In the past two days, Li Changfeng of the "Economist" magazine has been very busy.

At the end of the year, the analysis of the 2002 annual economic summary and the designation of the 2003 call for papers are imminent.

And another very important thing is the selection of outstanding articles in the 2002 magazine "The Economist".

This selection has been going on for three years, and the annual gold medal article selection in the past few years has attracted wide attention from the academic and economic circles.

It can be said that the annual gold medal article of "The Economist" magazine means the first place in the Chinese economic article of the year.

As the world's top economic journal, almost all of the articles published in The Economist magazine are the best of the best, and the blockbuster 10,000-word long articles in each issue can even affect the economic policies of countries and even countries around the world.

The gold medal article of the year is the crown jewel and the essence of the year of The Economist magazine.

The Gold Award articles in the first two years have received global attention, and even directly affected the development of the entire economic environment.

On the one hand, this year's "Economist" magazine has been expanded, and the total number of articles has increased by more than 20% compared with previous years, and on the other hand, the quality of this year's articles has been improved overall.

Therefore, in order to select this year's gold medal articles, Li Changfeng has convened several meetings of all members of the editorial department to preliminarily frame the list of articles eligible to participate in the competition, even so, it is very difficult to pick the first place in the selection list of a total of 36 articles.

To this end, Li Changfeng specially convened a group of experts to exchange views on the selection of this year's gold medal works.

Among these experts, many are themselves authors of articles, as well as some professional research institutions, including the major shareholder of The Economist magazine, Dahua Fund Company.

This was a closed-door meeting, and Li Changfeng invited most of the authors to come, the purpose was to let everyone evaluate by themselves, so as not to be convinced by who won the gold medal when they got it.

Of course, there is still a bottom in his heart, at least so far, he still thinks that the article on the cutting-edge theory of Internet investment cooperated by Xie Changgeng and Li Feng in the third issue of this year can beat the crowd and become this year's gold medal work.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have gathered you here today to hear your opinions. Li Changfeng paused and said, "As we all know, at the end of the year, the Economist magazine will conduct the selection of the annual gold medal articles, this year is the third year, from the effect of previous years, the influence is very huge, but also shows that our gold medal articles are very heavy, in the selection process must be very cautious." ”

"So this time, we have carefully considered and discussed with the editorial department, and sorted out a list of 36 articles, and I came to you today to listen to your opinions, to see which articles on this list are recognized by you, and then gradually screen them to select this year's Gold Award articles. ”

After Li Changfeng finished speaking, he took a sip of tea, and then looked around.

In previous years, the selection of the Gold Award was not so complicated, mainly because the total number of articles in previous years was small, and the selection method was relatively simple, that is, all the editors of the editorial department voted to select the one with the largest number of votes.

However, this method has been criticized by some people, as the most influential economic journal in the industry, the articles in the "Economist" magazine are directly related to the academic status of the author, so the gold content of this gold medal is quite high, and the author of the two gold medal articles in previous years has also become famous in the academic circle, becoming the top celebrity in the economic circle and the academic circle.

This makes those slightly selected authors a little resentful, after all, it is difficult to have a quantitative index for the quality of the article, and the evaluation criteria are also very one-sided, and the convincing power is insufficient, giving people a feeling of black-box operation.

This feeling is very bad, if a large number of authors show doubts about this selection, it will undoubtedly weaken the social trust of The Economist magazine, and instead of benefiting the magazine, it will bring negative effects, which is not the original intention of the magazine to hold the gold medal selection.

Therefore, in order to be more fair and just, especially to convince the big names who participated in the election, this selection canceled the original method of voting by editors, and instead invited authors and experts to have a discussion, so that everyone can speak freely and exchange their views.

In this way, the final selection of gold medal articles is the result of everyone's discussion, even if anyone wants to be unconvinced, there is no way, at least no longer criticize the magazine.

Xu Jinlin, chairman of Dahua Fund Company, sat next to Li Changfeng, his shiny head turned around, and looked at the group of big coffee authors in front of him.

As the major shareholder of The Economist magazine, UOB Fund has a great say in the work of the magazine. After all, these articles can deeply affect the development direction of the market, and Dahua Fund has also formed a momentum in investment with the help of the "Economist" magazine, so that many investment projects have been generally favored by the market and achieved fame and fortune.

And what annoyed Xu Jinlin this time was that the 10,000-word blockbuster long article of the third issue of the magazine this year actually printed Li Feng as an assistant author on the author column, although the main writer of this article was Xie Changgeng, but Li Feng undoubtedly took advantage of this opportunity to become fierce.

It can even be said that the reason why Li Feng will be prosperous this year is inseparable from the market position established by this article. If it weren't for the sudden popularity of this article, and even the attention of the Global Economic Leaders Forum, Li Feng would definitely not have been recognized by the market, and his entrepreneurial project would have been greatly discounted.

Now Li Feng has become an important obstacle to the United Overseas Fund, as the major shareholder of the "Economist" magazine, Xu Jinlin is very unhappy with the magazine's behavior of praising Li Feng, but he can't put it on the table, so he has endured it.

But this time the selection of the annual gold medal article, Xie Changgeng and Li Feng jointly wrote a 10,000-word long essay on the list, and ranked first on the list, although this list is not in order, but Li Changfeng's ranking has expressed his psychological tendency very obviously, that is, he intends to give the 2002 gold medal article to Xie Changgeng and Li Feng.

Although there is no contradiction between Xu Jinlin and Xie Changgeng, this is absolutely impossible.

"Well, I'll talk about my opinion first. Xu Jinlin took the microphone and said.