Now the entire internet is digging into Miss Dong's background—from her undergraduate degree in economics at Columbia to the '4+4' program at Xiehe, from a 24-page water paper to patent plagiarism as a student at Beike University, even details about her aunt's lab's disabled graduate student being extended have been unearthed. Even more absurd is that the Xiehe Medical School deleted the admissions webpage and removed the papers from CNKI, these 'covering up' operations have all been screen-captured by netizens as evidence. It's like a thief wiping fingerprints after a crime, only to be caught on surveillance video during the whole process; the more they try to cover up, the more flaws emerge.
This time it is not a self-examination by the hospital, but a group from the Audit Office and the Ministry of Education coming in. Just look at the direction they are investigating to know they are aiming to pinpoint key issues: the admission list of the '4+4' program, the flow of 47 million 'expert consulting fees' from the China Metallurgical Group, and the interest chain of the Dong family spanning three generations. Especially since the research funding approved by Dong's father was directly allocated to Dong's mother's team, this kind of 'family business' operation cannot hide from the big data of auditing.
A gynecological imaging paper guided by an orthopedic academician, with a forced acknowledgment of parents involved in metallurgy; clearly a PhD in internal medicine, but training crossed over three departments: thoracic surgery and urology; even more fantastical is that among the exposed patent inventors accused of plagiarism, the name of my aunt Ban Xiaojuan is right there. This kind of arrogance, treating privilege as a routine operation, is simply handing the investigation team a knife—too lazy even to pretend.
When netizens discovered that all the '4+4' admits from Xiehe were second-generation individuals like Miss Dong, while ordinary medical students have to endure 11 years to get a job, the anxiety of the entire society was completely ignited. Just look at the Weibo hot search #IsXiehe4+4aPrivilegedChannel# breaking 1 billion readings in one day, and you know this has become a public event of nationwide oversight. Now, whoever dares to cover it up is directly confronting 1.4 billion people.
The network of relationships that the Dong family has operated since their grandfather's generation might now become a death warrant—grandfather Dong Baowei gave the green light to his own company during the approval of the Natural Science Foundation, and grandfather Mi Yaorong's patent was forcibly pushed by the China Metallurgical Group for procurement by Xiehe; this interest web woven by three generations is seen as ready-made anti-corruption clues by the central inspection team. Ironically, Miss Dong was transferred overnight from Beijing Cancer Hospital to the Langfang branch to avoid the limelight, and this kind of 'cross-province evasion' instead exposed the existence of a protective umbrella.
Ultimately, this incident has already transcended scandalous gossip, becoming a direct confrontation between the privileged class and public oversight. When medical students born after 2000 are calculating how many more years they have to endure compared to 'Sister Dong,' and the detail of leaving an anesthetized patient in the operating room for 40 minutes sends chills down one's spine, this contest is destined to have no way back. We are not waiting for a sensational conclusion, but rather to see if China can truly sever the roots of privilege in the tough area of medical education.
