Second trial verdict! China's youngest engineering academician, animal breeding specialty

On December 8, 2020, the Jilin Provincial High People's Court held a public hearing and pronounced the case of Li Ning, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor at the Agricultural University of China, and Zhang Lei, a co-defendant.
The second trial upheld the first part of the criminal judgment No. 15 of the Songwon Intermediate People's Court (2015) for the conviction and second and third sentences of the defendant Li Ning for embezzlement, revoked the sentencing portion of the sentence for Li Ning in the judgment, and commuted the sentence of 12 years' imprisonment to 10 years' imprisonment for the embezzlement of the appellant Li Ning, and imposed a fine of 2.5 million yuan.
photo source: Jilin Provincial High People's Court official WeChat.
Songyuan Intermediate People's Court ruled that from July 2008 to February 2012, the defendant Li Ning used his position as a professor at the Agricultural University of China, director of the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology of the Agricultural University of China, head of the Li Ning Task Force of the School of Biology of the Agricultural University of China, and responsible for managing a number of The position of the state science and technology major special project funds convenient, together with the defendant Zhang Lei to take misappropriation, false insanity, false labor expenditure and other means, the total amount of scientific research funds for the subject of corruption of more than 34.1 million yuan, of which the other members of the corruption task force under the name of the project funds of 20.92 million yuan.
the above funds were transferred by Li Ning and Zhang Lei to accounts controlled by Li Ning and used to invest in a number of companies such as Li Ning' equity participation and holding.
trial judgment held that the acts of the two defendants constituted corruption.
in the joint crime, Li Ning played a major role, is the main offender.
play a secondary role, is an accessor, has a confession, and plead guilty to repentance, can be reduced according to law punishment.
court of first instance ruled that the defendant, Li Ning, guilty of corruption, was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment and a fine of 3 million yuan.
, the defendant Zhang Lei guilty of corruption, sentenced to five years and eight months in prison, and a fine of 200,000 yuan.
seized stolen funds shall be confiscated in accordance with the law and handed over to the state treasury, and the insufficient part shall continue to be recovered.
the verdict, Li Ning appealed.
the second trial of the Jilin Provincial High People's Court, the appellant, Li Ning, voluntarily pleaded guilty, submitted a letter of remorse, and signed the "Confession and Punishment Certificate" in the testimony of his defense lawyer.
During the second trial, Li Ning had no objection to the facts, evidence and convictions found in the original trial judgment, and pleaded guilty and repented in court, and appealed to the court of second instance to receive a light punishment according to law, in accordance with its guilty attitude, and was willing to accept the court's sentence.
Li Ning's guilty plea, the procuratorate put forward a second-instance sentencing proposal.
after the adjournment of the full court conducted a serious review, that the original trial judgment found that the appellant Li Ning, the original trial defendant Zhang Lei guilty of corruption crime facts are clear, the evidence is true, sufficient, conviction is accurate.
trial proceedings are lawful.
li Ning's sentence should be commuted in light of his guilty plea and remorse during the second trial.
, on the basis of the prosecution's recommendations for sentencing, the court rendered the above-mentioned second-instance judgment.
(On January 3 this year, the defendant, Li Ning, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption and a fine of 3 million yuan, after which Li Ning appealed.)
) 1 Youngest academician, seven years ago, when 42-year-old Li Ning became the youngest academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, he was as dazzling as a star.
As director of the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology of China Agricultural University, Li Ning is known as "the leading figure in the research of genetically modified cloning of animals in China" and has successfully established a research system for animal cloning and bioreactive devices in China, and has presided over a number of major national scientific research projects.
, however, is such a glittering figure that it is linked to "corruption".
, it was revealed that Li Ning had been taken away by authorities in early July for investigation for allegedly transferring tens of millions of project funds to a company he controlled.
2 is always one step earlier than others" Review my experience, not love a line to do a line, but to do a line to love a line.
", Li Ning summed it up in a 2013 media interview.
July 1962, Li Ning was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, to both his parents as a doctor.
the Cultural Revolution began, he was de-lying to the countryside with his parents.
Li Ning recalls, he was one step earlier than others and joined the production team at the age of 8.
1978, at the age of 16, he was admitted to the General School of Jiangxi Communist Labour University (now Jiangxi Agricultural University).
1985, he entered Beijing Agricultural University (now China Agricultural University) as a graduate student, after which he went on to study at Dublin University in Ireland, where he received his Ph.D.
after traveling to the country, Li Ning decided to return home.
you back? Li Ning's explanation is: "I can do a lot of things abroad, but your intellectual property rights, labor creation, and ultimately serve that country."
so I want to come back as soon as possible and contribute to the country through my own efforts.
, even if only a little change, is China's technology, industry promotion.
returned home, Li Ning's initial research focus was biotechnology and genetic technology.
At that time, Beijing white chicken is easy to get leukemia, Li Ning through the screening and marking of the white chicken gene, found a new sex chain slow feather gene, and then breeding to expand the population, improve the survival rate of egg chickens.
china's Taihu pig has the highest yield in the world, producing 156 pigs per nest, while only 9 to 10 abroad.
to discover the mystery, Li Ning and colleagues after genetic research, found several genes related to the rate of birth, developed into breeding technology.
"What species resources are there in China?" What exactly are good genes in many places? What can be used in breeding to improve efficiency? We were mainly doing this work.
" Li Ning said in an interview with the media.
the end of the last century, cloning technology has become the hot spot of scientific research in the world.
Li Ning once frankly admitted that he was "genetically bred and didn't know about cloning", but after the birth of the first cloned sheep, Dori, Li Ning was keenly aware that "this is the forefront of animal technology, the pinnacle of animal science".
, he once again moved earlier than anyone else from the study of genetic technology to cloning.
reported that Li Ning is very diligent in scientific research.
a reporter who interviewed Li Ning described his office this way: "The room is full of information but not messy, the wall hangs Wang Wei's 'Lanting order', a fresh air came."
" Li Ning is the implementation of the "seven-day work system, white and black, five plus two", he comes to work every day, even the security guard at the door clearly know when Li Ning will be, when will go out.
in the eyes of students, Li Ning is a "superman".
" teacher will be the next thing to do with word documents listed, we generally remember a day or two, Mr. Li can remember a few weeks or even a month, and the details will be marked in.
" a meeting from the field on the plane, most of the people began to rest or read magazines to spend time, Li Ning took out a laptop to continue to work, organize documents, study the latest papers ... Occasionally, Li Ning would summon friends to play bridge entertainment, but he used playing cards as a mental exercise.
Li Ning once said: "There are a lot of basic laws, basic calculations, I must use probability calculation to avoid a lot of low-level errors."
"3 industrialization dream of the former star scholars were suddenly taken away, many people can not accept.
some people firmly believe that Li Ning will not have a big problem, and an old professor told reporters that Li Ning was meant to be good, was taken away may be "too anxious", "the industrialization process has a problem."
understood that Li Ning has been committed to promoting the industrialization of animal cloning technology.
He once said: "The state gave me so much research funding, especially I made genetically modified and cloning, I have transformed so many useful things to come, if they can be put into the market, I did not live up to the country, did not live up to the people's taxes, can also be blind."
, nothing else matters to me.
2008, Li Ning led a research team with Beijing Jipuyu Biotechnology Co., D.C., and other units, over a period of 7 years successfully cultivated the first batch of lacto-iron protein genetically modified cows.
pushed for the industrialization of genetically modified cloned cows, which were later failed to do so because of policy restrictions.
, Li Ning has set up several companies in Beijing and Wuxi.
the beginning of 2009, Li Ning was established as a legal person and chairman of Beijing Sanyuan Jipuyu Biotechnology Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 10 million yuan.
December 2010, Li Ning was established as a legal person of Wuxi Cote d'Athno Biotech Co., Ltd., with a registered capital of 275 million yuan.
, Li Ning is also a shareholder in two biotech companies.
people speculated that the money may have come from li Ning to undertake the project funds.
, china's universities, research institutes in the scientific research project management responsibility of the setting, are using the "subject group responsibility system."
the project is established, the financial department of the project-responsible unit shall set up a separate account and realize the independent accounting of the funds to ensure that the funds are earmarked and that the subject leader enjoys the limited use and approval rights of scientific research funds.
although the relevant regulations strictly prohibit self-adjustment of the budget and crowding out the misappropriation of funds for scientific research projects, as well as the outsourcing of scientific research tasks, but there are still people "legitimately" drilling holes.
university official told reporters that most colleges and universities for the use of project funds, do not intervene at all.
who made the subject, the money is who.
financial personnel only review the legality of the invoice, regardless of the reasonableness of the invoice.
some professors will transfer research funds in the name of buying equipment to a friend's company; Some professors themselves are business leaders, using horizontal topics, through the school and their own enterprises in a joint way, the funds for scientific research cash transfer.
2013, Chen Yingxu, a professor at Zhejiang University, was accused of taking tens of millions of yuan in special research funds by making false invoices and fabricating false contracts.
, Li Ning's company has worked with China Agricultural University and Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Sciences to clone the world's most famous medical piglets.
the problem of Li Ning is, can his investigation uncover some of the shortcomings hidden in academia? People wait and see.
4 Profile Li Ning, male, Han nationality, born in July 1962, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor of the School of Biology of China Agricultural University, director of the National Key Laboratory of Biotechnology of China Agricultural University, was once known as "China's leading researcher in the study of genetically modified cloning of animals."
2005 National "May Day Labor Medal" winner, 2008 "Beijing Excellent Communist Party Member" as the national "863" plan in the field of modern agricultural technology expert group leader, the national "973" project chief scientist, unity to lead the innovation team, many times to undertake major national scientific research tasks, published S CI papers more than 200, 15 invention patents, cultivated the world's largest group of cloned cattle and genetically modified cows, won the Second Prize of the National Technology Invention Award 2 (all the first finishers), the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress 2, won the national advanced workers, the Yangtze River Scholars Achievement Award first prize and other provincial and ministerial awards 18.
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