Lei Chuang: From Anti-Hepatitis B Discrimination to Requiring the Minister to Announce Wage

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Lei Chuang: From Anti-Hepatitis B Discrimination to Requiring the Minister to

Announce Wage

Lei Chuang, graduated with Bachelor of Science degree in biological engineering from

Zhejiang University in 2009, is currently a graduate student of chemical engineering at

Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Out of all the prominent legal figures introduced by

China Law Digest, he is the youngest, and is only 25 years old this year.

Lei Chuang is excellent in his schoolwork, and was granted many scholarships for

outstanding students, but he knows well that he will never be an academic, so he

consciously trained his leadership skills to prepare himself as a qualified public figure. In

Zhejiang University, he is the person in charge of Sun Popular Science Volunteers

Association, the head of famers’ research activities group and a member of the Peking

Opera Club. In addition, he is also a volunteer of Beijing Yirenping Center and the

Working Group on Citizens’ Health and Right to Education.

“To a certain extent, I have to thanks Hepatitis B”, said Lei. He explained that, during

the anti-hepatitis B discrimination campaign, his civic awareness was awaken. As a

Hepatitis B virus carrier, he is now known as the grass-root representative of China’s 100

million Hepatitis B virus carriers. He has engaged in countless anti-discrimination

performance art since 2007. In August 2008, after learning that the China Academy of

Science refuses to admit Hepatitis B virus carriers, he spent 3000 RMB sending letters to

524 academicians to reflect the problem and request for help. He has written to 1983

university principals, calling for the abolishment of Hepatitis B discrimination in the

admission process. To verify the proper enforcement of the Food Safety Law which was

promulgated in July 2009, and which stipulated that Hepatitis B carriers are not

prohibited from entering the food industry, he applied for a food health certificate and

became the first to get a food health certificate under the Law two months later. In 2010,

Lei Chuang suddenly dropped out from school to take a gap year to record cases of

Hepatitis B discrimination, despite that fact that the law has prohibited Hepatitis B check

during the recruitment process and rejection of applicants on ground of their being HBV

carriers.