Source: News Center of SYSU, Nanfang Daily
Written by: News Center of SYSU, Nanfang Daily
Translated by: Zhang Saijia

20 candidates for the 2012 “Guangdong News-Focus People Top 10” have been nominated after initial selection and two of them are Professor He Xionglei and Academician Zeng Yixin from Sun Yat-sen University (listed in the order of the number of strokes in their surnames). It is learned from the organizing committee that this activity was launched on January 14, 2013 to officially start selecting candidates from the public. It is required that stories of the individual or group candidates must have been reported by the media, which have caused public attention, have strong news value, and have touched and influenced Guangdong. From now on, the public can log on to the official website or click “Vote 2012 Guangdong News-Focus People Top10” on the website of Guangdong Television www.gdtv.cn to get information about the candidates and vote. The public can also vote through text messages via mobile phones:
China Mobile users: text “TP + Candidate Number” to 106585775;
China Unicom and China Telecom users: text “TP + Candidate Number” to 10621222.
The final 10 people will be decided based on the opinion of the selection committee, online public voting and text voting, and the result will be officially announced at the Award Ceremony in March, 2013.

Brief Introduction to SYSU Candidates (listed in the order of the number of strokes in their surnames):

He Xionglei (No. 12)
He Xionglei became one of the youngest professors and doctoral supervisors in the history of Sun Yat-sen University before the age of 30. He is regarded by students as “the most adorable professor at SYSU”. In 2012 the research group led by him discovered a new mechanism of DNA mutation adjusted by chromatin structure and the research result was published in the world-class journal Science.

Zeng Yixin (No. 17)
Zeng Yixin is Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. His research team has constantly made breakthroughs, laying the foundation for tackling the difficult problem of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), which is also called the “Canton tumor”. He has published more than 200 research papers and applied for 8 national patents. In 2012, he won the Guangdong Science and Technology Award for Outstanding Contribution.