Soon, Christmas came.

As the capital of a province and a first-tier city in China, Hangzhou's festive atmosphere is still quite heavy, with snowflakes, evergreen rings (Christmas rings), bells, and ribbons hanging on the streets and alleys.

Christmas in Hangzhou is a different kind of Christmas, at least for Xiao Yue'er, it's fun.

But Li Zetian told her, "The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival!"

Xiao Yue'er looked at Li Zetian curiously with a pair of bright and big eyes, "Dad, what is the Spring Festival?"

When Li Zetian heard this, he was suddenly stunned, the children of the Chinese actually do not know about the Spring Festival? It is really ridiculous to say it, but it is also a fact.

"The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with the traditional name of New Year. Yue'er, do you know that Chinese Spring Festival has a history of more than 4,000 years......"

"More than 40,000 years of history?!" Xiao Yue'er was surprised when she heard this, and she pulled her little finger, feeling that she couldn't count the points.

"Dad, Dad, tell me about this Spring Festival again!" Xiao Yue'er pestered Li Zetian and said, it could be seen that at this moment, she was full of curiosity about the Spring Festival.

Li Zetian smiled, held her in his arms, touched her little head, and began to tell the story of the Spring Festival, "The Spring Festival has lasted for more than 4,000 years, and it has flourished day by day, highlighting the inherent charm and vitality of Chinese culture. The values it contains are an important guarantee for the Chinese civilization to become the only ancient civilization in the world that has survived to this day, and it is also a solid foundation for the rise of today's China......"

A few minutes later, after listening to Li Zetian's words, Xiao Yue'er couldn't help but be full of yearning for the Spring Festival, and couldn't help asking, "Dad, when are we going to celebrate the Spring Festival?"

Li Zetian touched her little head again and smiled: "Hehe, it's early, there are still two months!"

……

After coming to Hangzhou, Li Zetian was not idle, and he mentioned before that he wanted to establish the Hangzhou branch of Chronos University in Hangzhou. He found the Hangzhou government and explained his intentions, and when the other party heard that it was actually a university, and it was run according to the scale of a top university, he was immediately overjoyed, and expressed his support at that time, and set aside a large area as a school land, and Li Zetian invested nearly 1 billion US dollars to run this school.

Running a school is actually very profitable, for example, Harvard University, with a revenue budget of about $3 billion in 2017 alone, with a yield of 8.5%, is the richest university in the world. Other universities are certainly lucrative, even if not as rich as Harvard.

However, Li Zetian doesn't look down on this money, what he values is talent.

China has a population of 1.3 billion, and with such a huge population base, it stands to reason that China has a lot more talent than the United States. But the truth is that the United States has gathered some of the world's best talent. In addition to the influx of global talent to the United States, the quality of teaching in American schools is also important.

To put it mildly, China's education is cramming, blindly emphasizing the laying of a solid foundation, resulting in a lot of mechanical repetitive work, and the result is that it has created batches of high-scoring and low-ability talents, and it is difficult to train world-class scientists. Foreign education, on the other hand, focuses on cultivating students' hands-on ability and innovation ability.

Li Zetian is still more inclined to foreign education concepts.

Chronos University, which has already established itself as a world-class university in Hong Kong, is not starting from scratch when it comes to establishing a campus in Hangzhou. Li Zetian believes that there will be many outstanding students who are willing to enter this school.

After the matter was negotiated, Li Zetian also discussed one matter with the Hangzhou government.

After hearing this, the leaders of Hangzhou City were stunned.

"City Brain?!"

"Yes, that's right, it's the city brain, in fact, it's the use of artificial intelligence and big data to govern the city!" Li Zetian was afraid that the leaders of Hangzhou would not understand, so he explained in more detail, "The city brain is a large platform for government departments and enterprises to open up information checkpoints and build shared data for urban governance." The core system of the platform is the artificial intelligence technology of Chronos Industries, which can conduct global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and eventually evolve into a super artificial intelligence capable of governing the city. ”

"The first step of the City Brain project team is to digitize all infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water supply, connect the data resources scattered in various units of the city, and open up the 'neural network'. Taking transportation as an example, through the construction of field perception devices such as cameras, perception devices, and monitoring, as well as the algorithm application of urban traffic big data, the first application of AI technology in the field of urban brain transportation can be realized. At that time, tens of billions of urban traffic management data, public service data, operator data, and Internet data will be centrally input into Hangzhou's 'City Brain', and these data will become the origin of the wisdom of 'City Brain'!"

Li Zetian swept his eyes and said confidently: "I believe that with the development of the City Brain Project, the development of world cities will undergo a very big change, and the City Brain will become a very important infrastructure for future cities, which will bring greater convenience and imagination to our future lives......! Is Hangzhou the first city to make such an attempt?"

Achievement!

Achievement!!

Achievement!!!

At this time, these are the things that are on the minds of the officials.

“Mr· Li, Hangzhou is an enterprising city and a city that dares to innovate. So, we're willing to give it a try!"

"The spirit of Hangzhou is to dare to be the first!!"

“……”

The officials expressed their support, and in the end, the mayor said: "However, this project is very difficult, I'm afraid it will require a lot of expenses...... After speaking, his eyes turned to Li Zetian.

Damn, I'll help Hangzhou build a city brain, and you still want me to pay for it?!

Li Zetian was a little speechless. Of course, he is also out of selfishness, and getting a city brain out can not only accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, the use of Chronos Industries' artificial intelligence, to a certain extent, is equivalent to Li Zetian obtaining a part of the city's management rights. Isn't the city brain monitoring the entire city the same as monitoring the entire city?

If Hangzhou City Brain is successful and the effect is obvious, then it will be much easier to promote it to other cities. At that time, it will be these cities that take the initiative to cooperate with Li Zetian and want to give money!

But at the moment, we can't just let the Hangzhou government take advantage, it's okay to ask for money, but we must come up with compensation. Li Zetian was shrewd, he said lightly: "Mayor, I am very optimistic about the City Brain project, and I hope it can be successful." I know it's hard and it costs a lot of money, but I can 'lend' money to the government, but ......"

GDP is the most important part of the evaluation of local officials, for the sake of political performance, in order to be promoted, local officials boldly began to use "future money" to do the current project, they built a large number of buildings, concentrated on big things, built roads, developed real estate, run schools, transportation, ...... If you don't have enough money, of course you have to borrow. Therefore, it is the norm for the government to borrow money. However, the state generally does not allow local governments to issue bonds, so local governments use a special kind of "state-owned enterprises" to raise funds, so as to achieve disguised borrowing.

At this time, when the mayor heard that Li Zetian was going to borrow money from the government, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he hurriedly asked, "But what ?!!?"

"First of all, in business, I have to calculate the loan interest, and secondly, I want to use my company's products for most of the basic equipment to build the city brain, such as cameras, cables, network equipment, etc. ”

"No problem, no problem!" the mayor and the others looked at each other and agreed, these two requests were not too much.