"Not long ago, when I talked to Secretary Liang, he mentioned that the Deep Sea Special Zone is currently facing a shortage of talents. Because of the lack of management personnel and technical personnel, many overseas investors dare not act rashly!

In fact, this is also one of the most important factors restricting Dongfang Electronics from expanding its investment in the mainland! Taking the RCA CRT factory as an example, most of the middle and senior technical personnel and management personnel in the factory are from Hong Kong or the United States.

It's not because we discriminate against people in the country, you know, for a capitalist like me, as long as you can create enough benefits for me, I don't care if you are an angel or a demon!"

Li Xuan said self-deprecatingly, causing everyone to chuckle, and the atmosphere in the room seemed to be a little lighter!

Li Xuan paused, and then continued: "Some people say that this is because the country has been poisoned by ten years of turmoil, resulting in a shortage of talents, but I don't think so, just from the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977 to the present, the number of higher education talents admitted to the college entrance examination in China has exceeded 2.2 million. That's almost half the population of Hong Kong!

At this stage, only a handful of people in China have access to higher education, but China has a huge population of 1 billion. Even if we put aside the turmoil of the past 10 years, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to the present, the cumulative population of people who have received higher education is at least 5 million, and these are all talents under the age of 50 who are in the prime of life!"

"Then in your opinion, Mr. Li, what is our problem? The units below are shouting to the central government every day that they are short of people!" asked Deng Lao with interest.

"I personally believe that the system of the domestic planned economy. It has restricted the rational flow of human resources, including human resources, and has begun to curb the continued development of China's economy! The dilemma of being poor and blank in the early days of the founding of New China is the national system under the planned economy. You can gather the strength of the whole country to do great things to the greatest extent!

But as China's economy as a whole grows larger, this rigid system will become more and more inadequate! As the first batch of post-Cultural Revolution universities began to graduate in 1982, according to China's distribution system, scientific research institutes were among the big players to take over these new blood.

But as I mentioned before, the amount of money China has spent on research in recent years has not been optimistic. This has created a dilemma, that is, these newly recruited scientific research personnel simply cannot apply for sufficient funds to carry out research! They are full of enthusiasm to contribute to China's modernization cause. But I can only look up to the sky and sigh, wasting my most precious youth drinking tea, reading newspapers, and sleeping!"

"Mr. Li, your words are a bit too alarmist!" The one next to him was wearing a cyan tunic. The gray-haired old man said with a frown.

"General Wang, whether it is alarmist or not, you can send someone to investigate! In the past few years, China's scientific research institutions have generally had difficulty in operating. Many units have only enough money to cover their daily payroll expenses. There is simply no ability to carry out scientific research activities!

In the past, Dongfang Electronics deliberately recruited some talents for our domestic CRT factory, PCB factory, and communication equipment factory, but most of them failed! Among them, the communication equipment factory was a joint venture between us and the state-owned enterprises in Shanghai, and finally the Huhai Municipal Government came forward to coordinate, so that we were able to mobilize some outstanding technical personnel!

However, even though the wages offered by the CRT and PCB factories established solely by us in the Deep Sea Special Economic Zone were much higher than those of their original units, they were still rejected! Because our enterprises could not provide a series of benefits other than wages, such as medical insurance, pension insurance, and housing allocation!

This is not to say that we are a black-hearted enterprise, on the contrary, we are very willing to assume the social responsibility that the enterprise should shoulder! For example, in Hong Kong, although the government does not have a mandatory social security policy. But we in the Eastern Group have set up our own MPF.

Raise salaries and put the increased wages of employees into the MPF. Handed over to a dedicated team for investment appreciation! On the premise of not reducing the income of employees, it adds a guarantee for the future of employees!

But in China, although the cost of medical treatment can be reimbursed for the medical expenses of enterprise employees, and workers have retirement wages after retirement, the way it works is very different from that of Western social security systems!

For example, in the United States, the subsidiaries of the Oriental Group purchase medical insurance for their employees from commercial insurance institutions! Most of the pension insurance paid for employees is managed by special pension funds!

In China, we can't find a similar organization at all! We have asked the relevant departments of the SAR for help, but we have no way to pay the fees because there is no relevant legislation in China!" Li Xuan said very helplessly.

In fact, in this regard, China has begun to formulate relevant policies, and Li Xuan is just taking this opportunity to complain. If there is attention at the highest level, the efficiency of the relevant departments will be very different.

In Hong Kong, the human resources department of Dongfang Electronics Group organizes special information sessions at various universities and tertiary colleges in Hong Kong before the arrival of the graduation season every year. Introduce the company's development, future planning, this year's recruitment positions and a series of questions to the fresh graduates in detail!

We will let everyone have a full understanding of Dongfang Electronics, so as to decide whether to apply for the positions provided by Dongfang Company! In fact, Dongfang Group has been the most competitive job seeker in Hong Kong for several consecutive years!

The graduates who can join the Oriental Group are the best elites in Hong Kong! In the same way, the staff we recruit in Taiwan, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and other places are all graduates of prestigious universities from all over the world!

However, in China, we have encountered a very embarrassing situation! Foreign companies are not in the plans of the relevant departments, so we cannot assign fresh college students at all! Like the RCA CRT factory before, many of the technical talents we require are directly intercessed by the Guangdong Provincial Government and intercepted from the graduates of various colleges and universities in Guangdong Province!

Although we know that the provincial government of eastern Guangdong has done its best, the quality of these personnel is far from satisfactory to us. Many jobs that require a college degree are eventually stuffed up by college graduates!" Li Xuan continued to complain.

"For us, reform and opening up is also crossing the river by feeling the stones, and we need to accumulate experience bit by bit! Mr. Li, the questions you raised today are very good. We will do our best to start researching and solving it. The Chinese Government's stance of welcoming foreign investment will never change!" Deng Lao listened very carefully to what Li Xuan said. He nodded and said.

"The Oriental Group has just submitted a plan to the Shenhai Municipal Government to build an industrial base with an annual output of 10 million TVs led by RCA. Unlike most foreign-funded enterprises, we are willing to truly regard China as an important foundation for the future of the group!

The Oriental Group is optimistic about China's development prospects for a long time to come, so our investment in the mainland is not for quick success, but for the long term! For Dongfang Electronics, we believe that the most meaningful thing is not China's market, nor is it the preferential land and tax policies given by local governments. It is the introduction and reserve of talents!

But there is no market for the free flow of talent in China today! If it were in the United States, as long as the Oriental company could offer a sufficiently attractive salary. There will be countless master's and doctoral students from Harvard, Yale, and Stanford universities vying to apply for jobs! As long as the conditions we give are good enough, it is not difficult to poach the best technical talents from industry giants such as IBM and Deyi!

In China, we are also eager for Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, and other prestigious universities that bring together China's top talents. We can open the door like the Oriental Bloc! Only by continuously absorbing the best talents. It is the secret of a group's long-term prosperity!

Therefore, I would like to make a request to Mr. Deng here, hoping that the Oriental Group can be used as a pilot to hold job fairs in colleges and universities in China during this year's graduation season! Of course, higher education in China is free of charge, and the purpose is to train talents for the country! After all, our Oriental Company is foreign capital, and when we sign employment contracts with students, we are willing to pay a certain amount of personnel training fees to the relevant departments!" Li Xuan said the first purpose of tonight.

For Li Xuan's requirements. Deng Lao thought for a while before raising his head and smiling at Li Xuan. He said: "Mr. Li's suggestion, I can convey it to the relevant comrades of the Ministry of Education. It's up to them to negotiate with Mr. Li and try to come up with a mutually acceptable solution!"

Deng Lao did not give a clear answer, but in Li Xuan's opinion, he did not object, so he said that there was something to be done, and all that remained was how to send people to fight with the Ministry of Education! As long as the Ministry of Education could open this opening, the Eastern Bloc would naturally devise a whole set of plans to attract students and strive to catch the best elites!

The request he made just now to let the Oriental Group directly recruit graduates from domestic colleges and universities was just a temporary mention by Li Xuan! In fact, his real purpose before coming tonight was to focus on the next thing.

"A year ago, Mr. Shu Bai approached me and told me that he wanted to build a real university in Chinese mainland. Learn the combination of production, learning and research in Silicon Valley to promote the development of China's electronics industry!

Although I hit it off with him at the time, I really just paid lip service to the support at the beginning. But now I hope to join this action with a more positive attitude! In the previous communication with Secretary Liang, he was also willing to provide the greatest support to the new university on behalf of the Shenhai Special Economic Zone!" Li Xuan said suddenly.

Shu Bai approached Li Xuan not long ago, and his recent communication with the Ministry of Education has not been smooth. With Li Xuan's strong support, Shu Bai is no longer short of funds, so he hopes to take more initiative in the planning of the university. A series of demands put forward by Shu Bai not to set up a youth league committee and party committee in the new university have touched the sensitive nerves in China.

This is not what Li Xuan wants to see, he has hinted to Shu Bai euphemistically before, hoping that he will not touch some policy red lines in the mainland, but the other party obviously takes Li Xuan's words as a deaf ear.

Therefore, Li Xuan decided to simply put aside the statement and go into battle himself! If a first-class university can be built in the mainland, it will be of immeasurable significance to the future development of the Eastern Bloc!

It was only in the 80s, when the country had just begun reform and opening up, and the economic conditions were relatively difficult, that the top level of the central government was willing to make all kinds of policy attempts. After the nineties, domestic policies have actually become more conservative, and Li Xuan will not have this opportunity at all!

"Of course, starting a university is never an easy task. As the chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, I am deeply aware of this! The construction of a university is inseparable from the support of the government, and since the political system of each country is different, the design scheme of the university must naturally conform to the actual national conditions.

On this point, I have a certain disagreement with Mr. Shu Bai! I don't think China needs a maverick university, but it needs a university with an international vision! Universities, universities, the core focus should be on "learning"!

No matter what kind of structure a school adopts, only when it has made proud academic achievements can it truly occupy a place among the world's universities! The Oriental Group has good cooperative relations with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, Stanford University, and Columbia University in the United States.

We can provide some help for the international academic exchange and cooperation of the new school! At the beginning, on behalf of the Eastern Group, I pledged to donate 50 million US dollars to Professor Shubai. On this basis, I am willing to increase the donation of 30 million US dollars in my personal name! At the same time, I am also willing to actively contact colleagues from all walks of life in Hong Kong to contribute to the glorious cause of education!" Li Xuan said very confidently.

The donation of $80 million is enough for the central leadership to carefully consider his opinion. Moreover, Li Xuan is not a statement of Bai, if he comes forward to raise donations, the effect will definitely be able to throw off a few streets of statement Bai.

Li Xuan also hinted that he was not prepared to be a maverick and was willing to follow China's national conditions. As for China's national conditions, it is natural to unswervingly uphold the leadership of the CPC-Industrial Party! Li Xuan does not want to be a politician and does not want to be too involved in politics. Even if he is forced to contact the government, he is only escorting his business empire!

Deng Lao is no stranger to Shu Bai's idea of running a school, and he once met the other party in person two years ago. Previously, the Ministry of Education also reported some of Bai's views on running schools to the central government.

To tell the truth, the opposition within the party is very great! Our party has always attached great importance to the leadership of the students, and if there are no party organizations and league organizations in the universities, how can the students' thinking still move closer to the party, and how can we train successors! Therefore, many comrades resolutely oppose this opening!

The reason why the central government did not directly reject Shu Bai's idea at that time was entirely because he had raised more than $50 million in donations. This is already a lot of money for China today, so we hope that the comrades of the Ministry of Education can do the ideological work of the statement of Bai! (To be continued......