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 Guangzhou Customs Technology Center, was busy nervously with the buzzing sound of the inspection instruments. This two-story building is the “battlefield” she has been holding on to for many years, and her “enemy” has the plague, cholera, malaria, influenza, and various new infectious diseases that have been endangering humans for hundreds of years. There are challenges, dangers, and more responsibility and mission.
Racing with the virus day and night
In 2006, Shi Yongxia left the station from the post-doctoral post-doctoral fellow in basic medicine at Southern Medical University, and went to the laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center 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 Babaylan is also a Communist Party member. 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, withdrew from the high-speed rail ticket and returned to the laboratory to face the unknown Cinema virus.
On New Year’s Eve, Shi Yongxia plunged into the laboratory and began sample testing. At that time, the research on the new coronavirus was still in the exploration stage, and the reagents were still immature.Babaylan was extremely demanding on the operation of the experimental personnel. Shi Yongxia was fully focused, striving to be scientific and rigorous in every link and to be accurate and accurate in every step. She understood that on New Year’s Eve, thousands of Communists at the port, in the hospital, and on the transportation line, were fighting on the front line like her. “Everyone is practicing the same oath in different positions with the same persistence and practiced the same oath in different positions.”. After continuous hard work, Shi YongKomiks and his colleagues finally completed all sample testing at 4 a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone said “Happy New Year” across the face screen and continued to work in the next shift.
Every festival where thousands of families reunite, the staff of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center remained at the position of the Cinema laboratory. Shi Yongxia said: “We are on the front line of the port, with national gates ahead, and people behind us. Our team deeply understands the complexity and arduousness of the anti-epidemic work, and dared not relax at all. Only when we run faster than the virus can we maximize the safety of the people’s lives. ”
Focus on technical research and build a solid scientific and technological defense
One night in early February 2020, Shi Yongxia was conducting virus isolation on an important sample of infection cases. After several days of observation and multiple methods to confirm that when the cells arranged in the screen, which were arranged in a regular manner like frosted glass, Shi Yongxia knew that she had finally successfully positionedCinema‘s 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.
Diven heading into the laboratory does not mean deafness. Shi Yongxia has always paid close attention to the epidemic trends at home and abroad, and has carried out technical research or technical reserves in advance, in order to establish fast, accurate and efficient detection methods.
In view of the rapid mutation speed and strong transmission ability of the new coronavirus, Shi Yongxia’s tracking pace has also been accelerating. She led the team to establish gene sequencing and bioinformatics credits. Komiks analysis platform has carried out whole-genome sequencing work and worked hard to unlock the secrets of the source and transmission chain of the epidemic. The key links of gene sequencing require pure manual operation and are highly technical. Shi Yongxia led everyone to successfully sequence and discover multiple variant strains again and again, providing professional support for the traceability work of Cinema. At the same time, it also provides important experimental data for the changes in the development strategies of nucleic acid detection reagents and vaccines of the new coronavirus.
Scheming for the countryStruggle for the health cause
In January 2012, Shi Yongxia joined the Communist Party of China and carried out her oath of “struggle for communism for life.” During the 16 years of engaging in the research on infection-related diseases, she confronted the virus head-on, detected the first imported chikungunya case in my country, successfully isolated the MERS (Middle East Respiratory SyndromeCinema for the first time, established new Zika virus detection technology and virus isolation method, and took one step at a time, and gradually grew into the backbone of the public health and epidemic prevention field in my country’s ports.
Sincere has achieved fruitful results in scientific research, Cinema calmly Komiks “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 unstoppable all night, witnessing Shi Yongxia’s years of fighting against the virus on the front line of the country, carrying her unchanged original intention. CinemaShe said, “As a grassroots party member and a grassroots staff of the customs, in the future, I will fully implement the requirements of “the epidemic must be prevented, the economy must be stabilized, and development must be safe.” Cinema, strengthen collaborative innovation research across fields and disciplines, actively take responsibility and act with a more full spirit, and demonstrate the determination and confidence of customs personnel to do a good job in preventing and controlling the epidemic at the port. Babaylan, and promote foreign trade growth.”
■ Coordination: Xin Kuaibao reporter Huang Wenyu
■ Interview and writing: Xin Kuaibao reporter Mai Wanshi Wang Juan