents of this book have never appeared in China. In May 1999, Ms. Qin met Shen Zhenlin who had just returned to China in Beijing, and immediately hosted a banquet for this "young talent" who "served the motherland". "Dr. Returnee" returned to China to work in an unknown publishing house. For Ms. Qin, Bole, she couldn't help but be overjoyed.And when Shen Zhenlin of "Dr. During the chat with Shen Zhenlin at the banquet, Ms. Qin suddenly learned from Shen Zhenlin that Shen Zhenlin was born in a prominent family, "My parents owned a shipyard in the United States, owned manors, sports cars, and luxury yachts, and they returned to China because they were moved by your sincerity. Inauguration".This kind of "patriotism" that is not moved by money moved Ms. Qin very much.Of course, Shen Zhenlin talked eloquently about his 10 years of overseas life, and also talked about his understanding of the development of the domestic computer industry, which opened Ms. Qin's eyes even more. During the dinner, Ms. Qin did not forget to ask to see Shen Zhenlin's passport and doctoral degree certificate.However, Shen Zhenlin just said lightly: "For safety, I put my passport in the safe of Shanghai Citibank." In order to cover himself, Shen Zhenlin immediately took out his manuscript.Ms. Qin, who was worried about the lack of computer-related manuscripts in the publishing house, after reading Shen Zhenlin's "manuscripts brought back from the United States", was as excited as discovering Maxima, and immediately decided to publish.Of course, she never cared about pursuing the issue of Shen Zhenlin's passport and other incomplete identity certificates. In August 1999, Shen Zhenlin, a "Yale doctoral student" who returned to China to start a business, applied to Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House. Shen Zhenlin was 29 years old at the time. The name of a well-known American university gave Shen Zhenlin a lot of color. He not only fooled Ms. Qin, but also fooled his colleagues in the publishing house.After the manuscript he put together was successfully published, Shen Zhenlin found that not only could he not make more money by "creating" by himself, but it was also difficult to get ahead in the publishing house.So, he began to contact "Yale University's mentors and fellow apprentices" frequently, asking them to give them masterpieces, and of course the remuneration is very generous.In this way, in the two years since joining Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House, Shen Zhenlin has edited and published 98 kinds of books in the publishing house, almost setting a record for the publishing house. Of course, these books have also brought certain economic benefits to the publishing house. benefit.Soon after arriving at the publishing house, Shen Zhenlin became the assistant to the president, and was appointed as the vice president in charge of drafting less than two years later. Of course, no one knew the inside story of these books at the time.These books were actually pieced together by Shen Zhenlin downloaded from the Internet. Moreover, Shen Zhenlin fabricated the author of the books and paid a huge amount of remuneration from the publishing house into his own pocket.However, after two full years, no one noticed. During his work in the publishing house, Shen Zhenlin showed a very strong draft and editing ability, which was appreciated by Ms. Qin and other leaders.Due to the repeated admiration of the "thousand-mile horse" by the president, Ms. Qin, Shen Zhenlin was once quite influential in the publishing house.Especially after Shen Zhenlin became the assistant to the president, although the power of the assistant can be great or small, when he was young, he was only responsible for uploading and delivering, and when he was old, he could also act as the leader, but Shen Zhenlin treated the assistant like a president. In March 2001, Shen Zhenlin, who had worked in the publishing house for less than two years, was appointed as the vice president. He was responsible for the planning and publication of Chinese and English topics on programming and network, as well as handling the daily affairs of the publishing house. . Colleagues reported the fake foreign devils In fact, when Shen Zhenlin was in high spirits at the publishing house, many employees of the publishing house once reminded the president, Ms. Opinion, and then simply went against the odds and appointed Shen Zhenlin as the vice president. Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House undertakes three development tasks in the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" national key electronic publication planning project: computer knowledge popularization series, national computer grade examination textbook series and computer animation textbook series.Under the planning of Shen Zhenlin, computer network experts from Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my country's network experts "co-authored" many online books. Because of the famous foreign universities as signs, these books have become best-selling brands in the market . Ms. Qin never thought that Shen Zhenlin was not idle after joining the publishing house. In a year and a half, he downloaded and published 98 kinds of computer books from various places on the Internet. Written by Brother et al.According to Shen Zhenlin's fictitious book author, the publishing house paid 540,000 yuan for the manuscript, and Shen Zhenlin "smiled" all of it and put it into his own pocket. Because none of the manuscripts used by Shen Zhenlin has been authorized or approved by the original copyright owner, the publisher has also received a letter from a lawyer from an American company accusing it of copyright infringement.However, this still did not attract enough attention from relevant leaders such as Ms. Qin. If Shen Zhenlin, who is constantly promoted, can restrain himself and hide himself deeper, maybe he can continue to hang out in the publishing house.However, on the one hand, Shen Zhenlin plagiarized other people's works to make money and put them in his own pocket, and on the other hand, after becoming the vice president, he boasted everywhere that he was a "Chinese American".The "Dr. Yale" whose identity was increasingly hanging gradually aroused the suspicion of other employees of the publishing house.Some of Shen Zhenlin's colleagues began to try to find the list of Yale graduates on the Internet, but they did not find Shen Zhenlin's name. Some colleagues even jokingly exclaimed, "It can't be fake."I don't know if there is doubt about Shen Zhenlin's identity. Although the document for appointing Shen Zhenlin as the vice president has been issued, the higher-level unit has not approved the appointment. Shen Zhenlin's identity was more and more suspected by his colleagues. In May 2002, the insiders of the publishing house delivered a report letter exposing Shen Zhenlin's false identity to the judiciary. After investigation by the judiciary, Shen Zhenlin's true identity was revealed.In front of investigators, Shen Zhenlin confessed his true identity.After the truth came out, Shen Zhenlin realized that he could no longer stay in the publishing house. In June 2002, he quietly left the publishing house. Shen Zhenlin's false identity has attracted great attention from the superior authorities of the publishing house, and they quickly formed an audit team to audit all the financial accounts of the publishing house during Shen Zhenlin's work. With the deepening of the audit, Shen Zhenlin's problems gradually emerged.After the investigative agency intervened, they were surprised to find that the 98 books edited and published by Shen Zhenlin were all academic works downloaded from the Internet.Shen Zhenlin’s method of corruption was firstly to sign a false manuscript collection contract, and then, on the pretext of paying the manuscript collection fee to the manuscript collector, receive a transfer check from the publishing house and convert it into cash, and keep it as his own; The shopping invoices issued were brought back to the publishing house for full reimbursement; the third was to take the false car decoration service fee back to the publishing house for full reimbursement, and took the reimbursement income as his own.In addition, Shen Zhenlin is also suspected of taking personal consumption invoices back to the publishing house for reimbursement many times.When these items were summed up, Shen Zhenlin took advantage of his position to embezzle a total of 593,430 yuan of public funds of his unit. False identity has thus become a criminal case, which immediately attracted the attention of all parties.Because of her inescapable responsibility for the appointment of Shen Zhenlin and serious dereliction of duty, Ms. Qin was removed from her post by her superior unit.In order to recover the lost state-owned assets as soon as possible, the publishing house quickly reported the case to the public security organ. In March 2004, the public security organ decided to file a case for investigation into Shen Zhenlin's suspected occupational occupation. One day in January 2006, when Shen Zhenlin stepped off the plane from Beijing Capital International Airport, he was captured by the public security officers who had been waiting for a long time, and the case was immediately handed over to the anti-corruption department of the procuratorate for further investigation. Beyond, the original form is actually Fang Hongjian Fang Hongjian, the tragic character portrayed by Mr. Qian Zhongshu in the novel, is the son of a gentry from the south of the Yangtze River. When he was in college in Peking, he could not study civil engineering, so he transferred to the Department of Sociology, and finally transferred to the Department of Chinese Literature and barely graduated.With the help of my future husband, I embarked on the road of studying abroad, but when I arrived in Europe, I changed three universities, London, Paris, and Berlin in four years; I listened to a few homework at random, and I had a lot of interests, but I had nothing to learn, except for rhetoric In addition, he had nothing, and when he was about to return to China, under the threat of his father and husband-in-law, he tried his best to buy a doctoral degree from "Clayton University in the United States" in order to deal with it. There are many reasons for Fang Hongjian's tragedy. The biggest characteristic of Fang Hongjian's character is that he lacks the rationality, belief, enthusiasm and strength to fight against the cruel survival competition and serious spiritual crisis in the society.Fang Hongjian only had the desire itself, but what he didn't have was the real driving force to turn the desire into practice. After returning to China, he endured humiliation and compromised. He failed to change his destiny in the face of adversity, which determined his tragic life. However, Shen Zhenlin, who was also born in the south of the Yangtze River, not only possessed all kinds of desires, but also turned his own desires into a powerful driving force for deception, and unabashedly snatched wealth and status that did not belong to him. Ms. Qin, who was born in China, finally fooled herself into prison.This may be a tragedy that Shen Zhenlin did not expect. Fang Hung-chien described the doctoral degree as "like the leaf on the lower body of Eve and Adam".Fang Hung-chien faked it because he "had to buy a fake diploma and confess it to his family." In order to hide his clumsiness, he also pretended to say in a letter from home that "the most hated 'doctor' in my life is not exempt from vulgarity, and it is not humane." He also has a truly frank side. In the Sanlv University registration form he applied for, he truthfully stated that he had not received a degree and was just a "student". , Just now I felt that I had lied and had to speak my conscience, what a fool, so I only got an associate professor who "helped out with chores". Fang Hongjian experienced ups and downs when he returned to China to seek a job. At first, he relied on his father-in-law to help him work as a bank clerk, and then he went to a university as an associate professor and was dismissed.Although Fang Hongjian was pathetic, he wasn't hateful. After all, he didn't go around cheating, and he was ashamed to buy a fake doctor.However, not only was Shen Zhenlin too lazy to buy a fake diploma, but he also boasted that his father, who was farming in the countryside of Zhejiang Province, was a "rich American" who owned a luxury yacht. He also defrauded him of 590,000 yuan.Shen Zhenlin's face of a blatant liar would probably surprise Mr. Qian Zhongshu.We have reasons to believe that if old Mr. Qian knew about it, he would never have expected such a fool to come. In just two years, from a cleaner to a vice president of a publishing house, unfortunately, this is just a scam full of absurdity.The story of the liar Shen Zhenlin is very simple, even a bit clichéd.In desperation, we had no choice but to ask: Why did the liar succeed?The reason why the scammers succeeded was that there were two problems with this publishing house.First, when introducing and promoting talents, irrational factors overwhelm institutional factors; second, in terms of business, there seems to be no standardized system. Strictly prevent fooling, and also wear "rings" for "turtles" The public prosecution agency charged that from 2001 to 2002, Shen Zhenlin used the method of signing a false manuscript collection contract with the publishing house to embezzle more than 540,000 yuan of manuscript fees and 50,000 yuan of public funds on the pretext of paying royalties to the manuscript contributors.In the courtroom of the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, Shen Zhenlin, who had a gentle appearance, was asked about his education by the judge. Shen Zhenlin emphasized that he was "a high school in China".Regarding the criminal facts charged in the indictment, Shen Zhenlin put all the blame on Ms. Qin, the president of the publishing house who introduced him back then. He repeatedly argued that "Ms. Qin gave me the money, and I only listen to Mr. Qin's arrangements." Even Shen Zhenlin said that "Teacher Qin allowed it" when he purchased personal items and was reimbursed by the unit.These words of Shen Zhenlin made Ms. Qin feel chilled, and finally let Ms. Qin see the "inhumanity" of Shen Zhenlin, a liar.During the trial, Ms. Qin issued a testimony denying that she knew of Shen Zhenlin's actions. After two trials by the People's Court of Haidian District, Beijing and the No. 1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, the court held that Shen Zhenlin, as a person in charge of operation and management in a state-owned enterprise, took advantage of his position to defraud his unit of public funds. The behavior has constituted a crime of corruption and should be punished according to law. On November 15, 2006, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court finally sentenced Shen Zhenlin to 13 years in prison for corruption.At the same time, the court ordered that more than 360,000 yuan be seized and returned to Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House, and the defendant Shen Zhenlin was ordered to refund more than 220,000 yuan to be returned to Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House. How can a fake foreign doctor pretended to be by a cleaner with only high school education to fool the president of the publishing house and colleagues?At present, it is not difficult to check one's identity and diploma. Whether the books "contributing manuscripts" are original or pirated, it is easy to find out the truth on the Internet or by telephone, but Beijing Hope Electronic Publishing House just disdains this. .Because Shen Zhenlin has a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University, and because he was personally recommended by the president, everyone was dazzled by the brilliance of the prestigious school and succumbed to the authority of the leader. Willingly being fooled.For the 98 kinds of computer books published by the "collection" in one and a half years, everyone can only envy and red-eyed. If the publishing house has a standardized system when introducing talents, then it must have a set of requirements for Shen Zhenlin's identity, experience, and education.If things are done according to the system, there is a set of procedures from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of Education for the certification of foreign qualifications, especially the certification of famous schools like Yale University. His name was not found in the list, but why hadn't the publisher thought of this in the first place?It was simply because the leader had a good impression of Shen Zhenlin, and he had the halo of "Dr. Foreigner" on his head.Whether it is because of "eyes" or because of the awe of the aura of "Dr. Foreign", anyway, under the influence of such irrational factors, all procedures and systems have been left behind.On this point, it does not mean that cleaners cannot be vice presidents, but that everything must go through formal procedures.In these two important links, the system is vulnerable to irrationality such as favors and blind worship. In addition, the financial system is not perfect, so it is not surprising that scammers succeed.Is the situation that irrational factors overwhelm the system unique to this publishing house? Scandals of overseas Chinese cheating in Chinese academia continue to spread.The report on "Hanxin No. 1" attracted the most attention. Chen Jin, a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University and the dean of the School of Microelectronics, bought the chip back from the United States, rubbed off its logo, and then added the "Hanxin" logo, even if it was a "Hanxin" chip. Development" was successful.This kind of behavior can deceive academic committees at all levels, and obtain national key scientific and technological research projects, as well as a large amount of funds allocated by relevant institutions. This reminds me of another very similar case.A medical school introduced a returnee. It is said that he is very influential in DNA research and has obtained a patent in the United States.In fact, this person had a mediocre performance before and had no achievements overseas, but he was regarded as an important scientific and technological backbone and became an "academic leader" and applied for a considerable amount of "scientific and technological research funds" from the government.The person's true face was later revealed, but the supervisor said privately, "Actually, we also know that this person has problems and is suspected of being a fake. But in order to get the project funded by the state, let him perform a show first." This is the crux of the problem. He clearly knows that this person has problems, but he can't control the fraud in applying for funding in order to brag about it.In media reports, we also saw many "fake foreign devils" like Shen Zhenlin. China's economy has developed rapidly, so it has attracted the covetousness of some so-called returnees who are ignorant.They came back to China under various guises, using their identities as professors or scholars at some of the so-called prestigious universities that Chinese people like most to deceive people and gain benefits.At present, some of our government agencies, universities, research institutions and academic units often boast hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to invite well-known overseas experts and scholars as "guests". It seems that when they invite "returnees", they invite academics, Knowledge and technology, please enter the God of Wealth.Blindly "worshiping foreigners" and blindly introducing talents, not being fooled by fake Yale doctors, is probably the real strange thing. "Sea turtles" should be more "valuable" than hairy crabs, right?But nowadays, when buying hairy crabs, you have to check whether there is an "anti-counterfeit ring". How can the introduction of "sea turtles" be so rash?Looking at the irony of the "fake turtle" farce, and seeing so many "sea turtles" turning into "kelp", it's time for us to polish our glasses.