SUSTech's first enrollment plan this year is only going to enroll 800 undergraduate freshmen. Shenzhen University plans to recruit 1,200 undergraduate freshmen this year, in addition to more than 100 graduate students.

Shenzhen University not only has more students than SUSTech, but also has a larger community area than SUSTech. However, the total amount of money invested by Shenzhen University in the construction of the campus is only 30 million yuan. In comparison, the SUSTech campus, which cost $35 million, is undoubtedly much more luxurious.

The start-up Southern University of Science and Technology is definitely one of the most spacious universities in China. Even after spending $35 million, SUSTech still has a foreign exchange balance of up to $65 million. In the next few years, SUSTech will also receive an annual donation of $5 million from the Eastern Group and a donation of $25 million from the East China Sea Fund.

You must know that in the whole of last year, the state's total investment in higher education was less than 7.5 billion yuan, and this money needs to be shared by hundreds of colleges and universities across the country. Even the annual financial allocation of Tsinghua University and Peking University is only more than 100 million yuan.

And Li Xuan and the Oriental Group alone will provide up to $30 million a year to SUSTech in the next few years. At the official exchange rate, it is equivalent to about 90 million yuan. But the purchasing power of the dollar is actually much greater than that of the renminbi, and the real exchange rate on the black market in the deep-sea zone is usually double the official exchange rate.

What's more, Tsinghua University has an annual enrollment of more than 4,000 students, which is almost 5 times that of SUSTech, so in fact, SUSTech is far more spacious than Tsinghua University. However, from the very beginning of its establishment, SUSTech has aspired to become a world-class research university. So. SUSTech does not make much sense to use domestic universities in the 80s as a reference. It needs to be aligned with world-class universities such as Harvard, Cambridge, and Stanford.

For example, Stanford University has an annual operating income of more than one billion US dollars, and Li Xuan donates $30 million to SUSTech every year. It is less than one-thirtieth of Stanford's funding for running a school, so SUSTech still has a long way to go.

"This library is the most expensive building in the entire school. It was originally planned to be built by Ho Hung-sun's donation of 40 million Hong Kong dollars, but the actual cost of the construction was 15% more than the original budget. Originally, we were going to subsidize it with our own funds.

But after Sir Ho heard about this situation, he added an additional donation of 10 million Hong Kong dollars without saying a word. He just asked us to be as perfect as possible, so that students can have a library where they can read books comfortably!" said Zhao Weiming, pointing to the six-storey building in front of him, full of postmodern style.

Li Xuanyu, the famous gambling king in Asia, is not very familiar, but he has been friends with Huo Lao for many years. When Ho Hung-sun went west to Macau to gamble, Fok Yingdong was also one of the partners. The most important thing is that as the dust settles on the issue of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the issue of Macao's return to the motherland has also begun to come to the table.

The reason why He gambled generously to SUSTech was in addition to selling Huo Lao's affection. More importantly, in order to show goodwill to the central government! For him, donating an extra 10 million yuan is just a few days of running water in the Macau gambling arena.

A first-class university must have a first-class library, which is the heart of the university. This is the school-running philosophy that Zhao Weiming has been adhering to since he became the president of SUSTech. The location of the SUSTech Library is deliberately located in the middle of the school's teaching area and living area, in order to better facilitate all teachers and students to go to the library.

"Starting next month, the Chinese and foreign language books we ordered will be delivered one after another! If you don't know that the material is expensive, the cost of buying books is more than building a building! We have already invested 10 million US dollars. At the beginning of the semester, it is estimated that there will be 300,000 books, barely 2% of Harvard's number.

In the next few years, we will also spend $5 million a year on book purchases and subscriptions to various periodicals, and strive to make the library's collection exceed 1 million books as soon as possible!" Zhao Weiming pointed to the empty library rooms and said with a wry smile.

"SUSTech is not enough. At least President Zhang next door is very envious of you, and SUSTech's annual book purchase fee exceeds the annual budget of Shenzhen University! Last time I went to visit President Ma Lin. He said you were about to rob the CUHK library back to the mainland!" Li Xuan quipped with a smile.

Specialized foreign language academic books and journals are expensive, but for a university determined to make a difference. It is an essential investment. With the exception of Tsinghua University, Peking University and a few other prestigious universities, Chinese universities generally do not have enough funds to purchase books. Not to mention applying for precious foreign currency to buy expensive books and periodicals in foreign languages.

"I was forced to be the headmaster by you, and you are embarrassed to say cool things on the side!" Zhao Weiming glanced at Li Xuan, who was smiling happily, and said helplessly.

"A few days ago, I went to CUHK to visit President Ma Lin, and he said that you are about to loot the CUHK library and transport it to SUSTech!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

"SUSTech is not easy to start-up, so it naturally needs a lot of support from the Hong Kong academic community. This time, CUHK donated 50,000 books, and HKU also donated 30,000 books. I went around the U.S. before, and MIT donated 10,000 copies, and Stanford donated 20,000 copies. The library of Stanford University also gave away a precious set of "Electronic Abstracts!"

MIT is the abbreviation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is the alma mater of Professor Zhao Weiming, and his master's and doctoral degrees were studied at MIT. Stanford University is the most important partner university of the Oriental Institute in the United States. During his tenure as vice president of the Institute, Zhao Weiming went to Stanford University for academic exchanges many times, and he also became acquainted with the president of Stanford University.

The "Electronic Abstract" presented by the Stanford University Library this time is not an ordinary book, but a collated summary of all academic papers in the field of electronics over the years. This not only consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but more importantly, it needs to have enough accumulation. For example, universities in China can't even squeeze out the funds to subscribe to academic journals, let alone systematically organize and abstract them.

"Before, Aikang Company was going to donate a full set of network systems to SUSTech, did they send someone to install it?" Li Xuan asked again.

Li Xuan, in the name of the Oriental Group, pledged $50 million in cash to SUSTech. However, this does not include subsidiaries such as Aikang Computer Company and Computer Park Company, which have been listed.

As a public enterprise, a listed company cannot make external donations as it pleases. Although Li Xuan has a lot of control over these listed subsidiaries, his will does not represent the will of other minority shareholders.

Therefore, like the computer park company, its business does not involve Chinese mainland at all, so naturally there is no reason to send money to China. The computer park company just looked at the face of the major shareholder Li Xuan, and politely donated $100,000 in cash and $200,000 worth of computers to SUSTech.

In contrast, Aikang has to look at a lot of generosity, and it donated a campus network system to SUSTech at a cost of more than $1 million. And there is a reason why the management of Aikang has given such a big penance.

First of all, the entire product production system and more than half of the R&D system of Aikang are located in Hong Kong. In the past five to six years, the electronics manufacturing industry has replaced the textile, garment and toy industries and quickly become the new core of Hong Kong's industry.

With a total of more than 1.5 million PCs assembled and produced last year, Hong Kong has become one of the world's largest computer manufacturing hubs. More than 90% of these computers are attached to the brand of Aikang and sent to the market shelves of countries around the world.

iKang has a major interest in Hong Kong, and this crown jewel of the British Empire has been confirmed to return to China in a dozen years. Therefore, in the long run, Aikang also needs to release some goodwill to the Chinese government.

In fact, SUSTech purchased computers and servers with a total value of more than $1.5 million from Aikang Company in one go. Therefore, Aikang Company is actually just returning the profits earned from the large orders of SUSTech, and the company itself does not have to come up with real money!

"It has already begun, and all the data cables required for networking have already been laid in advance during the previous civil construction. The technical team sent by Aikang Company has been installing LAN building by building since last month!" Zhao Weiming nodded and said.

SUSTech will not only build the first campus LAN in China, but is also actively applying to connect to the global Internet in the 80s, ARPANET. As early as 1981, Li Xuan invested millions of dollars to build an ARPANET node in Hong Kong and connect to the global ARPANET system via satellite.

At present, institutions including the Oriental Institute, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic, and the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong are all able to communicate with the world through this node. SUSTech hopes to connect itself with the world by connecting it with the world.

"The computer room on the third floor of the library is where the host of the entire campus LAN system is located, and Professor Kong is communicating with the engineers of the iKang technical team in the past few days, preparing to install the library computer retrieval system he developed before into the campus network!" Zhao Weiming continued.

With the advent of the computer age, some of the top universities in the United States have begun to digitize their campuses. For example, the library of Harvard University is entering more than 15 million volumes into the computer system, which is a very huge project.

On the contrary, the start-up SUSTech is like a blank sheet of paper, which can be painted by painters at will. In the case of sufficient funds, Zhao Weiming chose to do it in one step, not only will the library build a computer retrieval system to replace the backward manual search, but even each teacher will be assigned a computer, entering the era of computerized office......!