Bao Feiyang answered Li Weizhong's questions one by one, the more questions Li Weizhong raised, the more it can reflect the attitude of Li Weizhong and Xingang University of Science and Technology on the matter of cooperation in running schools, some questions, Bao Feiyang can give a definite answer, and Li Weizhong can also be satisfied, but some questions, Bao Feiyang can only say that he tries his best, but he does not dare to guarantee, because it is beyond his scope of authority.

And there are many such problems.

Li Weizhong was generally satisfied with the talks, but what he was most satisfied with was Bao Feiyang's frank and positive attitude, and he still had a lot of misgivings about the cooperation in running the school.

If Xingang University of Science and Technology just runs an MBA business school, or a computer and information school, like other cooperative education programs, or directly adopts high tuition fees, plus a 2+2 school-running model, and uses the mainland community as a preparatory department for studying abroad, then things are also very simple. But the purpose of Bao Feiyang and Li Weizhong is not here, Li Weizhong has been engaged in higher education for many years, and returning to Xingang to found Xingang University of Science and Technology is also Li Weizhong's practice of his dream of running a school for many years. And if you can go back to the mainland to run a school, you can get what you have been hoping for many years.

Both Li Weizhong and Bao Feiyang want to run a real university in the mainland, not a simple business school. So far, although there are many Sino-foreign cooperative education projects, there are no joint universities. It wasn't until five years later that the University of Nottingham Ningcheng became the first truly joint university in the mainland. However, the high tuition fees of the University of Nottingham also discourage ordinary students, and then Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Pujiang New York University, Guangdong East Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and even Xingang Chinese University Shencheng Campus, tuition fees are almost as high as ten times that of ordinary schools, at least more than seven times, and the annual tuition fee alone is as high as about 100,000 yuan, which is not at all affordable for ordinary students' families.

Of course, the purpose of these schools is elite education, some of their students will study abroad, some will continue their studies in schools, pursue a market-oriented school-running philosophy, and the professional curriculum is more emphasis on application. To a certain extent, this type of school enriches the choice of domestic higher education, and is a good alternative for those students who want to study abroad, but feel that studying abroad is more expensive. However, such schools play a very small role in popularizing higher education, expanding the audience of higher education, and even improving and promoting the level of higher education and improving the academic atmosphere.

What Bao Feiyang and Li Weizhong are pursuing is a popular higher education school, a university that can influence regional and even national higher education, attract the best students, and have a certain academic influence.

To put it simply, Li Weizhong wants to set up another HKUST, rather than making money through a branch campus, which requires huge investment, and HKUST needs more autonomy in running the school, which determines that it is difficult for them to get enough funds from the government like public universities in China, so they have to face many difficulties.

Although Li Weizhong did not make a decision on behalf of HKUST, he and Bao Feiyang still reached a consensus that no matter how many difficulties there are and how difficult they are, both parties can work together to solve this difficulty and strive for the success of the project.

Originally, Li Weizhong also wanted to take Bao Feiyang to see the campus of HKUST and let Bao Feiyang personally experience the atmosphere of HKUST, but Bao Feiyang refused. Bao Feiyang did not think that he could experience the true essence of HKUST accompanied by the vice president of HKUST, and he chose to hang out on campus with Meng Shuang, although it was not comprehensive, but he could really experience something.

In fact, Fangxia Ceramics and Fangxia Paper have cooperated with HKUST, and even some technical projects of Fangxia Technology Center are still cooperating with HKUST. As the director of Fangxia Technology Center, Meng Shuang has been to HKUST many times and is familiar with HKUST.

After leaving HKUST, Bao Feiyang and Meng Shuang visited Xingang University, Xingang Chinese University, Xingang University of Technology and other universities in Xingang. In contrast, the attitude of Xingang University of Science and Technology is the most positive, and Li Weizhong's philosophy of running a school is also the most consistent with Bao Feiyang's ideas. At present, Xingang University, which is the strongest among the universities in Xingang, has a relatively negative attitude, and if it were not for the operation of Fangxia Group, the other party might not be interested at all.

The attitude of Xingang Chinese University is more positive than that of Xingang University, but their ideas are roughly similar to the model of Ningcheng Nottingham University, which seems to be a cooperative school, but in fact it is to build an international student branch, which is not what Bao Feiyang wants.

Compared with the previous universities, Xingang Polytechnic University is slightly inferior in strength and academic prestige, but it is also a relatively famous university in Xingang and even Asia. Their attitude is similar to that of Xingang Chinese University, making it thankless for them to go to the mainland to set up an ordinary university, and they have more doubts.

In contrast, it is the Xingang University of Science and Technology that has the most positive attitude and a more consistent educational philosophy.

Of course, several other universities are not unable to cooperate, although elite education is not the goal of Bao Feiyang, but elite education is also needed, but the government, Including Bao Feiyang will not spend too much resources and energy, Bao Feiyang's plan is to give priority to cooperating with Xingang University of Science and Technology to set up an ordinary university, if Xingang University of Science and Technology has the intention, the two sides can also set up an independent college, this independent college is equivalent to an international student college, the implementation of elite education, so that HKUST does not have to hope to make money through the joint ordinary university, but can make money through this independent college, if HKUST does not have this idea, then it can cooperate with several other schools to build such an elite university。

After visiting several universities, Bao Feiyang originally planned to return to Pujiang by plane, but he did not expect to receive a call from the Xingang Office, Liang Jianwu, deputy director of the Xingang Office, and Liang Jianwu wanted to meet with him.

Liang Jianwu is a senior official at the deputy ministerial level, although he said that he has no jurisdictional relationship with Bao Feiyang, but Liang Jianwu summoned him, and Bao Feiyang could not directly ignore it, he could only change the booked ticket and then rush to the Xingang Office.

"Originally, you and Mr. Meng got married, and I should have been there, but the old man was too strict with his family and didn't let us go, and we could only bless you from afar!"

After meeting, Liang Jianwu smiled and handed a pair of Longines watches to Bao Feiyang: "This is a gift from an international friend, a diplomatic gift, it is registered with the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the public model, not those styles with a frightening price, you can accept it with confidence, even if it is a wedding gift I gave you!"

"Then thank you Director Liang!" Bao Feiyang glanced at Meng Shuang, and without pretentiousness, he directly put away the pair of Longines watches. A pair of Longines watches, which can be given as diplomatic gifts, can never be less than five figures. However, since Liang Jianwu said so, there should be nothing to do with this pair of watches.

However, Meng Shuang, who received Bao Feiyang's signal, still took out a Montblanc gold pen from his bag and gave it to Liang Jianwu as a return gift.

Liang Jianwu didn't refuse, and accepted it directly.

"I heard that you have visited several universities in Xingang in the past two days, and you hope to cooperate with the universities in Xingang to run schools in the mainland?" Liang Jianwu is an old subordinate of Old Man Zhao and a comrade-in-arms of Zhao Genzheng. Liang Jianwu had a little relationship with Bao Feiyang and Meng Shuang, and then spoke.

Bao Feiyang nodded: "Yes, this year Pingjing proposed to revitalize higher education in the mainland, and the university began to expand its enrollment. However, the scale of enrollment can increase rapidly, the existing university faculty, hardware facilities are there, the carrying capacity is limited, blindly expanding enrollment, is likely to cause a decline in teaching quality, that is contrary to the original intention of the policy. ”

Bao Feiyang said: "At present, some colleges and universities are merging to enrich their school resources to cope with the rapidly expanding enrollment scale, but this merger is mixed, and the resources that can be merged are also limited. In the future, major universities will definitely build new campuses on a large scale, but the campus buildings can be built, but the faculty, teaching and research capabilities are not so easy to improve, and the rapid expansion of the teaching scale will only reduce the original teaching quality. In addition, the industrial wind of colleges and universities is blowing strongly, and the impact on academic research is still relatively large. ”

"At present, China is in a critical window of rapid development and catching up with developed countries, the huge domestic market and demographic dividend, can make us in a dominant position in the competition of labor-intensive industries, but with the passage of the high population growth period, in another twenty years, our demographic dividend will disappear, and the aging of the population will come before we enter a rich society, so for our country, the time to enjoy the demographic dividend and the competitive advantage of labor-intensive industries is only 20 years. Twenty years later, when the demographic dividend disappears and the competitive advantage of labor-intensive industries no longer exists, we can only sustain our economic growth by upgrading our industries, just like Japan now, to occupy a place in high-end manufacturing and high-tech industries. ”

Bao Feiyang said: "In order to occupy a place in high-end manufacturing and high-tech industries, in addition to the state's support for relevant enterprises, the guidance of industrial policies, and the efforts of enterprises, whether universities can continue to cultivate outstanding talents and whether they can continue to emerge research results in related fields is also a very critical part." ”

"We now like to talk about the investment of enterprises in R&D and the R&D results of enterprises, which is not wrong, and most of the research results of commercialization must come from enterprises. However, institutions of higher learning have always been the bases for the cultivation of high-tech talents, and they are also the places with the highest concentration of high-tech and highly educated talents......