A time traveler full of forward thinking, even if he hides his identity, he will inevitably show his maverick side at work. Before the old factory director left office, Fang Hanmin proposed the short, medium and long-term scientific and technological development plan of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, which is concrete embodiment.
At that time, all senior scientific and technical personnel in the factory, including chief engineer Lao Xia, either thought that Fang Hanmin's plan was too ambitious and unrealistic and could not be turned into reality, or they thought that he was trying to please the leaders by grandstanding.
Faced with a lot of doubts, the old leader Director Yuan looked very calm. He did not rush to express his position, but asked Fang Hanmin a question, "In the near, medium and long-term science and technology development plan, why should we first copy the products of foreign pharmaceutical companies whose patents have expired?" Where are the medicines?”
Fang Hanmin thought for a while, "Let me use an analogy. The development and growth of an enterprise is like the growth of a baby. You must first learn to crawl, then learn to walk, and then you can learn to run. Copying drugs that have expired patents from foreign companies is how babies practice crawling. Process, the future creation of new drugs belongs to the normal walking or running stage, how can a person learn to walk or run before he has learned to crawl?"
The old factory director nodded in agreement, "Yes, that's the truth! But can we create new drugs by copying drugs that have expired patents?"
"That's not necessarily true, but a group of high-quality scientific and technological talents can be cultivated through the imitation process. This is the basis of innovation. Only with the talent foundation can we talk about innovation. However, just like a person's growth, learning to crawl in infancy can only mean His body control and limb coordination have been exercised, laying the foundation for walking and running in the future. As for whether he can become a track and field champion when he grows up, it depends on whether he has that talent."
"Well said! I hope your science and technology development plan can bring a bright future to Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory!" The old factory director has a keen eye and is willing to override the opinions of others. Not only does he fully agree with Fang Hanmin's short-term, mid-term and long-term plan, And before leaving office, he strongly recommended Fang Hanmin to the superior authorities to take over his position.
Despite this, Fang Hanmin was too young after all, and he had no foundation in the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory. In addition, he was often criticized for his shortcomings in academic qualifications. In opposition, other elders, like chief engineer Lao Xia, appear to obey his leadership, but in fact they are resistant.
Just before Fang Hanmin proposed the first step to concretely implement the science and technology development plan, that is, before preparing to implement the trial of generic drugs after patent expiration, at a symposium of scientific and technological personnel throughout the factory, Su Wenquan, the deputy chief of the technical department who had had a problem with Fang Hanmin, said in person Ridiculing Fang Hanmin, "Director Fang, since we want to realize your plan, why not directly develop new drugs? What's the point of making imitations? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
Although the other party had bad intentions, Fang Hanmin disagreed, "Chief Su, you are an old engineer. You must have received systematic professional training in college. You should know that developing new drugs is innovation, and innovation is not building castles in the air!"
"You don't need to say it so tactfully, why don't you just say that innovation is difficult? Since you know how difficult innovation is, aren't the plans you proposed just bluffing for yourself?"
Lao Su's cynicism and unwillingness forced Fang Hanmin into the corner, "Chief Su, if you don't understand the laws of scientific research, please don't jump to conclusions! A baby who hasn't learned to walk yet wants to walk like an adult or Running, don’t you think it’s a fantasy? All innovations in the field of scientific research are based on strong research and development. The imitation of drugs with expired patents is not only to consolidate the foundation of technology research and development, but also to upgrade the products of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory Be prepared. Without imitation, how can we talk about innovation? As an old engineer, have you never heard of this basic logical relationship?"
These words not only pointed out Lao Su's ignorance, but also made the truth very clear. A group of old scientific and technological personnel, including Su Wenquan, no longer raised objections, but their attitude was still not positive. On the contrary, many young scientific and technological personnel were opposed to the implementation. They have great interest in science and technology development planning and raised many questions they were concerned about at the symposium, and Fang Hanmin gave detailed answers to all of them.
After analyzing what happened at that symposium, Fang Hanmin had a plan in mind. He decided to rely entirely on the young scientific and technological personnel in the factory during the specific implementation of the scientific and technological development plan. Those technical veterans had aging knowledge and outdated consciousness. If they have a negative attitude and they are willing to stand by, let them rest on the side.
The two patented drug generic research groups of the technology center established based on this idea are all composed of young people. Although the basic knowledge of young scientific and technological personnel may not be much better than that of the previous generation, they at least have a positive attitude, flexible minds, and awareness. Keeping up with the times, being in the prime of life and full of energy, these factors are conducive to the normal development of generic trials.
Because the old comrades don't care about this matter, Fang Hanmin has not mentioned a word about the trial progress of generic drug development in various meetings since the beginning of the trial. Now that phased results have been achieved, when more resources need to be invested in overall advancement, He convened a special meeting attended by heads of relevant departments and hoped that everyone would work together to launch this generic product into the pharmaceutical market as soon as possible.
Chief Engineer Lao Xia is retiring in less than two years. By the time this drug completes its technical development, is successfully registered, and is launched on the market, he may have left the company and gone home to live in retirement. He does not want to file for generic drugs. Registering to provide help, Fang Hanmin thought it was excusable.
However, the negative attitude of Mr. Xue, the director of the General Engineering Office, made Fang Hanmin feel that he was a little ignorant of current affairs. These old Xue had nothing to do in his position as the director of the General Engineering Office. It could be said that he was just messing around, and he was still enjoying deputy factory-level treatment. Fang Hanmin felt that he was a little ignorant of current affairs. Turning a blind eye, after all, Lao Xue has left the technical position for many years, and it is really difficult for him to be responsible for a specific technical work.
The registration and declaration of generic drugs is a professional administrative work without much technical content. Fang Hanmin asked Lao Xue to be responsible for this work. His original intention was to give him a chance to participate, because he was three or four years younger than Mr. Xia. He cannot retire within three to five years. If he continues to dawdle, he will not be competitive if he encounters the opportunity to be promoted to a professional title or position in the future.
Fang Hanmin believes that if under the leadership of Lao Xue, this generic drug is filed and registered with the regulatory authorities, it will be considered his contribution to the generic drug project. If the project receives any honors in the future, it will naturally be attributed to Lao Xue. This is a dream for a technical worker.
Perhaps he didn't understand Fang Hanmin's kindness, or he had the same idea as Mr. Xia and didn't want to get involved with Fang Hanmin's project. Old Xue's negative attitude made Fang Hanmin lose patience with him. In the end, this work was left to the young technical section chief Wan Director Cheng, the dignified director of the General Engineering Office, and Lao Xue were reduced to a dispensable supporting role. ...
After the meeting, technical section chief Wan Cheng personally went to the provincial regulatory department to receive the drug registration application materials, and then compared them one by one according to the requirements on the materials. Wan Cheng organized manpower to compile or organize what information was needed for the registration application. If other departments needed When assisting, Wan Cheng made an application, and Fang Hanmin instructed the relevant departments to fully cooperate.
It took more than two months to prepare the reporting materials. Wan Cheng and two staff members from the technical department came to the provincial medical regulatory department with three portfolios of materials, sorted the materials into categories, and submitted them to Go to the relevant departments of the Provincial Medical Administration Bureau. They stayed in the provincial capital for another two days and did some official business. Just as they were about to return to their work, the hotel receptionist informed Wan Cheng to answer the phone.
Wan Cheng hurriedly ran to the communication room. When he picked up the phone, he realized that it was the attendance clerk of the Technical Section of his unit. "Section Chief, are you still in the provincial capital? Director Lin from the Registration and Regulations Department of the Provincial Medical Administration Bureau. He called just now and asked you to go to him and said he wanted to interview you about something."
Wan Cheng was extremely happy when he heard the news. He thought the filing procedures had been completed and sincerely admired the regulatory authorities for their efficiency.
Wan Cheng didn't dare to delay, so he explained the situation to his two colleagues and asked them to wait in the hotel. He got on the bus and arrived at Director Lin's office an hour later.
Lao Lin was a gentle middle-aged man with a pair of myopia glasses on his nose. Seeing Wan Cheng enter the room, he stood up to greet him, "Comrade Xiao Wan, are you the technical section chief of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory? It seems I should call you Section Chief Wan." That’s right.”
"Director Lin, you're welcome. I'm young, so it's more casual to call me Xiao Wan. I wonder what Director Lin wants to see me for?"
Lao Lin pointed to the chair opposite and motioned for Wan Cheng to sit down, "I have some information that I need to know from you about the generic drug you declared."
Across the desk, Wan Cheng sat down opposite Director Lin, "Oh, are our filing materials not fully prepared?"
"That's not true. The materials you prepared in accordance with the regulatory requirements are completely in compliance with the regulations. But I would like to know some information beyond the regulatory requirements. Can Chief Wan provide it?"
"Situations beyond regulatory requirements? What does Director Lin want to know?"
Director Lin graduated from a top domestic university majoring in organic synthesis in the mid-1960s. After graduation, he engaged in related research at an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Until the mid-1980s, he became very knowledgeable in the field of pharmaceutical synthesis. Because there have been several drug counterfeiting incidents in the province in the past few years, which have had a very bad impact on society, in order to strengthen industry supervision, the organizational department has transferred several skilled technical elites from relevant agencies across the province to serve as employees of the Provincial Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau. , Lao Lin is one of them.
After seeing the registration materials submitted by Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory, Lao Lin first felt very pleased. He did not expect that domestic companies could copy patented drugs with excellent efficacy in such a short period of time.
After spending a whole day at work, reviewing the filing materials of Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory from beginning to end, I couldn’t see anything wrong with the materials themselves. However, as the director of the Registration and Regulations Division of the regulatory department, Lao Lin’s attitude was quite cautious, because He has a general understanding of the process technology of this drug. He believes that it will not be easy for a less-known local state-owned pharmaceutical company to successfully copy this drug, even if it is placed in a professional drug research institute.
Thinking of the counterfeit drug incidents in previous years, Director Lin became even more cautious. He felt it was necessary to interview people from the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory in person to see if any problems could be discovered. He picked up the phone in front of him and dialed a long-distance number. He got through the technical department of Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory. After he explained the situation, the staff member who answered the phone told him that Chief Vanke was on a business trip in the provincial capital and had not returned to the unit yet.
"Can you contact him and ask him to come to my place while he is still in the provincial capital? There are some things that need to be discussed with him."
At that time, communication methods were backward. In order to facilitate contact, Wan Cheng and others called the technical department after arriving in the provincial capital and informed them of the name and phone number of the hotel where they were staying.
