Wang Yongmin, professor-level senior engineer. Born on December 15, 1943 in a peasant family in Nanzhao County, Nanyang, Henan Province. In 1962, he was admitted to the Department of Radio Electronics of the University of Science and Technology of China. From 1978 to 1983, he spent five years researching and inventing the "five-stroke font". With the integration and creation of multiple disciplines, he proposed the "Three Principles of Graphic Code Design", created the first "Periodic Table of Chinese Character Roots", and invented 25 keys and 4 codes. Efficient Chinese character input method and word compatibility technology. For the first time in the world, it broke the 100 words per minute mark for computer Chinese character input, and was patented in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Wang Yongmin is currently a member of the China Association for Science and Technology, vice chairman of the China Private Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Association, and president of Beijing Wangma Computer Corporation. Yongmin eats at the restaurant. A man walked up and asked, "Are you Wang Ma?" Wang Yongmin stood up and said, "I am Wang Yongmin." Unexpectedly, the man quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person. I asked Wang Ma. Wang Yongmin went abroad and was inspected by customs. Wang Yongmin handed over his visa. After the customs officer looked at Wang Yongmin's visa, he jumped up from his seat and stood at attention and saluted Wang Yongmin. Wang Yongmin was startled and thought there was something wrong with his visa. The customs officer said respectfully: "Teacher Wang, we are learning your five-stroke font. " In less than a year after returning to China, 54-year-old Wang Yongmin was caught driving by the police nine times, seven of which. When the traffic police learned that he was Wang Yongmin, the inventor of Wangma, he waved his hand and said, "Teacher Wang, you Be careful next time. "It was released. Wang Yongmin took a taxi. The driver asked where to go? "To Wangma Company. The taxi driver said that the boss of Wangma Company was rich. Wang Yongmin said: "How do you know he is rich?" Driver: "The boss of Wangma Company rides in a Cadillac." Wang Yongmin: "Have you ever seen him ride in a Cadillac?" Driver: "I can think of it all." Wang Yongmin: "Do you know Wang Yongmin?" Driver: "How could I, a driver, know such a big boss like him?" Wang Yongmin: "Young man, don't say that. You work, and Wang Yongmin also works." I am Wang Yongmin. "The driver braked suddenly, jumped out of the car, held Wang Yongmin's hand with both hands, and burst into tears: "I didn't expect a big shot like you to sit in the "mian", my "mian" will let you sit once What an honor. ”
Living in the basement for two years
The five-stroke font became a sensation and was evaluated as a great invention “no less than movable type printing” by Xinhua News Agency’s 4 “Internal References”. Wang Yongmin He was invited to give lectures at the United Nations. From Henan’s point of view, he hoped that “the golden doll would not leave Henan.” But Wang Yongmin believed that Henan produces wheat and corn, so how can I promote it if I can’t even find a computer in Henan? , What I make must be useful. Through research, I know that there is an urgent need for input methods in the country. We bought many large keyboards from the Japanese, which was a disaster, and the money was made by the Japanese. ”
In 1984, Wang Yongmin came to Beijing with a PC. With the help of CCDOS author Yan Yuanchao, he transplanted the Wubi font to the PC. Wang Yongmin was in the basement of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at No. 135 Fuyou Street. I lived in Room 7 for two years. “It was very difficult. I couldn’t even afford the rent of seven yuan a day. " Wang Yongmin's method of promoting the Wubi font is to teach the Wubi font one ministry after another. Although many ministries and commissions have transplanted the Wubi font on their own machines, a large number of people need training. "I will teach anyone who asks; at noon Go if you have food, or if you don’t have lunch at noon; it doesn’t matter if you talk for three days or five days. I pay all the expenses myself, and don’t pay a penny. "Every time I go to a unit, I will meet people who say this input method is good or that input method is good. "They want me to evaluate other input methods. I won't comment on other people's input methods. I said I have studied them all. I just say I myself have no time to speak to others, nor am I interested in speaking to others. "In fact, Wang Yongmin's promotion work is still being done to this day. He asked Mr. Sheng Mao, the composer of the Long March Song Group, to compose his 98 King Code mnemonics into the song "Wang Code is Better", and asked the Black Duck chorus group to use it Singing in the style of popular songs.
While Wang Yongmin was suffering from poverty in the basement, DEC spent US$200,000 to purchase the rights to use the Wubi font. On March 6, 1987, Wang Yongmin moved from the basement to Yuanwang. Building hotel.
On July 25, 1989, Wangma Computer Engineering Development Department was established. At that time, it was not allowed to register a company. Prior to this, Wang Yongmin established a Wang Yongmin Chinese Computer Research Institute to operate the Chinese cards he asked Hong Kong people to develop. One Chinese card sold for more than 1,700 yuan. "I have done some business since I was a child. I set up a stall to carve seals for five cents a stamp. When I was in junior high school, I gave haircuts for five cents. I had an idea at the time. Instead of letting people transplant the Wubi font, I would rather I transplanted it and sold it to them."
In 1998, 54-year-old Wang Yongmin felt that running the company was somewhat inadequate. Although Wangma Company had produced its own brand of computers very early, Wang Yongmin felt that Wangma Company was unable to do so. I will never make a PC again in the future. "I want to hire a partner. First of all, I don't care about money. I don't know how to manage money. If someone else owes me 6 million yuan, I won't get it back. I want the person I hired to manage the company, and I will let him manage everything. I I am very envious of Wang Xuan’s time to devote himself to research. I also have many new inventions. After returning from the United States, I applied for twelve patents. For example, when reading English books, I use this pen to identify words I don’t know. By swiping, I can read Chinese sounds. Invention is my strength. I was doing infusion in the hospital and saw many improvements in the infusion bottle. I was always thinking about inventing something, but I didn’t want to think about it all day long. How to manage a company."
Wang Yongmin always ignores all kinds of criticism. "I know clearly that the ultimate goal of criticism is to make me accomplish nothing. I have calculated this clearly. If I really allocate my energy and take the time to deal with and refute these criticisms, then I will just waste my time and be in chaos. My own position. So, I ignore it. As long as my results are better than what he hates, he will wilt."
Wang Yongmin calls fame and fortune a passing thing, "Here it is for you. This honor and this title are just like your mother giving you a piece of candy if you do your homework well, just to encourage you; if you think you can stop doing it from now on, you will definitely not get this piece of candy next time. , a national model worker, one of the top ten science and technology industrialists in the country, and one of the ten outstanding Communist Party members in Beijing. I only learned about these after the fact." Wang Yongmin admired Einstein very much. "When the development of theoretical mechanics was at a loss, Einstein was able to put the final word on everything, explain everything, and integrate all the originally contradictory things." Wang Yongmin believes that his "three principles of graphic code design" have played an important role in Chinese character input theory. It has the significance of the Theory of Relativity. ?
Wang Yongmin also worshiped Napoleon. "When I was in college, I could read "The Biography of Napoleon" from beginning to end. I admired Napoleon's personality and his grandeur. No one dared to destroy a city, but in order to win the battle, Napoleon dared to bombard Toulon. No matter what."