Wen Yuankai (Chinese: 温元凯; born 1946) is a Chinese scholar, social activist and financial investor. He was a prominent figure during the New Enlightenment movement in mainland China in the 1980s, actively supporting the "Reform and Opening" as a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. He also served as a deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Education. Wen shifted his focus to financial investment in the 1990s and founded his own consulting firm in China.
Biography
Wen Yuankai was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu in 1946. He attended Nanjing University and studied chemistry, but was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution while in college. After graduation in 1968, he was sent to work at a plastic factory in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, where he joined the Chinese Communist Party. In the summer of 1973, he received recommendations and began working at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). In 1977, at the beginning of the Boluan Fanzheng period, he made a suggestion to Deng Xiaoping to resume the National College Entrance Examination which was cancelled during the decade of Cultural Revolution (1966–1976).
In 1980, he went to France and spent some time studying quantum biology. After returning to China, Wen became an active leader in promoting the Chinese economic reform and thought liberation as a professor at the USTC, primarily by giving lectures at hundreds of universities, publishing books on the reforms of China, and so on.
In 1992, he became a visiting scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, but soon shifted his focus to finance and began working at Wall Street in 1993. He returned to China later and has served as the Chief Adviser of Kuaile Nongjia as well as the chairman of the Board (Training Center) for Beijing Nanyang Linde Consulting.
References
- ^ "温元凯传-改革开放30周年" [Biography of Wen Yuankai]. Hexun. Archived from the original on 2013-05-16. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- "Prof. Wen Yuankai Talks on 30 years of Reform and Opening up of China". Shanghai Normal University. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "温元凯：八十年代 思想大解放" [Wen Yuankai: the grand thought liberation in the 1980s]. Phoenix New Media. 2008-11-27. Archived from the original on 2024-07-15. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
- ^ "温元凯是如何成为生动活泼主动学习典型的" [How Wen Yuankai became an exemplar of active studying]. Nanjing University (in Chinese). 2023-01-10. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- Li, Promise (2022-03-08). "From the 'Chinese National Character' Debates of Yesterday to the Anti-China Foreign Policy of Today". Made in China Journal. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- "How China Got Rich". Films Media Group. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- "1983年2月，中科大温元凯教授作关于大学改革报告" [In February 1983, Prof. Wen Yuankai from USTC gave a talk on the reform of universities]. Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- "副教授温元凯与报社领导畅谈改革设想" [Associate professor Wen Yuankai discussed reforms with leaders of the press]. Guangming Daily. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- Wen, Yuankai (1984). 中国的大趋势: 温元凯谈改革 [The big trend in China: Wen Yuankai discusses reforms] (in Chinese). Shanghai People's Press.
- Wen, Yuankai (1984). "改革的曙光" [The morning light of reforms]. National Library of Australia. Shanxi People's Press. Retrieved 2024-10-20.