At the beginning of May, the wind and sun in Beijing are beautiful, neither hot nor cold, and it is the most comfortable time of the year. The small auditorium of Tsinghua University was full of people, and even the aisles were full of students who had come to join in the fun.

On the stage in front of the auditorium hung a large banner that read, "Hong Kong Oriental Group and Tsinghua University Students Special Exchange Meeting". When Mr. Deng was on his southern tour this year, Li Xuan proposed to him that he hoped that under the system of package distribution of Chinese universities, a small opening would be opened up, so that foreign-funded enterprises like the Oriental Group, which are interested in investing heavily in the mainland, could obtain a part of the high-quality human resources.

At that time, Deng Lao did not give a direct reply, but half a month later, the Dongfang Company received a notice that it could send someone to Beijing to start specific negotiations with the Ministry of Education. So Li Xuan sent a capable team to the north to negotiate at the first time.

Then the negotiations between the Eastern Bloc and the Ministry of Education did not go well, because it arguably challenged the entire Chinese university graduation distribution system.

Unlike the Chinese college students of later generations, who have long been rotten on the street, even graduate students are almost worthless. Before the expansion of higher education in the late 90s, college students had always been a scarce social resource. In the 80s, not to mention serious college graduates, even college graduates were elite talents sought-after by various employers.

Now a foreign company suddenly came to the door and said that it was going to hold a job fair at a university in China, which caused a huge controversy within the Ministry of Education. In China in the 80s, foreign companies were far from having the lofty aura of later generations.

On the one hand, it is because the domestic thinking is still relatively conservative, and in the eyes of many of the older generation, foreign enterprises are equated with capitalists. How can you make the elite pillars that the country has worked so hard to cultivate. To accept the exploitation of foreign capitalists? Isn't this a retrogression of socialism!

On the other hand, there were very few foreign companies that really entered China in the 80s. Most companies have just set up an office in China. A few salesmen are transferred from Hong Kong or Hong Kong as the backbone, and most of the secondary positions provided to domestic personnel are miscellaneous positions.

Due to the poor communication channels between China and the outside world. In the eyes of most Western executives, China is a poor, backward place, and they simply do not believe that the Chinese are capable of doing important jobs. What's more, even if they have the will, it is difficult to directly recruit people who are truly highly educated.

At first, the Dongfang Company only negotiated with the Ministry of Education, but later joined the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Labor and Personnel. Because the problems involved in the distribution of college graduates can be said to affect the whole body.

For example, there is a problem of personnel file transfer after graduation of domestic students. In the future, the files of foreign employees can be entrusted to the talent market to receive and keep on their behalf, but in the 80s, China did not have a talent market at all.

The negotiations were initially very slow, and in the end, they were personally interrogated by Mr. Deng. before it began to pick up speed. He said that reform and opening up is like crossing the river by feeling the stones, and we should not shrink our hands and feet just because we look ahead and look backward. Be brave enough to try, even if you make a mistake in the attempt, as long as you can find the problem in time and correct it seriously!

After more than two months of repeated communication, Dongfang Electronics finally reached a pilot agreement with the Ministry of Education in early May. The Ministry of Education has allowed the Oriental Company to recruit up to 50 fresh graduates in five universities in Beijing, Shanghai, and eastern Guangdong, based on the principle of student voluntariness.

For each student who signs an employment agreement with Dongfang University, Dongfang Company needs to pay 10,000 yuan to the school and the Ministry of Education to each of them as the student's entrusted training fee.

In other words. Li Xuan spent 1 million yuan to buy the right to use 50 college students in China. Of course, the word "buy" is not a good word, after all, students are not commodities. However, in the accounting of Dongfang Company, the expenditure of 20,000 yuan is included in the salary expenses.

In accordance with the labor agreements established by the Eastern Bloc. The money is only paid by the company on behalf of the graduates who choose to join Dongfang Electronics, and needs to be deducted from their salary expenses in five years. The term of the labor agreement signed between Oriental and these graduates is exactly five years.

If these graduates want to leave early in the future, they need to pay off the remaining payment fees to Oriental Company in one lump sum. Li Xuan spent so much energy. Even through Guò Deng Lao personally spoke, the Ministry of Education made a compromise. Naturally, they are not allowed to turn around, so they can pat their butts and leave easily.

"What does this Hong Kong Oriental Electronics Company do? This exchange meeting looks very grand!" asked a square-faced student in the corner of the auditorium to another roommate with glasses next to him.

"Alas. You don't want to indulge in the world of literature all day long, but you also have to open your eyes and take a look at the world! Dongfang Electronics is the most famous electronics company in Hong Kong, and its founder is called Li Xuan, who is only 24 years old this year, but he has been the richest man in the world for two consecutive years, and his personal assets are as high as $10 billion!" The classmate with glasses explained to his roommate helplessly.

"$10 billion, how much does that have to be?" said the square-faced boy with a shocked face, his big open mouth big enough to fit two or three eggs.

The other students sitting next to him also had incredible expressions on their faces when they heard the words of the bespectacled students. $10 billion, that's a lot of money! That's completely beyond the upper limit of people's perception of wealth.

A few days ago, Tsinghua teachers had already publicized today's exchange meeting to the senior students. The focus of the seminar was for the personnel of Oriental Group to introduce the specific situation of their company to Tsinghua students. After that, in line with the principle of free registration, Oriental Group will conduct individual interviews for all students who apply for registration, and finally select the best 10 students.

Dongfang Electronics' two pilot recruitment schools in Beijing are Peking University and Tsinghua University, and Peking University's related actions will be carried out later. There were hundreds of students who came to the scene today, and most of them came to join in the fun.

On a college campus in the 80s, there were no computer games, no TOEFL and IELTS, no part-time tutoring, and no employment pressure. Listening to lectures is one of the favorite extracurricular activities of students in this era. Like the square-faced man and the eyed man before, the two of them are actually just sophomores this year. It's still early to graduate, but I'm also excited to grab a seat.

"Dongfang Electronics is a large electronics group that produces computers, game consoles and integrated circuit chips! The 100 ABC computers in our school's computer room. It's a product of Dongfang Electronics! And Liu Mazi's precious GameBoy handheld game console is also a product of Dongfang Company!" The glasses man pushed the glasses that had slipped a little on the bridge of his nose. Go on.

"Didn't our school's computers be donated by the British company Aikang?" asked the square-faced student, a little curious.

Last year, iKang donated 100 ABC-3 personal computers to Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science and helped the school build three computer classrooms with internal networking.

"Aikang is a listed subsidiary of Dongfang Electronics, with a total market value of more than 8 billion US dollars, half of which is in the hands of Dongfang Electronics!" The glasses man's father is actually a director of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, so his understanding of Dongfang Electronics is far clearer than his roommate.

"Oh my God, a company is so valuable! really?" The other students in the next room finally couldn't hold back and joined the conversation.

"GameBoy is also a product of this oriental company?" the square-faced boy was clearly more interested in this.

A classmate in the dormitory next door to them. My hometown is from Guangdong Province. This year, I brought a GameBoy from home after the start of school, and it turned out that this game console became the new favorite of the whole class.

"That's right, the Oriental Group first started by making game consoles through guò, and the "Hong Kong Cubes" game you love to play is written by Li Xuan himself!" the boy with glasses nodded very convincingly.

Then he turned to the two next to him and smiled before continuing, "At the end of last year, the Eastern Group also bought an American company for $5 billion. It's only been five years since the company was founded, but it's already one of the largest groups in the world!"

Others are so well-informed about him. couldn't help but show a little admiration, which made the boy with glasses quite complacent. His home is in Beijing, and he often goes home for weekends.

Yesterday happened to be a Saturday and he went home to have dinner with his parents. I accidentally mentioned that Dongfang Electronics came to Tsinghua University for an exchange meeting, and only then did I learn a lot of stories about Dongfang Group from my father, who worked in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

He looked dumbfounded last night. It's exactly like the people next to me today. So he rushed back to school early this morning and pulled his roommate to the auditorium early to grab a seat. Get ready to get a good look at this amazing company.

And in the first row of the audience, there were also a few boys whispering there. Liu Wei and Liu Chang are part of the "Dongfanghong Exchange Program" that began three years ago. The first two Tsinghua students to go to Chinese University of Hong Kong for a one-year study exchange.

Compared with most of the students here today, they should have a better understanding of the great influence of the word "Dongfang Electronics" in the world. Originally, Liu Wei had already confirmed that he would be admitted as a graduate student by a professor at the university, but he changed his mind as soon as he learned that Dongfang Company was preparing to come to Tsinghua University to recruit fresh graduates.

He was ready to give up the opportunity to go to graduate school and choose to join the Eastern Bloc. For this reason, his class teacher, the head of the department, and the professor who admitted him all had a deep talk with him, but they failed to make him change his mind.

Three years ago, when he went to Hong Kong Chinese University for an exchange visit, the living allowance provided by Oriental Company to each mainland student was as much as 400 Hong Kong dollars per month. During his year of study in Hong Kong, he saved nearly 4,000 Hong Kong dollars in living expenses.

Liu Wei's hometown is in the countryside deep in the mountains of the southwest, and the conditions at home are very difficult. Before returning to the mainland after the exchange, he exchanged the living expenses he had saved into more than 700 US dollars to bring back to the mainland. After returning to Beijing, he slowly exchanged these dollars for nearly 3,000 yuan.

This huge amount of money not only allowed him to never ask his family for a penny of living expenses in the next three and senior years, but also sent back 2,000 yuan to his family, which greatly improved the living conditions of the whole family.

When he was studying exchange at Chinese University, he also applied for a part-time job as a miscellaneous worker in the Oriental Shiyàn Building next door. The deepest impression on him of the Oriental Group is that the treatment of its employees is so good.

For example, in the Oriental Shi Yàn Building, the restaurant provides food 24 hours a day. There is also an exquisite pastry house with fresh and delicious cakes and coffee, and a gym to work out. The snacks in everyone's desk drawer are always full, which are designated by colleagues in the company's back office department according to everyone's tastes. What's more, the salary of the Oriental Company is also considered to be the most generous in Hong Kong.

Of course, material conditions may be important, but in the eighties, when Romanticism prevailed, material comfort was by no means the only goal of life. The scientific research environment provided by the Oriental Company is even more incomparable to that in the mainland today.

During the year of exchange at CUHK, Liu Wei's biggest gain was that he greatly broadened his horizons, and he spent almost all of his time studying. After returning to Beijing after the exchange, Liu Wei brought back a suitcase of luggage, which was full of books except for a few changes of clothes.

Or it is not very appropriate to call them books, because they are copied and bound one by one on A4 copy paper. Books and periodicals in Hong Kong are not cheap, especially professional academic books and periodicals in foreign languages, which are even more expensive.

Liu Wei was naturally reluctant to spend money to buy them, so he borrowed the originals from the library of the Chinese University, and then took advantage of the fact that the photocopiers in the Dongfang Shi Yàn Building could make unlimited free copies, and secretly copied every page of these books and bound them into a book. In his year in Hong Kong, he used this kind of ingenuity to copy dozens of foreign language professional main tables and thesis materials.

At the same time, this year's learning and exchange opportunities not only greatly improved Liu Wei's ability to use English, and he could read foreign language professional papers without any obstacles, but also made his subject knowledge a huge update. He bound dozens of books with him on A4 paper, and even teachers at school often came to borrow them from him.

After Liu Wei returned to Tsinghua University, he was selected by the professors in the department at the beginning of his junior year and began to join the other party's real room to help do research. Generally speaking, only senior or graduate students who have confirmed their research are eligible to join professors' research projects to do some auxiliary work.

However, during the two years of internship in the practical room of Tsinghua University, Liu Wei fully understood the gap between the advanced level at home and abroad. As the leader of universities in the country, Tsinghua University undoubtedly receives the most adequate funding for running schools and scientific research from the state every year.

However, even at Tsinghua University, in addition to the relatively secure funding of those famous professors, it is not easy for ordinary teachers to apply for research funds of several thousand yuan, and they need to apply for approval at the first level.

In the Oriental Research Institute, the rate of small projects within 10,000 Hong Kong dollars is very high. Any researcher can apply, and generally speaking, as long as the proposal is substantial, and the project has some scientific value, it can be successfully approved.

The annual investment of the Institute of Oriental Studies is higher than that of all universities in Beijing. Just like Professor Liu Junliang of the previous Beijing University of Posts, the Institute of Oriental Studies can throw out millions of Hong Kong dollars for his project without blinking, while other teachers of Beijing University of Posts and Posts can only envy and envy on the sidelines!

In the eighties, Tsinghua students could be said to be like the emperor's daughter, but Liu Wei knew that the Eastern Bloc was definitely his best choice. In fact, it's not just him, Liu Chang next to him also has the same cognition.

Originally, Liu Chang had already inquired with his teacher that he might stay in Beijing and be assigned to work in the science and technology department, but he also decided to go to Dongfang Electronics without hesitation. (To be continued......)