Shanghai Academy of Sciences is a state-level scientific research unit, mainly engaged in a variety of cutting-edge research work. Since its establishment after the liberation, the Academy of Sciences has made major breakthroughs for the country in many fields, not to mention anything else, just the two bombs and one satellite of that year, once dispatched a large number of technical personnel to take root in the northwest, and solved many technical problems, which can be said to be indispensable.

However, with the reform and opening up in the 80s, the exhibition of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences gradually fell into difficulties. In particular, in the early 90s, there was still a popular slogan in society that building an atomic bomb was better than selling tea and eggs, and as soon as the whole people looked at "money," various state departments seemed to have forgotten about such institutions as the Academy of Sciences overnight and were keen to attract investment. In the eyes of most politicians, they think that it is easier to spend a lump sum of money to import technology from abroad than to spend a lot of money and time on research. It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that the Academy of Sciences, which was at its peak at the time, has become a cold yamen that no one cares about.

Research institutes like the Shanghai Academy of Sciences are already sustained by funding from higher levels. Due to the above reasons, the amount of funding from the higher authorities to the Academy of Sciences is also declining year by year, and they are not enthusiastic about the projects proposed by various departments of the Academy of Sciences, such as reporting the need for a research fund of 5oo yuan, and in the end it is very good to be able to allocate 1o million yuan at a discount. This kind of support can only maintain the basic work of the researchers, so how can there be substantive research?

Conducting scientific research is very costly, and the expenditure of personnel, the upgrading of laboratory equipment, the collection of various materials, and the wear and tear of repeated failures...... Without a lot of financial support, there is no way to see the light of success. Although the Academy of Sciences has the most capable group of scientific research elites in the country, no one is a god in the face of no rice cooking.

From the late 80s to the mid-to-late 90s, the brain drain of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences was strict, and foreign investors under the banner of "talent exchange" desperately dug into the corners, coupled with some researchers whose family conditions were not very good, and who could not change their fate with their meager dead salaries, took the initiative to leave this place for a living. What's more, the most embarrassing thing about being a national research institution is that it can't recruit anyone every year, and even if some new people come in, most of them can't stand the cold and meager income, so they leave quickly.

According to Lin Ruofu, the Shanghai Academy of Sciences had 21oo scientific researchers at the end of the 70s, and the number of researchers exceeded 3ooo when collaborating units and other personnel were added. At present, there are only about 5oo people in the entire Academy of Sciences, and more than half of them are administrative staff, and there are less than 2oo scientific researchers who really adhere to it.

This is the current situation of the Shanghai Academy of Sciences. The entire Academy of Sciences still nominally retains its research mechanisms, but in reality it has become an empty shelf. For example, Lin Ruofu's biology laboratory is now only five people even counting him, and one of them is a part-time doctoral student at the university. The real equipment in the real yàn room is also old in the fifties and sixties, and it has long been eliminated, and there is no money to replace the equipment, let alone carry out new research, as the chief researcher, Lin Ruofu can only rely on these simple and outdated instruments to do some primary research or engage in theoretical research work over the years.

For this reason, Zhao Xinfang, a wife who has admired her husband's talent since she was young, felt heartache for Lin Ruofu's inability to show her ability in scientific research, coupled with the decay of the Academy of Sciences day by day, she couldn't help but persuade Lin Ruofu to leave the Academy of Sciences to find other places where she could display her talents.

At first, Zhao Xinfang contacted several foreign research laboratories for her husband, and the other party was also very interested in Lin Ruofu, and even an internationally renowned pharmaceutical company offered Lin Ruofu a good treatment, promising to fully support his research project as long as he passed, and invested a huge amount of money.

But these were all rejected by Lin Ruofu, in Lin Ruofu's mind, if he wanted to pursue prosperity in life, it would not be a problem at all, not to mention when he studied abroad before, even now it is not difficult for him. The problem is that he loves the Academy of Sciences, where he has worked for 25 years, and loves the satisfaction that his research work has brought to the country. Because of this, Lin Ruofu not only refused the invitation of various research institutions in various countries, but also refused to teach at the university, and refused to leave his post in the Academy of Sciences.

"Am I stupid, you say?" The cigarette was almost finished, and Lin Ruofu's words came to an end, and he let out a long sigh, with an indescribable gloom in his expression.

"Daddy...... I've adored you since I was a kid, you're the best! And the best! Holding her father's hand, Lin Yaxuan comforted.

"Silly boy......." Lin Ruofu smiled and patted his daughter's head: "It's okay, let you see the joke." However, I believe that a qiē will get better, such a country, a big country, it is absolutely impossible to engage in scientific research without its own technical strength, our persistence is for the future, I believe this qiē is worth it! ”

Zhou Liwen was in awe, he didn't expect that there would be people like Lin Ruofu who insisted on it in this materialistic society. Compared with Lin Ruofu, he seems to be so small, and even the wealth he has been pursuing is not worth mentioning in front of Lin Ruofu.

As if sensing what Zhou Liwen was thinking, Lin Ruofu said with a smile: "Xiaowen, the pursuit of your generation is different from ours, and now it is a material society, which is different from before. A fool like me may be respected, but in some ways I'm also a failure. ”

Zhou Liwen nodded, indicating that he understood what he meant, and at the same time was very grateful in his heart.

"Dad, you are right, the country has taken a detour now, and the doctrine of taking it is not omnipotent after all, and the country must rely on itself if it wants to have a strong scientific and technological force. I think it won't be long before the country understands this, and then it will increase the investment of the Academy of Sciences. ”

"yes, that's why I've been doing it." Lin Ruofu said with relief.

"By the way, Dad, why don't you absorb some private investment? Wouldn't it be possible to find a source of funding in this area to solve some of the problems? Zhou Liwen also had his own questions while understanding Lin Ruofu, and couldn't help but mention them.

"It's easier said than done." Lin Ruofu shook his head and said: "I understand what you mean, that is, to transform science and technology into results, and then get rewards from products, so as to maintain the progress and development of research." But these practices have no soil in China, whether our enterprises are private or state-owned, who is willing to invest so much money and spend so much time waiting for a result that may never be there? Of course, some foreign companies are willing to do this, but they all have their own research institutions and investment targets, and it is absolutely impossible to hand over the research work to other countries, especially China's national research institutions. ”

Of course, Zhou Liwen understands that domestic enterprises have a long-term vision, and the phrase that science and technology is the primary productive force has been shouted for 2o years, but who really understands? As for foreign multinational companies, they are very concerned about trade secrets, and because of the different systems, they can spend a lot of effort and generous treatment to poach Chinese researchers for their own use, but they will never use this method to fund Chinese research institutions. To put it simply, even if they are willing to do it, the country and the system behind them will not allow it to do so.

"Gotta try it, right?"

"Hehe, try, how do you know I haven't thought about it? Back then, Xiaoya's uncle-in-law and I were ...... Hey, forget it, don't mention it....... Lin Ruofu looked a little unhappy and waved his hand.

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