On October 10, the Department of Education of Guangdong Province announced the results of the "11 Guangdong College Student Person of the Year" selection and display activity, and Wang Yongfei, Ph.D. of the School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, was awarded the title of "2020 Guangdong College Student Person of the Year".

Wang Yongfei, a member of the Communist Party of China, is a 2018 doctoral student at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, engaged in high-performance nanocrystalline core research. Published 4 related technical papers and applied for 5 patents; He was awarded the "Moving Huayuan" college student of the year, the "Top Ten Student Communist Party Members and Communist Youth League Pacesetters" of South China University of Technology, and the top 2019 college student entrepreneurial heroes in 2020-10; Won the gold medal of the <>th China International "Internet +" Competition, the first prize of the <>th "Nano Star" Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Finals, and the first prize of the <>th "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Taiwan College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition". Guangzhou Jinci Haina New Material Technology Co., Ltd. was founded, researched and developed high-performance amorphous nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials, successfully developed a number of high-end magnetic core products, and realized industrialization.

Resign and start a business, and serve the country with the "core"

Influenced by his father, Wang Yongfei liked to read the instructions and manufacturing processes of various materials since he was a child, and with his interest in materials science, Wang Yongfei completed his initial enlightenment. After entering high school, he further understood that every iteration and upgrading of material technology will greatly promote the development of human production and life, so he firmly chose the material science and engineering major at the undergraduate level.

"I have taken almost the same path at the crossroads of life," Wang Yongfei once said. Every graduation season, college graduates always make a choice about their future development path - should they continue their studies? Or choose employment? Or self-employment? And these three completely different roads have Wang Yongfei's footprints.

In 2015, after successfully completing the master's degree of amorphous nanocrystalline magnetic core research, Wang Yongfei entered China Southern Power Grid. During his tenure, he was deeply involved in the infrastructure process and market development of the production line, and quickly became a management team with excellent scientific research ability and dedicated work attitude. The in-depth front-line work experience has made Wang Yongfei deeply aware of the current grim situation faced by the domestic material industry: high-end technology is monopolized by foreign countries, and the supply and demand of the material market is still unbalanced.

Wang Yongfei was at the school's "Top Ten Communist Party Members and Communist Youth League Pacesetters" appraisal site

In 2018, when doing technical exchanges in Europe and the United States, Wang Yongfei was full of emotion, while sincerely admiring the cutting-edge technology mastered by developed countries, and at the same time lamenting the backward research and development status in China. The domestic high-end core market is almost monopolized by Germany's VAC and Japan's Hitachi Metal, and domestic high-end magnetic cores are facing the pain point of the technology "stuck neck" industry.

The gap between domestic and foreign material technology made Wang Yongfei have the idea of starting a business: "Researchers are a little arrogant, they have been doing it for so many years, and they have to buy other people's things, they can't swallow this breath, and they don't believe that they can't do it." 18 years is another year of turbulence in the international situation, China is subject to various sanctions, and if it does not want to be controlled by others, someone must always break through. ”

So, after ending his study tour in Europe and the United States, Wang Yongfei resolutely decided to resign and start a business. With the help of theoretical accumulation and practical experience during his study and tenure, Wang Yongfei registered and established Guangzhou Jinci Haina New Material Technology Co., Ltd. in May 2018, with the English name "Joinchina", which means to gather the world's top amorphous nanocrystalline core technology and talents to China, determined to create the era of China's "core".

Gold and stone can be cut, and jade is in the future

At the same time as starting his own business, in September 2018, Wang Yongfei chose "furnace reengineering" and applied for a doctorate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology. When asked why he started a business while studying for a Ph.D., Wang Yongfei believes that he also needs to strengthen his basic research capabilities and make more preparations for product iteration, and the company also needs to draw more wisdom and attract more scientific research talents from the top expert team in the scientific research field.

Faced with various obstacles on the road to entrepreneurship, Wang Yongfei has a clear understanding: "30 years of technology monopoly, even if we can surpass in process and technology, but it is not a matter of one or two days to get recognition in the industry." But he firmly believes that "there are no shortcuts to scientific research, and since you have set your goals, you must be undistracted and go all out." ”

Gold magnetic Haina common-mode inductor core

The professional scientific research background and strength, perseverance and enterprising scientific research spirit have rewarded Wang Yongfei and his team. In the second phase construction project of China's major scientific infrastructure China Spallation Neutron Source, Wang Yongfei and his team worked day and night to debug the process, and after layers of screening, successfully became the exclusive supplier of magnetic cores for China's first pulsed spallation neutron source in 2018. Wang Yongfei recalled: "At that time, the second phase of construction of the large scientific device 'China Spallation Neutron Source' under the name of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was underway, and the magnetic core needed to purchase European products. However, in order to improve confidentiality and shorten the detection replacement cycle, neutron sources must be completely domesticated. ”

Wang Yongfei admitted, "It is not easy to get this opportunity. At that time, he and his research team had to juggle the development of other projects, so he and his research team traveled day and night between different laboratories, "During that time, we didn't see the sun outside for almost two months in a row, and we didn't get a good night's sleep." Wang Yongfei seized this opportunity and finally developed a nanocrystalline magnetic core with independent intellectual property rights, and after repeated testing and screening, the nanocrystalline magnetic core performance far exceeds similar foreign products, and it is also the only product that meets the requirements of neutron sources.

Through this project, Jinci Haina has become a member of the promotion to realize the complete localization of China's large scientific equipment. In September 2020, the National Natural Science Foundation of China jointly applied for the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Research on the Irradiation Effect of High Energy Neutron Irradiation of Beam Transformers Based on Amorphous-Nanocrystalline Alloys".

Live display of the 2020 China International "Internet +" Competition

The journey of thousands of miles of clouds has begun, and the great cause of the blueprint is in the spring. Under the leadership of Wang Yongfei, Jinci Haina has achieved rapid growth and has been recognized as a national high-tech enterprise in less than three years since its establishment (December 2020). At present, the company's products are widely used in national defense, consumer electronics, precision sensors and other fields, and are widely used to replace imported magnetic cores in precision sensors and industrial power supplies, and gradually build their own core technical barriers. The gold medal won in the 12 China International "Internet +" Competition also made the nanocrystalline core of Jinci Haina "C out of the circle", which attracted more and more attention. Jinci Haina has also become the first batch of enterprises to enter China's Nano Valley, helping China to transform from a magnetic material country to a magnetic material power, and creating a "core" era belonging to China.

Do not forget the original intention, return to the society

Success is never achieved alone, in South China Institute of Technology, Wang Yongfei met a group of like-minded partners, formed a strong team, college teachers in product research and development provided a lot of ideas and suggestions, the school also gave strong support and meticulous care on his entrepreneurial road, whether it is office space, financial support, or entrepreneurial counseling, product publicity docking, all let him take a lot of detours.

The sea is full of rivers, there is tolerance is great, the wall stands in a thousand, and the desire is strong. The rapid development of the company is inseparable from the help of national policies, so from the beginning of its establishment, Wang Yongfei has actively fulfilled social responsibility, Jinci Haina conscientiously implements the active employment policy, the talent training and promotion of employment in a prominent position, with the expansion of the company's operation scale, in recent years will drive the channel, winding, assembly and other upstream and downstream employment of 2000,<> people. Wang Yongfei will continue to expand the scale of employment positions, vigorously support young people from poor families, and focus on improving the overall quality of young employees. He has always infected every young employee around him with his unique rigor and tenacity, leading them forward step by step. In his words: "I use my success as an example to pass on my experience and ideas to others, so that everyone can become rich together, which is my natural obligation." ”

The company has jointly established the Magnetic Materials and Devices Research Center and the Metal Materials Practice Base with South China University of Technology, and assisted in holding highly influential academic seminars on amorphous nanocrystalline new materials and academic exchange competitions for soft magnetic new materials, which have promoted the development of related disciplines.

Achievements are the records of the pioneers' arduous treks, honor is the reward for the pioneers' persistent pursuit, and brilliance is the burning of ideals and values. Brave to work hard, pioneering and enterprising, Wang Yongfei shows the spiritual outlook and family and country feelings of Chinese engineering students in the new era with practical actions, and the great cause he has pursued hard will continue to achieve new brilliance.