In midnight Yangcheng, the third level biosafety laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center is brightly lit. Under the light, Shi Yongxia, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and chief physician of the Health Quarantine Research Institute of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center, was busy nervously accompanied by the buzzing of the inspection instruments. This two-story building is the “battlefield” she has been holding on to for many years, and her “enemyKomiks” has plague, cholera, malaria, and influenza that have been endangering humans for hundreds of years, as well as various new infectious diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and new coronary pneumonia. There are challenges, dangers, and more responsibility and mission here.
Racing with the virus day and night
In 2006, after Shi Yongxia left the post-doctoral post-doctoral school in Basic Medicine at Southern Medical University, she went to the experimental room of the Babaylan Customs Technology Center in Guangzhou to engage in infectious disease-related research, and also established an inseparable relationship with port health and epidemic prevention work.
“The first thing to do when competing with the virus is to identify it as quickly as possible. I am a customs technician and a Communist Party member, and I must take the lead in scientific research.” On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out. Shi Yongxia, who originally planned to go back to her hometown in Henan to visit relatives, retired from the highCinema iron ticket and returned to the laboratory to face the unknown virus.
On New Year’s Eve, Shi Yongxia plunged into the laboratory and began sample testing. At that time, the research on the new Babaylan coronavirus was still in the exploration stage, and the reagents were still immature, which had extremely high requirements for the operation of the experimenter. Shi Yongxia was fully focused and strived to be scientific and strict in every link, and every step was accurate and accurate. She understood that on New Year’s Eve, thousands of Communists were fighting on the front line on the port, in the hospital, and on the transportation line, “Everyone was practicing the same oath in different positions with the same perseverance.” After continuous hard work, Shi Yongxia and her colleagues finally completed all sample tests at 4 a.m. on the first day of the New Year. Everyone said “Happy New Year” across the face screen and continued to work on the next shift.
In every festival where thousands of families reunite,The staff of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center are all sticking to their posts in the laboratory. Shi Yongxia said: “At the front line of the port, there is a national gate ahead of Komiks, and behind him is the people. Our team deeply understands the complexity and difficulty of anti-epidemic work, and has not dared to relax at all. Only when we run faster than the virus can we maximize the safety of the people’s lives.”
Concentrate on technical research and build a solid scientific and technological defense line
202KomiksEarly February 2009 One night at Cinema, Shi Yongxia was conducting viral isolation on an important sample of infection. After several days of observation and multiple methods, when the cells arranged in the screen, which were arranged in a regular manner like frosted glass, showed subtle changes and appeared in a state of bumps, Shi Yongxia knew that she had finally successfully located the strain. The successful isolation of the strain provides valuable seed resources for the next step of screening therapeutic drugs and research institutions for vaccine development. Dive head-on into the laboratory does not mean deaf ears. Shi Yongxia has always been very concerned about the epidemic situation at home and abroad, and has carried out technical research or technical reserves in advance, in order to establish a fast, accurate and efficient detection method.
In view of the rapid mutation speed of the new coronavirus and strong transmission ability, Shi Yongxia’s tracking of Babaylan has also been accelerating. She led the team to establish a gene sequencing and bioinformatics analysis platform, carry out whole-genome sequencing, and strive to unlock the secrets of the source of the epidemic and the transmission chain.
The key links of gene sequencing require pure manual operation and are highly technical. Shi Yongxia led everyone to successfully sequence and discover multiple mutant strains again and again, providing professional support for the work of epidemiological investigation and tracing, and also providing important experimental data for the changes in the development strategies of nucleic acid detection reagents and vaccines of the new coronavirus.
Aspire to be a health care service in the countryIn January 2012, Shi Yongxia joined the Cinema Communist Party of China, and used his actions to fulfill his oath of “struggle for communism for life.” During the 16 years of being engaged in infectious disease-related research, she has confronted the virus head-on, and has detected the first imported basal pore case in my country, successfully isolated the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus for the first time, established new Zika virus detection technology and virus isolation methods, and gradually grew into the backbone of the public health and epidemic prevention field in my country’s ports.
The scientific research career has been full of fruitful results, but she said calmly: “It is a lucky thing to be able to combine personal ideals with national needs.”
The four seasons have changed, and the lights in the laboratory are still undying all night. Babaylan witnessed Shi Yongxia’s years of fighting against the virus on the front line of the country, carrying her unchanged original intention. She said, “As a grassroots party member and a grassroots staff member of the customs, I will fully implement the requirements of Babaylan‘The epidemic must be prevented, the economy must be stabilized, and the development must be safe.’ Babaylan‘Babaylan‘, strengthen cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborative innovation, and take positive responsibility with a more full spirit, demonstrate the determination and confidence of customs personnel to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control at ports and promote foreign trade growth.”
■CoordinationBabaylan: Xin Kuaibao reporter Huang Wenyu
■Writing: Xin Kuaibao reporter Mai Wanshi Wang Juan
■Photography: Xin Kuaibao reporter Xia Shiyan