Finally, amid applause, Wu Hao ended his speech. In fact, he didn't say much. He just thought about the future development direction of the Biological and Life Sciences Research Center with everyone and boosted everyone's morale.
As for the rest, he did not go into details. In fact, the establishment of this biological and life science research center was very low-key. There was not even a ribbon-cutting ceremony, but just such an inaugural meeting.
The reason for doing this is to reduce the attention of the outside world on this. Although this cannot be hidden from those who are interested, it can at least reduce the excessive 'understanding' of them by the outside world.
Another point is that it is also to keep a low profile. As a newcomer to this field, there is no need to make it known to everyone. Let's wait until we have achieved some results.
In fact, he had already had ideas about establishing a biological and life science research center, but he had always been hesitant. On the one hand, the company has been established for a relatively short period of time and is expanding rapidly. It is not appropriate to enter some industries that it is not good at or does not understand at this stage.
On the other hand, Wu Hao also knows that biology and life sciences will be key areas of human research in the future and also popular areas.
After all, for humans whose living standards are getting better and better, nothing is more important than health. Therefore, life science research and the development of practical medical technologies will be hot areas in the future. Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s talk about a new drug. Although the investment is relatively large, the benefits are also very amazing. Some cancer treatment drugs are extremely expensive, with some even costing tens of thousands of dollars per box, not counting the endless other treatments that are emerging.
In this area, our country has always been at a backward stage in the world. Key drugs and medical technologies like these are monopolized by foreign biomedical giants, and we spend a lot of foreign exchange on imports every year.
But not everyone can afford the high cost of medicine. Although the country and society have made a lot of efforts, many problems have been solved. However, the price of some long-term medications is still very expensive. Even if medical insurance covers part of the cost, some patients still cannot afford it.
Not to mention those drugs that are too expensive to be included in medical insurance. It’s not that I don’t want to include it, it’s that I can’t include it. The prices of these drugs are too expensive. If they are included, it will make the medical insurance fund that is already unable to make ends meet even worse.
In fact, the drug itself is cheap to make. The real reason for its high price is not its production and raw material costs, but its research and development expenses.
The research and development cost of a drug is very high, which not only takes a lot of manpower and material resources, but also takes a lot of time. The research and development cycle of a drug can be as short as three or four years, or as long as more than ten years. This is not even counting on-the-spot experiments. This series itself is an astronomical figure.
If a company spends such a large amount of money to develop a drug, it is natural that it will also use this drug to obtain revenue to cover the cost of research and development. Therefore, it is actually very difficult for drug research and development companies. On the one hand, they have to bear the high cost of drug research and development, and on the other hand, they also have to bear the condemnation and irrational attacks from public opinion.
Logically speaking, companies invent drugs to save patients’ lives, and patients should be grateful. But before life, before the strong desire to survive, these become worthless. Even these companies have become targets of attacks by patients and a punching bag for public condemnation.
Of course, drug R&D companies are also companies, and the purpose of a company's existence is to make profits. There is nothing wrong with selling the 'product' that you have worked so hard to develop. How to sell it and at what price is the freedom of the enterprise. Of course, consumers can choose to buy it or not. But who allowed these 'products' to be related to human lives? Once human lives are involved, then people will no longer be rational to talk about.
By saying so much, I am not trying to overturn the case for drug R&D and production companies. Some companies are indeed showing off their power by relying on the technology patents they have in hand. He even committed numerous crimes, and the amount of blood, tears and lives buried in them may even be lost to count.
So when he first wanted to get involved in this field, he was very entangled. Regardless of whether he did it well or badly, he would be scolded.
When you can't develop and produce something, people will scold you for being useless and a deadbeat. Why can foreign companies come up with it but you can’t? To put it bluntly, it’s useless.
When you develop it, these people will turn around and scold you. Why do you sell a domestic medicine so expensively and eat steamed buns stained with blood?
But a company is a company, not a charity. You can't just make a profit by spending a lot of money to develop a drug.
Although the state has strengthened its support for such biopharmaceutical companies in recent years, it is only a drop in the bucket. Compared with the huge research costs, it is a drop in the bucket and does not have much effect.
So this is actually a very complex problem, and there is still a long way to go to solve it.
But if he doesn't get involved in this field, he is a little unwilling to let the 'knowledge' information in his mind go to waste.
Just watch those suffering from the disease die in despair, or watch indifferently as the foreign biopharmaceutical oligarchs wield the big stick of sky-high-priced drugs to dominate the country.
Everyone will grow old one day, but in terms of money, he has no shortage of it now. Even if he doesn't work now, he still has enough money to squander for several lifetimes.
But after making so much money, he would not be willing to accept it if he ended up lying in bed waiting to die.
The other ones are his parents. In the past two years when he returned home during the Spring Festival, he witnessed with his own eyes that his father and stepmother were getting older year by year. Besides buying more nutritional supplements, what else can he do? This is also what he is thinking about.
Then there is the person around him, Zhang Jun, who can be regarded as his best friend and brother. Because this guy gained too much weight, he was warned by the doctor during the company's physical examination at the beginning of this year. He has severe fatty liver and sinus arrhythmia. In the words of the doctor, if his weight continues to increase like this, his heart will eventually be unable to bear the burden and evolve into obesity heart disease.
The human heart will not increase with the increase in body weight and volume after growth, so when the human body becomes excessively obese, the heart will not be able to bear it. This is like a small horse pulling a large cart, destined to be exhausted. Therefore, many overweight people eventually die of heart disease.
After Wu Hao learned the news, he was thinking, what would he do if one day his relatives or friends had an accident in front of him?
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