Chapter II

By mid-1915, John was putting all his energy into education!

The huge amount of gold John earned from Europe was not used to continue investing, because the Huntelaar consortium was now very large, and he had to leave enough opportunities for other consortiums. So a large amount www.biquge.info of money was operated by the Huntelaar Bank, which came to China from North America and invested in industry and education, of which the proportion of education is very high.

Primary and secondary schools are rising in more places!

The primary and secondary school textbooks that have been used in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years have been recognized by most people in the education circles, except for content such as Chinese culture. Therefore, from 1915 onwards, the Beiyang government issued an order to introduce the primary and secondary school textbooks of the Huntelaar system to the whole country. In order to promote these materials, despite the opposition of almost everyone, John formulated a huge five-year plan with a total investment of up to 100 million US dollars, preparing to build thousands of primary and secondary schools in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui and other provinces, and build a normal university in the capital of each province......

In addition to this, there is a big plan for ten years - a big plan for a total of fifteen medical schools!

In March 1914, as in history, the Rockefeller Foundation acquired the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, and in July of the same year, the American designer Coolidge arrived in Beijing and began to design a combination of Chinese and Western school and hospital buildings. It's just that it is slightly different from the history that perhaps it means that Xiangya Medical School has a different beginning, and the scale of Rockefeller's first investment has doubled compared with the same period!

In August 1915, Carnegie University, funded by the Carnegie Foundation, was established in Guangzhou. This historically unfounded medical school invested a huge amount of $4 million in an initial investment because of an idea from Carnegie, and avoided Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai of the Huntelaar consortium and Beijing of the Rockefeller Foundation in favor of southern China.

In September 1915, the freshmen of Xiangya Medical College opened the school season.

After presiding over the opening ceremony of another class of freshmen, Yan Fuqing, the president of Xiangya Medical College, submitted his resignation to the school board and resolutely left Changsha, where he had struggled for ten years.

In October 1915, Yan Fuqing took office as the president of the Huntelaar Chinese Medical Education Foundation.

Beginning on November 1, 1915, it took three months for Yan Fuqing's footsteps to start from Nanning, Guangxi, to Wuhan, Nanchang, Hefei, Xiamen, Taiyuan, etc., and began to measure the construction map of the medical school constructed by John and Rong Hong a few years ago. The construction of the school had been fully rolled out two years earlier, and the investment in most of them was not large, but in order to organize sufficient teacher resources, Yan Fuqing returned to Changsha in February 1916, and then went to Shanghai in March to visit many doctors who had returned from studying in the United States......

In this process, Hendlar Pharmaceutical and the Chinese Medical Association have been of great help to him.

In 1913, the Chinese branch of the Huntelaar Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices Company was established. In the first year of its existence, the company made a profit of less than $10,000, but the next year that number skyrocketed to $130,000, and by the end of 1915, the profit of the Huntelaar Pharmaceutical Company had exceeded $300,000!

In this part of China, the number is already huge.

After all, the number of modern Chinese doctors in this era is not large, even after John's efforts for so many years, there are only tens of thousands, and most of them are concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha and other cities, and the service objects are mostly foreigners and a small number of economically rich Chinese. In fact, Huntelaar Pharmaceutical's big customer is not in China, but across the sea from Japan, and its exports are increasing like crazy every year.

Huntelaar pharmaceutical companies and medical device companies have almost monopolized the supply of medicines and medical devices for these physicians.

On the one hand, John's persistent policy of sponsoring international students has led to the number of physicians in the Huntelaar department reaching thousands, and because of their overwhelming ability and quality, they almost represent the highest level of modern medicine in this era, which can be seen from the increasing number of academic papers. Compared to those doctors who stayed in Japan, the doctors of the Huntelaar system and the doctors who returned from studying in Germany were almost overwhelming.

In terms of strength, it brings great influence.

Almost all of the German and American physicians are die-hard supporters of Huntelaar pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and under their leadership, almost all Chinese physicians have no other choice.

On the other hand, the promotion of the Chinese Medical Association also played a key role.

With the efforts of Wu Liande and Yan Fuqing, the Chinese Medical Association was established in early 1914. Under the call of the two medical giants, doctors in major cities have joined this charismatic organization. In just one year, the number of physicians who have joined the Chinese Medical Association has exceeded 5,000, and with the right to share dividends of Huntelaar Pharmaceutical for 20 years, the Medical Association is naturally desperately publicizing it......

In addition to investing in pharmaceutical companies and medical associations, the Huntelaar consortium has also invested in hundreds of modern hospitals.

Perhaps the word hospital is not very accurate, because most of these so-called hospitals are just a small building, with three or five doctors, and a little larger is only seven or eight people. But it is precisely because of the existence of these small clinics that hospitals have begun to spread modern medicine in provincial capitals. And because of their mature technology and model, compared with Yan Fuqing and Hu Mei, who were struggling back then, their path to practicing medicine is much smoother.

After hundreds of "small clinics" were paved, places such as Nanning, Nanchang and Hefei began to build medium-sized hospitals that could accommodate dozens of doctors, while in Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing and Taiyuan, a large hospital second only to Xiangya Hospital is emerging!

The program of five top medical schools and ten medium-sized medical schools has officially begun!

Tens of millions of dollars of initial funds have been invested in the construction of these medical schools and hospitals, and with the support of the Beiyang government, local governments in various provinces have also invested corresponding funds and land to provide full support. After all, like the agreement signed by Xiangya, all the investment of the Huntelaar consortium will be handed over to the local government after 20 years, which is a good thing that cannot be desired!

Except for the Huntelaar consortium, no one has the strength and financial resources anymore.

You must know that in addition to the initial investment in construction, a top medical school such as Xiangya and Xiehe, the investment in equipment alone is millions of dollars, and the general medical school also needs two or three hundred thousand, as for the investment in teachers and management, it is not small, and it will continue year after year! Without the support of the Huntelaar consortium, if the government or the local gentry were able to raise this astronomical amount of money, where would they find a sufficient number of teachers?

With Xiangya Medical College as the leader, the Huntelaar medical education system has officially taken root in China.

In five years, from 1915 to 1919, the Huntelaar consortium invested more than $100 million to build five top medical schools in Changsha, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Chongqing, and Taiyuan, China, enrolling less than 300 eight-year students each year; Ten small medical schools have been established in Nanchang, Nanning and other places, enrolling more than 500 three-year students every year. By the time these schools were handed over to the Chinese government, the enrollment of the 15 schools was not only clinical, but also public health, pharmacy and nursing, with more than 6,000 students graduating each year......