Chapter 272: The Death of Scientific Research
"Your title of the richest man in the world doesn't seem to be easy to use!" Li Zhi said with a smile as he looked at Li Xuan.
"On the surface, the conditions we have given are much better than Liu Junliang's current salary! But his current job is equivalent to an iron rice bowl, although the income is not high, but no matter whether he is born, old, sick or dead, the state will be responsible for him for the rest of his life. If you have a child, you can send it to the kindergarten affiliated to the unit, and if the child grows up in the future, if you apply for Beijing University of Posts and Posts, you can also be given priority admission.
If you are sick, you can be reimbursed for your medical expenses, and if you are retired, you can receive your retirement salary. Even when an old man in the family dies, trade union cadres will come to the door to offer condolences! These are hidden benefits that are not included in the salary under the national system! And Liu Junliang, with his excellent performance in the DS-2000 project, will definitely be valued by the leaders of BUPT, and the future is bright.
But if he resigns and joins Dongfang Electronics, it means giving up his current stable life and accepting new life challenges, which will naturally bring huge risks!" Li Xuan shook his head and explained. In a few years, foreign companies will become fragrant buns, but now foreign companies are still a strange unknown for most Chinese.
"You're right, when my father and mother divorced when I was a child, the leaders of both units and the cadres of the neighborhood committees came to persuade and mediate several times. The relationship between people in China, the units and communities are effectively organized, and I sometimes think that it is indeed more humane than Hong Kong, which only recognizes money!" Li Zhi said, "What if this Professor Liu finally refuses?"
"If you refuse, you refuse, who will turn this earth away!" Li Xuan said in a very indifferent tone.
"But I think the company still attaches great importance to him. Even you, the big boss, have come out in person?" asked Lizhi with some puzzlement.
"Because he's already embodied the value of being respected. In the next few years, the DS-2000 digital program-controlled switch is likely to generate sales of hundreds of millions of yuan in the domestic market! All have a systematic program. I was assigned the task of communicating with him in person today, and it was just one part of the whole digging process!
Based on information collected within the company. Liu Junliang's family was very tight on housing, and his parents came to Beijing to help him take care of the children, and the family of five or six people was crammed into a school dormitory of less than 50 square meters. If he is willing to join the Oriental Research Institute, the office of the Oriental Commercial Company in the capital will immediately solve the housing problem for him.
At the same time, despite the success of the DS-2000 project, the impact of these results is limited until they are translated into real sales. Perhaps the leaders of the Beijing University of Posts and Posts will value him more and promote him. Increase his research funding. However, the scientific research conditions provided by BUPT are certainly far from being compared with the treatment of the current DS-2000 project team.
You must know that even teachers from Tsinghua University and Peking University must go through a very cumbersome application process if they want to apply for scientific research of more than 10,000 yuan. And the scientific research environment given to him by our Oriental Research Institute will only be better than that of the DS-2000 project team, after all, it is only a cooperative project.
According to the agreement between the two parties, except for the research results that belong to us, other inputs belong to BUPT. We can't make wedding dresses for others. In such a cooperative project, the purchase of large-scale cutting-edge equipment can easily cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions of dollars!
As the saying goes, it is difficult to make money from luxury, Liu Junliang and his team are accustomed to the scientific research conditions that they did not need to worry about funding before, so they can return to the previous situation where they need to worry about five or ten yuan. It's going to be uncomfortable!
These are all strong arguments for us to convince Liu Junliang, but it doesn't matter if he finally refuses, just find another researcher with potential! In order to recruit really powerful bulls, we were forced to recruit from Taiwan, Britain, the United States, and other places! There are not a lot of potential researchers, what is really lacking is an excellent platform for them to show their strength!" Li Xuan said indifferently.
Some people hailed the 80s in China as the "spring of science and technology". After the state put things in order, universities resumed enrollment and scientific research institutes resumed research. From the central government to the local level, the slogan of "science and technology is the primary productive force" has been shouted loudly. But the reality is far from being as rosy as it seems.
At the end of the seventies, when the national economy was on the verge of collapse, the state invested 2.32% of the entire GDP in scientific research. After that, the domestic economy began to slowly improve, but the investment in scientific research funds was cut again and again. From 2.32% in 1979, it fell all the way to 0.6% in the mid-80s, and hovered at this low level for more than ten years.
It was the honeymoon period between China and the United States, and Western countries relaxed export restrictions at home. Because there is an obvious generation gap between domestic technology and foreign advanced level, a large number of research projects have been forced to dismount under the idea that it is better to buy them than to buy them abroad, and funds have been used to introduce advanced foreign ready-made products.
The most famous example of this is the Yun-10 aircraft, which overcame numerous difficulties since the project was established in 1970, but was forced to ground its flight in 1986 because it was unable to raise 30 million yuan in fuel costs. A very important reason for this is that certain central ministries and commissions are more optimistic about cooperation with the United States and have invested funds in cooperation between the Shanghai Aircraft Factory and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation of the United States.
China expects to assemble parts first, and then localize it step by step, and finally achieve the goal of being able to produce advanced large aircraft by itself. And the end result is that the Americans have been pitted. After the first batch of aircraft was assembled domestically, McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing. Boeing decisively canceled its cooperation with China, because it was clearly more profitable to sell the whole machine.
It is precisely because of the lack of national investment in scientific research in the eighties and nineties that a new term called "brain-body upside down" appeared in society. Those who engage in missiles are not as good as those who sell tea and eggs. The sorrow of this kind of knowledge can only occur in China.
Even in the 21 st century, the "strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education" has been written into the basic national policy, and the salaries, incomes, and social status of professors in China are still far inferior to those of Hong Kong and Taiwan. Of course, academic corruption had already begun to run rampant at that time.
As long as domestic professors can apply for projects, the overall income is no less than that of their counterparts in Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the gray benefits obtained from enriching their own pockets from scientific research funds after making false accounts. But this was achieved on the basis of the practice of science and law, and at the cost of being a professor, an otherwise respected position, became a "beast".
At the same time, the subsequent evil result of the atrophy of scientific research is the loss of the original soil of the whole society, so the cottage has become the mainstream. Those who engage in R&D in a down-to-earth manner are starving to death, and those who engage in crooked ways and misappropriation doctrines have become rich. Universities should be the core force of original research and development, but when a famous domestic university with a history of 110 years habitually plagiarizes other people's ideas even a school anniversary promotional video, it shows how much the domestic spirit of innovation has been lost.
Li Xuan hopes to change this sad situation, but the issues involved are too complicated, not only the problem of capital investment, but also legal protection, social concepts and many other factors. On the premise of not harming his own interests, he is willing to beat the side drum and do his part.
"I heard that Huo Sheng was a lot haggard for this White Swan Hotel! Not long ago, he finally asked Ye Shuai for help and got rid of the anti-aircraft anti-aircraft gun on the roof of the hotel!" Li Xuan turned his head and said to the boss sitting in the back row. Everyone was taking the car to the place where Mr. Huo Yingdong had a banquet for Li Xuan, the White Swan Hotel.
The White Swan Hotel is the first Sino-foreign joint venture five-star hotel in China. At the 1979 Guangdong Fair, Mr. Huo Yingdong felt that there was no high-end hotel in the mainland for receiving merchants, so he decided to build a new five-star hotel in Guangdong at the invitation of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.
Like the Zhaolong Hotel in Beijing, after the establishment of the White Swan Hotel, it also shirked each other among the central ministries and commissions, and the approval to start construction was delayed. In the end, it was a certain leader of the central government who spoke and asked the eastern Guangdong province to directly throw off the ministries and commissions and raise funds to build on their own. When the joint venture project first started, it caused a lot of repercussions in Hong Kong and was considered a sign of the mainland government's further deepening of reforms.
However, crossing the river by feeling the stones, there will definitely be a series of problems. For example, according to the regulations in the mainland, high-rise buildings must be equipped with air defense units. However, the top one or two floors of high-end hotels are mostly used to decorate as luxurious presidential suites to receive VIPs. The VIP room has an anti-aircraft gun overhead, and this is not a war era, just imagine who would want to stay in such a presidential suite.
Li Xuan smiled and shook his head, Huo Yingdong, as the most famous red capitalist in Hong Kong, naturally had to charge ahead at this time and prove to others that the mainland's reform and opening up policy was firm and sincere. And the pioneers who are the first will definitely be counterattacked by the conservative and stubborn forces, and only Huo Sheng himself knows the bitterness and sweetness.
Last night, Mr. Huo Yingdong called him again and invited him to go to the White Swan Hotel for dinner at noon. The five-star hotel has been fully completed and is ready to open for trial opening before the Cantonese Fair next month. So, Huo Sheng invited him to help visit and guide him today.
Huo Yingdong also said on the phone that he was not the only guest he invited, but also invited the first secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, the governor, the first secretary of the Yuezhou Municipal Party Committee and others. Li Xuan immediately understood what the other party meant, and it was the people from Eastern Guangdong Province who really wanted to see him. After all, although his previous moves in Huhai were not reported, he still could not escape the eyes of those who had a heart.
Since Li Xuan is willing to cooperate with Huhai City, why can't he cooperate with Guangdong Province. After all, it is closer to Hong Kong, and the culture and language are the same as Hong Kong, so it should have more advantages. (To be continued......)