After both parties sat down, he quickly introduced them:
"The person next to me is Mr. Galen, currently the head of Elsevier's Hong Kong office. The Lancet is one of their journals."
This passage was spoken in English. As workplace elites in Hong Kong, Chen Shuqin and Lin Hui were both very proficient in English. Although Chen Xia's oral expression ability was average, he had no problem understanding it. After all, he was a frequent watcher of American TV series in his previous life.
"Galen, this is Ms. Chen Shuqin, the general manager of Caiyunzhinan Jewelry, and also the general manager of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Company, whom your wife loves so much. She's my high school classmate. I pursued her for three whole years, but she never gave me a chance."
Galen's wife is a native of Hong Kong. She particularly likes jade jewelry from Caiyunzhinan. She always attends every tasting event held by Caiyunzhinan. Unfortunately, her husband is just a senior white-collar worker and is far from being able to buy whatever she wants.
"Oh, Caiyunzhinan has charmed my wife, and my wallet has been crying."
"Since Mrs. Galen likes jade so much, I will definitely list her as a top-level VIP customer and give her the biggest discount, so that Mr. Galen's wallet can smile."
Hehehe.
A few jokes brought everyone closer together, and Chen Shuqin introduced Chen Xia and Lin Hui.
There are four top comprehensive medical journals in the world: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), The Lancet, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Whether in the 1980s or in Chen Xia's previous life, among doctors, being able to publish an article in The Willow Journal was a great honor and also quite difficult, not everyone could do it.
The difficulty of publishing a paper in The Willow Journal is roughly equivalent to that of publishing a paper in CNS. However, Chen Xia has never thought about publishing a paper in CNS. The difficulty is too great, and it is impossible for an ordinary doctor's paper to be selected.
Once you publish a paper in The Willow Leaf, your future career prospects can be said to be very bright, and universities, research institutions, and top hospitals will all be open to you.
Anyway, the Jiangzhou People's Hospital where Chen Xia worked in his previous life offered a reward of 1 million yuan. Anyone who could publish a paper in a top international medical journal could receive it. Unfortunately, no one had ever touched the prize money.
What Chen Xia is trying to conquer now is The Lancet, because historically, two Australian doctors submitted their first paper to many places, but in the end only The Lancet accepted and published it.
This shows that there must be a big shot behind the scenes among the editors of The Lancet who is optimistic about this paper and research results.
After the two sides exchanged greetings, they got down to business.
Since Chen Xia is also an old customer, Zhou Anbei has to maintain this relationship even from the perspective of long-term economic interests. What's more, he is just a matchmaker and doesn't have to pay anything.
"Galen, I called you here because Mr. Chen wants you to review a paper they want to publish in The Lancet. What do you think?"
Chen Shuqin added, "This research project was initiated by us in Hong Kong, and we commissioned a university and two hospitals in mainland China to conduct the research together. Mr. Galen, you are the initial reviewer for The Lancet in Hong Kong, so you must keep us in check."
"A paper from the mainland! Wow, is The Lancet already so influential in the mainland?"
Galen was very surprised, because in his eyes, the mainland is now synonymous with backwardness, but as an old-fashioned business group, he certainly knows that with the reform and opening up of the mainland, the mainland's economy will sooner or later pick up.
So how to enter the mainland and develop this huge market with hundreds of millions of people is also a question that the head office has been considering. So an idea suddenly popped up in his mind:
If this paper is qualified, once it is published in The Lancet, it will definitely make mainland Chinese people have the greatest favorability towards them.
Then Elsevier Publishing Company will have the opportunity to enter the mainland market first, after all, Elsevier has more than just The Lancet magazine.
In the eyes of capitalists, any ideology is a joke. As long as there is money to be made, they will do business with Satan.
Although he had made up his mind, Galen, as a business representative, still had to continue to fool around a little:
"The Lancet has very strict requirements for accepting manuscripts. The papers must be innovative and disruptive, such as new medical technologies, drugs, or concepts, improvements to existing medical knowledge, or the ability to impact or change a particular medical field."
Chen Xia smiled and replied in English, "Sir, after you read this paper, you will definitely think it will be a groundbreaking paper for the epoch-making."
"Oh, really? Do you mind if I take a look at the paper first?"
After saying that, Galen started reading by himself. The more he read, the more shocked he became. He thought to himself that this was really subversive and completely overturned the current medical community's views on the occurrence of stomach diseases.
Garen, who had an adventurous spirit in his bones, was frightened and then ecstatic.
As long as this paper is not fake, it will definitely be a Nobel Prize-level new discovery. When it is published, it will increase the authority of The Lancet.
Don't forget that there are many top medical journals in the world. They also need to make a living and the competition pressure is also very high.
Galen read it over and over again. The data was very detailed, and all the experiments were easily repeatable. Anyone could observe the unidentified bacteria as long as they had relevant specimens, which meant that it could withstand the scrutiny of the "old scholars".
"Ms. Chen, Mr. Chen, can you guarantee the authenticity of this paper? If the data is falsified, it will cause great reputational damage to your company and even your country."
Chen Shuqin smiled and said, "We can guarantee that we have found a treatment for this unknown bacillus, and it is now being used clinically in mainland China."
Galen was really happy to hear this. Being able to discover an unknown bacillus, confirm the pathogenicity of this bacillus to stomach diseases, and finally propose a treatment plan, it was simply a one-stop service.
This is not only a major academic research breakthrough, but also brings immeasurable economic benefits. Can Elsevier get a piece of the pie?
Thinking of this, Galen decided to go back and take the paper and strongly recommend it to the reviewers of The Lancet in a timely manner.
Chen Xia heaved a sigh of relief when he saw Garen's expression. He was most afraid that Garen would refuse outright, as that would make things awkward and his boasting would be exposed.
If you can't even deal with the head of the Hong Kong office, then getting published in The Lancet would be harder than climbing to the sky.
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