"How are you going to get me the money? Yang Rui smiled and said, "The Human Genome Project, even if it is one percent participation, will cost hundreds of millions of yuan." ”

Standing in today's season, hundreds of millions of yuan is actually less to say.

As far as planning is concerned, one percent of the planned expenditure of 3 billion US dollars will cost 30 million US dollars, which is already more than 100 million yuan.

Moreover, this 3 billion yuan is actually an experimental expenditure, not a project expenditure.

Among them, the missing expenses include the expenses of various technical licenses, the expenses of existing instruments and equipment, and the largest personnel expenses.

This is the little trick played by the Americans, or rather, Darbeko and others.

The three major scientific projects in history, the Manhattan Project, needless to say, was a secret project during World War II, which cost tens of thousands of people to build an atomic bomb in the desert, and its hardship is really no worse than that of the Chinese to build an atomic bomb, although the money spent at that time was more, but for the sake of war, there is no way, everyone can only pinch their noses and admit it, all for victory.

The Apollo moon landing program was a project during the Cold War. The so-called Cold War is just a war with less gunpowder, and in the end, the United States was able to win the Cold War thanks to this project - the entire semiconductor industry can be said to be born from the Apollo moon landing program, which also widened the gap between the national strength of the United States and the Soviet Union. Even back then, the Apollo moon landing program was also recognized by the American people, and although the money spent was gone, it was still very confident.

The birth of the Human Genome Project did not go so smoothly.

In fact, Americans are more supportive of the plan to conquer cancer that began in the late 70s. In order to overcome cancer, Americans are really willing to spend as much as they want, and it feels like everyone has picked up a life.

Even in terms of money, spending money on scientific research is more cost-effective than spending money on ultra-expensive medical insurance bills.

However, cancer is very difficult to overcome, and the cancer treatment plan that took ten years to spend $1 billion finally failed - by the way, if there is any old Chinese medicine doctor in China who can really overcome cancer, he must be sick in the brain, selfish, and would rather work from 9 to 5 to prescribe medicine than lie down to make money, not only do not want profit, but also do not want to be famous, and he is not willing to make a rewarding contribution to society.

Any country's social security agency, or pharmaceutical company, is willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy a formula to overcome cancer, even if it is only a type for one type of person, see Gleevec. And his contribution will also change human history, on a par with Yuan Druid, and even sung by children in the rebellious period: think that if Steve Jobs was still alive, the iPhone would at least take up hundreds of billions of minutes more human time.

Compared with the cancer project, the Human Genome Project is much more basic and indirect, and it costs much more.

It's hard to get Americans to support a project that doesn't have immediate results, and it's even harder to get a lot of money out of the equation.

Therefore, no one, including Watson, Dalbeko and others, dared to announce the real budget of the Human Genome Project, and even so, they gave up only fooling the richest American dad in the universe and looked at the whole world.

What are the benefits of the largest international project ever undertaken by mankind?

The main thing is money.

First of all, it is an equal share of expenses, any country to participate, it has to pay money, even for a country, to take out hundreds of millions of dollars is a bit painful, this is a pure expense, it is difficult to see the benefits in the future.

Another important aspect is that internationalization saves initial investment and saves on overhead.

For example, the salaries of the personnel are paid by the participating laboratories themselves.

Of course, after the Human Genome Project is launched, some subsidies will be given, but that is a drop in the bucket.

In the whole plan, any team is pulled out, and it is the scale of hundreds or thousands of people. How much is the daily cost of a 1,000-person scientific research ape? Although the salary of a scientific research ape is low, if you include various social security and office expenses, an average of 50,000 US dollars per person per year is indispensable. In other words, $50 million is not enough to cover a team's expenses for a year, the entire plan took 10 years, and the cost of a team alone will be more than 500 million, and $3 billion is only enough for the salary expenses of 6 teams!

However, the money was hidden from the beginning.

The instruments and equipment used by these teams have also been allocated by various countries before, and they cannot be included in the expenditure of the Human Genome Project.

This is the main reason why the Human Genome Project can cover the entire project with $3 billion. Of course, from a technical point of view, the technological progress that exceeds the expectations has led to more direct savings.

But in any case, in order to participate in such a project, it is necessary to prepare a lot of money.

Top at least world-class laboratories, top scholars and world-class researchers, abundant funding, all indispensable.

Yang Rui said that the funds of hundreds of millions of yuan barely reached the threshold.

This is also the reason why he dares to say that he does not use money from the treasury.

In the late 80s and early 90s, it was the most difficult time for China's economy, and the central government really couldn't come up with money, let alone hundreds of millions of yuan, 10 million yuan was enough.

Not to mention anything else, even various military institutes are now unable to get funding, and how can such a basic project as the Human Genome Project get a large amount of central funding.

Yang Rui and Professor Cai are also teachers and friends, and they don't want him to be embarrassed, so they smile and say: "The words of the reporters are not rough, our country is still very difficult. It's important for me to do the Human Genome Project, it's important for a lot of people, but it's not important for everyone, there's no reason to use money from the treasury. I want to find some from state-owned enterprises, some from local governments, and then from multinational corporations, and if that is not enough, I can talk to Darbeko and them to see if there are any foundations in the world that can contribute some money. ”

Yang Rui has other plans, but as far as finding money is concerned, that's really all there is to it.

State-owned enterprises spend money loosely. In particular, many of the state enterprises that must hand over most of their profits are adhering to the idea of paying in vain without spending money, and they are desperately throwing money when they are prosperous. Being able to collect some of the money from state-owned enterprises will definitely not affect the national economy and people's livelihood, and at most it will affect a few luxury suppliers, so that they can't save money quickly to immigrate overseas.

Local governments are just as virtuous. Later generations will see that a certain ministry and commission will spend money at the end of the year, in order not to reduce the budget next year. That's because the central government has more money after the tax reform. Before the tax reform, it was the local governments that spent money by surprise, especially the coastal provinces with the most wealth, and many of them were in power without learning how to spend money, and the wasted funds were wasted everywhere.

Not to mention multinationals and foundations, which make money in China and contribute to China's scientific research, which is very legitimate.

Professor Cai frowned and said, "I know that you asked for money from state-owned enterprises and local governments, do you want money?"

Yang Rui hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

"Have you ever participated in a wine party with a glass of wine for 10,000 yuan?" Professor Cai calmed down, and the topic he asked was quite sharp.

Yang Rui smiled bitterly: "I rarely participate in the drinking party. ”

"yes, because you don't have to ask them for money. Professor Cai sighed and said, "With your current prestige, it is very easy to apply for funding directly from the ministry, but the money from the local government is not so easy to get." ”

Yang Rui was stunned for a long time, and had to admit that Professor Cai's words made sense.

The aura of the Nobel Prize is also not invincible. At the level of the central government, his aura is very powerful, but if you don't want money from the treasury and ask a local government for money, whether you can use the halo of the Nobel Prize is really not certain.

"Impulsive, huh?" Professor Cai chuckled.

Yang Rui thought for a while and said, "Although it was a decision made on the spot, this decision was actually considered by me a long time ago. The country is not yet rich, and it has to develop an economy, and it still has to feed these many people and maintain the domestic and international situation...... It is not necessary to take money from the treasury to do the human genome project. ”

Although mosquito legs are also meat, you can't cut the legs of pet mosquitoes, right?

What Yang Rui didn't say was that if he took a large amount of money from the treasury to fund it, the funding for other biological projects in China would definitely be reduced.

Otherwise, scholars in other disciplines, such as physical chemistry, will have to make trouble.

And Professor Cai also knew this, and said slowly: "It's better to leave the matter of collecting money from the local government to us." ”

"Hey, is it okay?" Yang Rui couldn't help but say, "This is hard work." ”

"Everyone is familiar with something, and what is more troublesome for you is easier for some people. Professor Cai smiled and said in a solemn tone, "Everyone is counting on you to introduce the Human Genome Project." ”

For scholars, it is naturally best to participate in international projects.

Yang Rui said without hesitation: "It's no problem to introduce the Human Genome Project, but who can have what proportion cannot be determined by relationships." ”

Professor Cai understood: "It depends on how much funding you can find." ”

"Well, that's fair. Yang Rui laughed with Professor Cai as he spoke.

Seeing Professor Cai away, Yang Rui packed up again, called a car, and went to Sinovel Laboratory.

As its own independent private laboratory, Sinovel has a strong capital in the entire Southeast Asian region, and all kinds of instruments and equipment personnel are steadily more than the biological laboratories of most international universities.

However, what private labs fear most is bottomless projects.

Essentially, a private lab is the same as a company. In a world where no cash flow is death, bottomless projects are something that everyone has to hide.

Yang Rui happened to know where the entrance to the cave was.

"Let's start with a pre-research project. Yang Rui clapped his hands and gathered everyone in the laboratory, and without saying a word of mobilization, he said: "The current way of doing gene sequencing is too old-fashioned, I want a new model." ”

"Gene sequencing? Is it appropriate for us to do this?" Tu Xian and the others are willing to participate in the human genome project, but this thing is still very controversial for private participation.

"Suitable. Yang Rui said without a pause: "I have already announced that I don't need to use the treasury money, in this case, there is no reason for other laboratories to pre-study gene sequencing methods before the special funds are received, I use my own money to do it, which is very legitimate." ”

"Okay. Tu Xian and the others nodded.

Huang Mao took out the record book and said, "Then start a new project, what is the name of the project?"

"Shotguns. What Yang Rui was thinking about was the famous "shotgun technique".

If the Human Genome Project is analogous to the Apollo moon landing, shotgun is a manned spacecraft!

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