“Just now, Professor Chai said that there is not enough raw material for capsules, and Professor Shi said that Zhejiang University has invented a leather substitute.
Now the question is, without gelatin we can’t make capsule medicine to save lives.
But what if industrial gelatin is used to make drug capsules, which are harmful to the human body and poisonous if eaten?
Perhaps some students will say that we should first solve the problem of “existence” and then consider the problem of “toxicity”.
I don't agree with this. Our medicines are used to save lives. If we continue to use them knowing the dangers, we are harming people.
If everyone has been engaged in this kind of stealing behavior from the beginning, not putting people's health first, but simply considering economic benefits, or making false promises for political achievements.
I will not accept such students.
At all times, we must put the concept of making conscientious medicine first. If we don’t have the raw materials, we can think of other ways.
But if someone gets used to taking shortcuts, they will definitely not follow the upright path in the future, which is a disaster for both society and medicine."
Clap, clap, clap. Everyone in the auditorium applauded.
Professor Shi said with some shame:
"Commissioner Lin taught us a lesson today. We all need to remember the three words 'conscientious medicine'. This is also the mission of us pharmacists. Commissioner Lin, don't worry. I will definitely beat up my colleague and make him forget the production method of industrial gelatin."
Lin Sanqi thought that the domestic "medicines" in a few decades would be hard to describe.
As for Chinese medicine, it is either fake, inferior, or soaked or smoked with chemical raw materials. Not only are they ineffective, but many of them are even toxic.
Western medicine is not much better. Problems arise from the raw material link, and the pharmaceutical technology is at an extremely low level.
Otherwise, why is there such a big difference in the efficacy between domestic drugs and original drugs with the same formula and the same production process?
It’s bad enough that you can’t innovate, but now you can’t even copy homework properly?
To put it bluntly, it’s not that the copying is bad, it’s that people’s hearts are too dark. In order to save costs and make more money, they mess around.
If someone or an organization says: Domestic generic drugs and original drugs have the same efficacy.
There is no doubt that this person is either stupid or bad. The most likely possibility is that he is bad, so bad that he is oozing pus!
At this time, another classmate raised his hand and said:
"Commissioner Lin, you proposed building a world-class pharmaceutical factory, but we can't even get the basic raw materials. How can we produce advanced, world-leading drugs?"
Lin Sanqi chuckled and pointed at the machine next to him.
"We used to be unable to solve problems, but now with these production lines, we have solved them all, and even more thoroughly than those solved abroad. Everyone, take a look at how this equipment uses an assembly line to produce drugs.
Xiaobai, start the machine."
The new secretary, Bai Ruli, quickly found the switch and pressed the button, and the machine started running:
"Students, comrades, look! This device is called a press. It compresses powdered medicine into tablets through extrusion. This machine can generate five tons of pressure and produce five thousand tablets per minute."
Everyone gathered around, their eyes wide open.
The press runs quickly, and pills are produced in large pieces like beans, and go through the production line to the next process.
Professor Guo Wenhao of China Pharmaceutical University said with emotion:
"I often deal with pharmaceutical factories, such as the Tianjin No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory. It's considered a large pharmaceutical factory, with thousands of employees, and can only produce 50,000 pills a day at most.
In the past, I thought Tianjin No. 1 Pharmaceutical Factory was amazing, but guess what now?
It’s astonishing that a large factory’s daily workload is less than what this machine can produce in 10 minutes.”
Professor Chai Guoli was a little dejected at this time:
"Commissioner Lin said this production line isn't state-of-the-art equipment. Just think about it, compared to other countries, we're so far behind. It makes me anxious."
Lin Sanqi comforted him from the side:
"Professors, it's a fact that China lags behind other countries. We have no need to feel ashamed. This is an objective gap, not caused by our generation. If we really want to count, we should start with the generation of the late Qing Dynasty.
What’s past is past, what’s important is the future.
Now we all see the gap between China and the United States. We can learn from our mistakes and then be brave, speed up our pace, overcome all difficulties, and focus on catching up with developed countries and developing our country's economy and technology. This is the most correct solution.
What are you most afraid of now?
One is that they are ignorant and think they are the Central Power, daydreaming of the world coming to pay tribute. They are trying to measure China's resources and win the favor of other countries. Such fools should be swept into the dustbin of history and sent packing.
There is another type of bad people. They clearly see the problem and know how to solve it, but they refuse to progress and refuse to open up because they are afraid of losing power.
Such people, motivated by their own selfish desires, are also sinners against the country and the nation."
Professor Chai nodded heavily: "Commissioner Lin is right. We must face up to our shortcomings and speed up our pace of catching up!"
Professor Ren Rubing of Fudan University, a lesbian, was also overwhelmed with emotion at this time:
"Commissioner Lin, I originally thought that coming to Bao'an County would be fraught with difficulties, and that we would have to start from scratch. Now that I see such advanced equipment, if we only had a few more, our pharmaceutical factory could surpass the output of all the pharmaceutical factories in the country.
If we could develop our own patented drugs, achieve such impressive production volumes, and employ such advanced production lines, I believe our Baoan Pharmaceutical Factory could become the world's most advanced pharmaceutical base. This is not just a dream, but one that could be realized immediately."
Lin Sanqi chuckled:
"Of course. I don't have the patience to wait for decades, not even five years. I'll start infrastructure construction this year, and all production lines will be operational next year. I want to see results."
Several professors were more excited than each other: "Okay, let's work together."
The production line over there is still continuing the drug production process. After each tablet is successfully compressed, it is transported by the conveyor belt to the "encapsulation production line".
This step uses a frozen liquid mixed with water and natural pigments, and uses a coating device to seal the surface of the tablets.
Everyone can see that the mixing barrel is stirring the tablets while the nozzle above is spraying mist-like dissolving liquid to cover the surface of the tablets, causing the tablets to dry quickly.
After this process, the tablets are actually completed and then enter the next production line to start automatic bottling.
The computer automatically determines how many pills are in a bottle, and no human operation is required.
Lin Sanqi continued to introduce:
"This is a tablet production line. If it is a capsule production line, it is actually simpler. You just need to evenly fill the powder into the capsules and then divide them into packages.
The final product, tablets, are usually packaged in bottles or trays. However, because we cannot produce polyvinyl chloride in China at the moment, we can only use glass bottles for the time being, but this does not affect the final product.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi sighed.
Because he found that if he wanted to build a large-scale pharmaceutical base, since the drugs needed to be stored in a sealed manner, he would need a large number of glass bottles or polyethylene plastic plates.
Does that mean that he will purchase a glass factory and a polyethylene factory later?
Glass factories are easy to deal with, and polyethylene is an industry related to oil, but this country has difficulty even refining oil, let alone extending downstream industries.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi felt a little overwhelmed. It turned out that running a business was so difficult.
Things that were no longer available decades later could be purchased from abroad, but in the impoverished 1960s, the entire industrial chain had to be supported by ourselves.
At this time, Professor Sun Yecong, who had been silent just now, asked:
"Commissioner Lin, these pieces of equipment are all pharmaceutical production lines, but they don't involve the production of APIs. This is the crux of the matter. How do you plan to resolve this?"
Lin Sanqi nodded to himself and waved his hand quickly:
"I'm just a doctor. Pharmaceuticals aren't my specialty. I'll leave this difficult problem to you professors. But don't worry, I'll provide you with all the information on the APIs. All you have to do is understand it and then provide production guidance." (End of chapter)
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