SUSTech and Shenhai University were established one after the other, and the campuses of the two universities are only separated by a road, so it is inevitable that they will be compared together.

Behind Shenzhen University is the strong support of the Shenhai Special Administrative Region government, and the 50 million yuan of construction funds allocated to the university are all squeezed out of the municipal budget, and the state and province have not given a penny.

Behind SUSTech stands the world's richest man "God of Wealth Li", and SUSTech's first donation came from the Eastern Group. Oriental Group donated US$50 million to SUSTech, of which the first tranche of US$30 million was disbursed in a lump sum last year when the school's preparatory committee was just established. The remaining $20 million will be disbursed over four years starting this year.

Li Xuan's public welfare fund, Donghai Fund, subsequently promised to donate 25 million US dollars to SUSTech every year starting from the 1985 academic year to maintain daily operations, for a duration of 10 years, and a total of 250 million US dollars will be donated to SUSTech.

Li Xuan alone has pledged $300 million, and another unofficial member of SUSTech's five executive directors, Huo Lao, known as the "red capitalist", has also donated $10 million in one go.

In addition, 6 of the 10 non-executive directors have invited a number of Hong Kong celebrities to join. Among them is Macau gambling champion Mr. Ho Hung Sun, who pledged HK$40 million to build a new library for SUSTech. Mr. Xu Shixun also pledged HK$30 million on behalf of the Hsu family to build a new gymnasium for SUSTech. Mr. Shao Yifu also pledged 30 million Hong Kong dollars to build a new administrative building for SUSTech.

In addition, with the efforts of two executive directors, Li Xuan and Huo Yingdong, fundraising. Hong Kong and Kowloon tycoons such as Guo Desheng, Bao Yugang, and Li Jiacheng have also donated generously. As of June this year, SUSTech has raised funds without counting the $250 million pledged by Li Xuan. It has been as high as 315 million Hong Kong dollars (about 40 million US dollars).

With the funds allocated by Li Xuan, the actual cash in SUSTech's account has reached 100 million US dollars. Such a strong fund-raising ability is also the fundamental strength of Li Xuan's ability to persuade the central leadership to agree to the establishment of an out-of-system experimental university in the Special Economic Zone.

It was only in the 80s, when the country was extremely short of funds, and the central leadership was in the era of crossing the river by feeling the stones and bravely carrying out various reform attempts, that an institution of higher learning similar to a private university in the West such as the Southern University of Science and Technology had a chance to be established. If you go back another ten years. When the national policy is tightened, even if Li Xuan is willing to spend more money, it will be useless.

And now the high-level leaders of the Central Committee are also very generous, since they agree with Li Xuan's idea of preparing to build an experimental university. simply left the preparatory work for the establishment of the new university to Li Xuan to be responsible. But Li Xuan was very careful to control the scale of his own intervention with the Eastern Bloc.

The purpose of his preparation for the establishment of SUSTech is to provide for the future development of the Eastern Group. Look for a support point for academic and scientific research. As long as SUSTech is built in the deep-sea special zone. For Li Xuan and the Oriental Group, they have already gained a home advantage, and they are not afraid of other competitors to compete for influence on SUSTech.

As for completely taking SUSTech into his own hands, Li Xuan had no such plan at all, and he did not dare to have this plan. Education is actually a very sensitive area for a country. Later generations of China only established a few Confucius Institutes in the United States to promote the Chinese language, and many professors and congressmen in the United States constantly attacked the Chinese government with bad intentions.

Not to mention that Li Xuan is now established as a school. An institution of higher learning that cultivates elites and pillars for the country. Although his potential threat cannot be as big as that of a country, there are some things that Li Xuan is willing to take the initiative to avoid suspicion. So in the highest deliberative body he built for SUSTech - the school board of trustees. The five executive directors with voting rights, with three official representatives occupying three seats, are fully capable of deciding all affairs of SUSTech.

In the administrative management of SUSTech, the provost in charge of student teaching is the former provost of Peking University. The vice-president in charge of the day-to-day management of the university is a deputy general manager from China Merchants Hong Kong. The Treasurer, who is responsible for the financial affairs of the school, is the head of the Compliance Department of BOCHK.

When Li Xuan formed the management of SUSTech, he also thought about it a lot. On the one hand, it is necessary to consider integration with the current higher education system in China, and on the other hand, it is necessary to give the management an international perspective. And most importantly, the management of the new university must be of the same mind as the state!

Therefore, in the entire administrative leadership of SUSTech, except for the candidate for president, no one in Li Xuan has used anyone outside the system. For example, Bank of China (Hong Kong) and China Merchants Hong Kong are both large state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong.

His way of selecting materials based on business and excellence should be regarded as a very rare situation in China. Normally, it is not uncommon in China for university presidents from the education department to be transferred to the administrative department as ministers, or for the ministers of the administrative department to be transferred to a certain university as presidents. However, it is very rare for the CEO of a commercial state-owned enterprise to be transferred to a university as the president, or the university president of the education department to take charge of a large state-owned enterprise!

Li Xuan also agrees that higher education should be for the public good, not overly commercialized. But he also believes that a successful university must also have good business genes. Because if a school wants to continue to grow, it needs to be profitable.

China's universities now have a single source of finance, relying almost entirely on government funding. The situation of SUSTech is more special, the reason why the central government agreed to Li Xuan to establish this university was because he had the ability to raise funds on his own.

Therefore, SUSTech will continue to rely on corporate sponsorship and social fundraising as the main source of funds for a period of time in the future. In the two years since the establishment of SUSTech, Li Xuan can come forward to help the university hold several fundraising receptions, and everyone will also propose to sell him a few thin noodles.

However, this is not a long-term solution, and this work ultimately needs to be carried out by the management of SUSTech with their own business acumen! Therefore, when drawing up the list of management of SUSTech, Li Xuan prefers to select cadres of state-owned enterprises stationed in Hong Kong who are familiar with the rules of business and society, rather than asking a group of old scholars with solidified ideas from other universities in China.

SUSTech is on the list of senior executives. The only one who is not from the mainland is the Grand Principal. The president represents the face of a university, and the future funding of SUSTech will be raised from Hong Kong and Macao for a long time. Therefore, the president of SUSTech must be a well-known figure in Hong Kong and Macao.

Therefore, it is not appropriate to transfer from other universities in China, not to mention that in the management structure designed by Li Xuan for SUSTech, the president is not the best leader. The administrative power of the University is primarily determined by the Board of Trustees and is accountable to the Board of Trustees.

The principal is more like a mascot, and his biggest role is to represent the school to go out to solicit sponsorship, as well as carry out various foreign exchange and cooperation activities. The domestic side couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while, so they simply handed over this important task to Li Xuan to be responsible.

Li Xuan naturally wouldn't really go abroad to pull a foreign face back. His focus is on Hong Kong itself. This person must not have too many political angles, and his academic influence must be outstanding enough, so Li Xuan immediately chose his mentor, Professor Zhao Weiming.

When Li Xuan was enrolled in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Chiu Wai Ming is already the Head of the Department of Electronics at CUHK. Later, Professor Chiu became one of the key links between CUHK and Dongfang Electronics, serving as Vice Dean of the Institute of Oriental Studies and being promoted to Vice President of CUHK by the Board of Trustees of Chinese University.

What's more, the Eastern Bloc over the years. has been working hard to make a name for Zhao Weiming. The Eastern Bloc needs to have its own academic star. From the perspective of scientific research achievements, Li Xuan, who opened the rebirth plug-in and has participated in the research and development of ERM and MIPS architectures, is undoubtedly the best.

But as the big boss of the Eastern Bloc and the glorious title of the world's richest man, he is no longer a pure academic. No matter how vigorously the Oriental Group promotes, when everyone mentions the name Li Xuan, the first thing that comes to mind is still the title of "the richest man in the world".

Therefore, Li Xuan simply used all the publicity resources on Zhao Weiming's head and took the initiative to weaken his role in the ERM project. Then he worked hard to push Zhao Weiming to the status of "the father of ERM".

With the ERM architecture almost completely monopolized the market of personal computer processors, and in the fields of industrial computers, single board computers, game consoles, etc. It has also begun to be more and more widely used. The importance and influence of ERM architecture in the electronics industry are also becoming increasingly prominent.

Under the vigorous public relations propaganda of the Oriental Group, Zhao Weiming, as the "ERM", has become more and more famous in the global electronics industry! He has become a world-class master in the field of semiconductor chip design!

Professor Chiu Wai-ming, as an international academic authority and Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, is more than enough to serve as the Vice-Chancellor of a newly established university. Moreover, Zhao Weiming and Li Xuan have a teacher-student friendship, and he has established a sufficient tacit understanding with Li Xuan during his years as the vice president of the Institute of Oriental Studies.

"Governor Ye, the enrollment plan for the first batch of undergraduates at SUSTech this year is 800. According to the agreement reached between us and the State Education Commission, SUSTech will adopt the method of independent enrollment and college entrance examination enrollment at the same time to recruit students.

Among them, the proportion of college entrance examination enrollment accounts for 75%, which is 600 people. However, due to the fact that our school is also participating in the high recruitment for the first time, the mutual understanding between the school and the candidates is not enough. If there is an overcrowding of students applying for SUSTech this year, we have the right to apply to the National Education Commission to increase the admission quota by up to 20% on the basis of the original enrollment plan!

The remaining 20 percent of the self-enrollment quota is mainly carried out in the three regions of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong! This time, our independent enrollment is carried out through the principals of middle schools in these three regions and the selection of outstanding fresh graduates to participate in the independent enrollment examination.

The self-recruitment examination is divided into two parts: written examination and interview, the written examination paper is more targeted than the college examination paper, and the interview is to more intuitively examine the comprehensive quality of students in addition to their test-taking ability!" Professor Zhao Weiming, the new president of SUSTech, introduced to Ye Ping with a mouthful of Hong Kong.

"SUSTech is a university founded by Hong Kong and Macao compatriots and overseas Chinese who generously contribute money and actively support the country's education cause! It is also a useful exploration carried out by the central government on the next reform direction of domestic higher education!

Today, I have come to SUSTech to see the construction of the campus with my own eyes and have heard with my own ears the ideas of the school's top management, and I am very excited! I hope that SUSTech can break the barriers of the existing system under your leadership and create a practical and feasible new path for the reform of higher education!" Governor Ye Ping said earnestly to the school leaders before leaving SUSTech.

Li Xuan did not leave with Governor Ye Ping, but continued to stay. He also came to the Deep Sea Special Zone for another purpose, which was to attend the meeting of the board of directors of SUSTech. At this meeting, the Senate and Academic Committee will give all the trustees a detailed introduction to the state of preparation for the university!

Last spring, the Ministry of Education gave final approval for the establishment of the Southern University of Science and Technology in the Deep Sea Special Economic Zone, before the Ministry of Education changed its name to the State Education Commission. After that, Li Xuan quickly established the preparatory committee of SUSTech, and the first thing he did was to refer to the system of foreign universities, combined with the actual situation in China, to formulate the internal structure and framework of the new university.

The subsequent work was naturally to form a school board of directors, and Li Xuan used the three executive director seats to bring the State Education Commission, the Guangdong East Provincial Government and the Shenhai Special Administrative Region Government closer to the preparatory committee. Because only with the participation of official forces, the preparatory work for the establishment of SUSTech can be unimpeded, and the new university will be truly accepted by the government.

Of course, they did not join empty-handed, for example, the State Education Commission and the Guangdong Provincial Government agreed to allocate 1 million yuan each year to SUSTech in the future. Compared with the 25 million US dollars donated by the East China Sea Fund every year, this is naturally only a drop in the bucket, but what Li Xuan needs is the gesture of government involvement.

The government of the Shenhai Special Administrative Region has invested a large amount of financial funds in the construction of Shenhai University, and has no spare energy to continue to invest money in SUSTech. Li Xuan did not need funds from the municipal government, but he obtained a large amount of land for SUSTech from the SAR government, with a total area of 5.5 square kilometers.

Of this, only 1 square kilometer will be used as the campus of SUSTech, and the remaining 4.5 square kilometers of land will be gradually developed commercially. These lands are still worthless wastelands, but with the rapid development of the Deep Sea Special Zone, in twenty or thirty years, they will become a huge source of revenue for SUSTech.

It can be said that Li Xuan spared no effort for this university built by himself! (To be continued......