Chapter 359: China-Hong Kong co-production
Liu Wei and Liu Chang invited Liu Lili to this meal, and Liu Lili introduced the process of tomorrow's interview to the two of them in detail, especially according to their different majors to give their own opinions.
Among the two, Liu Wei's personality is relatively shy, he doesn't talk much, and he is not good at expressing and communicating in front of strangers. But he majored in electronics in college, and he did it well. Liu Lili built yì He went to apply for technical research positions, and Dongfang Electronics Company's recruitment criteria for this type of position have always been to pay more attention to your academic ability than your communication ability.
Li Xuan has always preferred those pure researchers, because these "nerds" in everyone's eyes are often more focused and persistent than ordinary people.
Moreover, applying for scientific research funding within the Institute of Oriental Studies is not necessary to give gifts to pull relationships. As long as you submit a research project proposal that can be approved by the academic committee, you will be able to get the funding smoothly. There is a set of detailed and strict rules and regulations for the project funds from distribution, use to supervision, as long as you follow the process requirements step by step, no one will embarrass you.
Liu Lili's advice to Liu Wei is to focus on showing her academic performance in the university during the interview tomorrow. For example, he is fluent in reading and writing professional papers in English, and joined the professor's office as a research assistant as early as his junior year. These are some of the shining points that can win the interviewer's approval and add points.
Moreover, when Liu Wei introduced himself, he could also emphasize that he had worked part-time in the Oriental Shi Yàn Building. If he can put forward some unique ideas about the scientific research system of the Oriental Institute, whether it is worth adopting or not. It's easy to win the interviewer's immense favor.
The Oriental Research Institute is the core R&D unit in the entire Oriental Group, and its position in the entire Oriental system is far greater than that of Aikang Company and Computer Park Company, which have a market value of billions of dollars. Listed companies that look glamorous are even more important.
As for Liu Chang, he was applying for the newly established Department of Economics and Management Engineering at Tsinghua University. Tsinghua University became a pure engineering college after the major reorganization of its faculties in 1952, and it was not until 1978 that it gradually resumed disciplines such as arts and sciences, human resources and social sciences, economics and management.
Liu Chang wants to successfully apply for the Oriental Group, but it is more difficult than Liu Wei. As it was the first time that Oriental had launched a recruitment program in the mainland, it did not know what the graduates thought of Oriental Group. Therefore, there is no rigid professional restriction in the recruitment of the group, but it is flexibly adjusted according to the actual application situation of graduates. However, the general direction is to tilt towards scientific research positions.
When Liu Chang returned to the dormitory, several roommates were discussing the morning exchange meeting. Nowadays, students have a lack of extracurricular activities, so the various lectures in the school are very popular. It doesn't matter if it has anything to do with you. Everyone is willing to run and join in the fun.
"Liu Chang, is this Dongfang Electronics Company the same company that funded you when you went to Hong Kong for exchange in your sophomore year?" asked a roommate curiously.
Li Xuan nodded: "That's right, it's the largest private company in Hong Kong. Total assets exceed $20 billion!"
"Whew-!"
Several people in the dormitory gasped. There is too little contact with foreign information. Although Tsinghua Library has special funds for the purchase of foreign language periodicals. However, Tsinghua University is a college of engineering, and the school prefers engineering academic journals.
Foreign newspapers and journals of journalism, politics and economics that often report on Li Xuan and the Oriental Bloc are not included in the library's purchase list. After all, the foreign exchange allocated by Tsinghua University is also very valuable, and foreign newspapers and political and economic journals often appear in smearing reports against China, and these articles are not suitable for domestic dissemination.
"I remember, the DS-2000 project of Professor Chen Junliang of BUPT seems to have been funded and sponsored by the Institute of Oriental Studies!" said another roommate suddenly.
"The Oriental Institute is one of the subsidiaries of the Oriental Group, the British company Akon, which donated three computer classrooms to our school last year. It is also one of the subsidiaries of the Oriental Group!" Li Xuan explained.
"We all know this, you've been to Hong Kong. Tell us about the working conditions of the Oriental Bloc in Hong Kong, whether they are really as good as they are in their own films!" the roommate asked again.
"Didn't I tell you a long time ago, it's unimaginable that the environment inside the Oriental Company is good. For example, the Oriental Real Yàn Building, where I worked part-time at that time, was the scientific research building of the Oriental Research Institute in Hong Kong. The building's cafeteria is open 24 hours a day free of charge for researchers to order food at any time.
At tea time, drinks and cakes were also served, and it was like going to heaven! You people were still saying that I was bragging, and the moon in a foreign country was rounder than in China, so you almost arrested me and held a criticism meeting!" Liu Chang said angrily.
"Hehe, this is not the first time we have heard that there are capitalists who are so kind to their employees!" said a few people in the dormitory embarrassedly.
"By the way, fourth, did you really decide to sign up to work in this Hong Kong company?"
In order of age, Liu Chang ranked fourth among the people in the dormitory, and he nodded: "Well, I have this idea, but it is not certain whether I can succeed in applying for the job! The Oriental Group is mainly recruiting people for several projects in the deep-sea special zone this time, and priority is given to technical positions! Even if there are places for management positions, Peking University's reputation is greater than ours, who has only established our economics and management department for so many years!"
There was a bit of helplessness in Liu Chang's tone, and the other university that Dongfang Company was preparing to recruit on a pilot basis in Beijing was Peking University, which was next door to Tsinghua University. Compared with Tsinghua University, which is known for its engineering majors, Peking University in the early 80s was the best liberal arts university in China. China's university system was influenced by the Soviet Union's higher education system, and after the major reorganization of faculties in 1952, there were no comprehensive universities.
"You said that if we go to work in the Oriental Company, how much salary can they provide? It is said that the salary abroad is much higher than ours at home!" asked the second child in the dormitory curiously.
"As far as I know, three years ago, the lowest-paid researcher in the Institute of Oriental Studies could earn 4,000 Hong Kong dollars a month. That's about $800! But the wages offered to domestic personnel are certainly not that high!
After all, the reason why people are willing to invest in us is to save costs! But as far as I guess. There is still a monthly income of three or four hundred yuan. And it's likely that foreign exchange coupons will be issued directly instead of RMB!" Liu Chang said.
"Wow, that's so high! or a foreign exchange coupon?" said the others, somewhat disbelieving.
This level of wages is almost one to two times higher than in China. According to the current exchange rate of the renminbi against the US dollar, 400 yuan is about 200 US dollars. In 1984, the average monthly salary in the United States reached $1,200, and if you want to recruit an excellent graduate from a prestigious university in Silicon Valley, you must at least double that base.
In other words, the salary paid by the Institute of Oriental Studies can be more than ten times different from that of recruiting a researcher from Tsinghua University and a researcher from Stanford. This is also an important reason why Li Xuan hopes to absorb talents in the mainland as much as possible. In fact, the scientific research ability of Chinese students is not worse than that of American students, they just lack a good research environment.
Just when Liu Chang and Liu Wei were preparing for the next day's interview. The Second Plenary Session of the Sixth National Political Consultative Conference was grandly opened at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Among the 1,715 CPPCC members attending the Second Plenary Session of the Sixth CPPCC this year, 44 were Hong Kong and Macao deputies. And Li Xuan is one of the new CPPCC members.
Plenary session on the first day. Ms. Deng, chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made a summary report on the past year to all the deputies. The next few days were all breakout sessions. The first panel discussion was a free discussion within the Hong Kong and Macao delegations. Ms. Xi Deng, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), specially came to the Hong Kong and Macao delegation to join the discussion.
Although Li Xuan's name tag was placed in the front row, he had a calm and calm smile from beginning to end. Rarely spoke. The Sino-British negotiations are now entering a critical juncture. The chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) specially selected the Hong Kong and Macao groups to participate in dozens of groups, and the implication of this is also clear at a glance.
At this time, Li Xuan would not charge ahead. Fortunately, the meeting is not a classroom study, and there will be a teacher who will specifically name him! Li Xuan was reluctant to take the initiative to speak, and although some people were slightly disappointed, no one would deliberately force him to speak.
After Li Xuan mixed the first day of group discussions, the second day was still a group discussion, but this time it was a cross-group discussion. Li Xuan was joined by several representatives from Hong Kong and Macao. He was placed in a group with some representatives from the literary and artistic circles and the scientific and technological circles.
"Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and this great victory of the Chinese nation is the result of the sincere cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Comrade Chen Dunde, director of the Literature Department of the Guixi Film Studio, once made a suggestion. I hope to make a film that reflects the frontal resistance of the Nationalist Army, and is ready to be based on the great victory of Taierzhuang commanded by General Li Zong-Ren!" He Wei of the Guixi Film Studio proposed a proposal when talking about the strategy of cross-strait reunification.
Director He's construction has attracted heated discussions, and there are no fewer classic anti-Japanese war movies made in China, such as "Tunnel Warfare", "Mine Warfare", "Railway Guerrilla Warfare", etc., but no one has ever touched a film that positively depicts the Kuomintang-Kuomintang War of Resistance.
Moreover, due to historical reasons, for a long time, even the content of the Nationalist Government's battle against the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield in history textbooks was mostly abridged. It was not until the most recent revision of the textbook that these elements were re-added to the textbook.
"Director He said this, I think there is a film literary script in the issue of "August 1st Movie" in March this year, which is called "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang". This script is very well written, Director Liu, you can contact the two writers of the script to talk!" The person sitting next to Director Liu is none other than Zhang Jinhua, the director of Bayi Film Studio.
"Director Zhang, how can our Guixi Studio be as wealthy as your Bayi Factory! Let's not talk about whether the script can pass the review of the relevant parties, even if the state allows filming, if the Taierzhuang Battle is filmed, there will definitely be many big scenes of explosions, not only will a large number of troops be mobilized to participate in the performance, but the shooting cost will definitely be higher than that of ordinary movies. Our Guixi Studio is just a small factory, and it can't support such a grand production at all!" Director He shook his head at Zhang Jinhua with a wry smile.
Li Xuan was sitting behind the two of them, so when he heard the private exchange between the two, he couldn't help but have a gleam in his eyes. After the discussion, Li Xuan walked out of the conference hall slowly and deliberately followed behind the two factory directors.
"Director He, Director Zhang, hello, I'm Li Xuan! Just now I was very interested in Director He's mention just now, and I'm going to have a private exchange with the two of you!" Li Xuan stepped forward with a smile and said.
The two couldn't help but be a little surprised by Li Xuan's initiative to say hello, but immediately shook hands with him warmly. In the end, He Wei spoke first: "Mr. Li, you speak Mandarin so well!
In fact, He Wei and Zhang Jinhua don't know much about Li Xuan's specific identity, they only know that he is a Hong Kong and Macao compatriot.
"I'm sorry, I overheard the private communication between the two just now, it seems that Guixi Film Studio has some problems with funds?" Li Xuan said with a smile, "I don't know if Director He has considered Sino-Hong Kong co-production, I happen to have a film company under my name!"
Li Xuan really has some impressions of this movie "Blood Battle in Taierzhuang", his high school history teacher is a very funny and humorous teacher in class. His history class is never boring, and I remember that when talking about the victory of Taierzhuang, he happened to mention to the students the story behind the movie "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang".
This is the first film made by our party in China to positively praise the anti-Japanese war of the national army, and later a copy of this film was specially sent to Taiwan and handed over to Xiao Jiang to watch. After seeing this, Mr. Chiang finally agreed to allow Taiwan-Gulf veterans to visit relatives in the mainland. For the first time, there was a noticeable relaxation of cross-strait relations, which had been frozen for several decades, and only then did the "Wang-Koo talks" and the "9-2 consensus" take place.
In the past two years, Li Xuan has had close and direct exchanges with the top leaders of both sides of the strait. Perhaps they are still wary and hostile to each other for historical reasons, but they are absolutely the same on the one-China standpoint.
In Li Xuan's view, the 80s, when the older generation of politicians were still alive, was actually the best time to resolve the cross-strait issue. Even if cross-strait reunification cannot be fully realized, it would be good to reach consensus on some key issues earlier.
In fact, the "9-2 Consensus" of later generations came a little late, when Li had already begun to dig the grave of the Kuomintang. If it weren't for the fact that the older generation in the Kuomintang was too powerful at that time, he might have thrown off his cloak of hypocrisy and exposed his true face of Taiwan independence.
"China-Hong Kong co-production?" He Wei asked with some incredulity.
Now there are not no examples of Hong Kong filmmakers going north to co-produce with the mainland, but most of them are martial arts films and literary films. He Wei had never heard of a Hong Kong film company willing to co-produce a war film with the mainland. The genre of war films is already very rare in the Hong Kong film market. (To be continued......)