When Yang Ping stood on that podium again, the audience was several times larger than the last time.
The last time was in the small meeting room of the Institute, facing his own team of more than a hundred people, packed to the brim.
This time, the conference was held in the large meeting room of Sanbo Hospital. On stage sat the host and simultaneous interpreter, and in the audience were over two thousand scholars from forty-seven countries. Additionally, more viewers were watching via global live stream. His paper had been officially published online in the "New Horizons" section of the New England Journal of Medicine, accompanied by an editorial piece titled "The Birth of a New Theory."
