On 29 August 1998, the Higher Education Act was promulgated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The state has held special meetings on many occasions to promote and encourage enterprises, institutions, social organizations, other social organizations, citizens, and other social forces to set up institutions of higher learning in accordance with the law, and to participate in and support the reform and development of higher education.

In January 1999, the umbrella expressed its desire to invest in education, which was immediately responded to by the education department of Central South Province.

The umbrella company began to have some influence in Songzhou City and Central South Province.

In 98, Songzhou's GDP has just crossed the 10 billion level.

DeepNet's financing is estimated at $800 million, and the cash obtained from the two financings is $90 million.

The umbrella financing and transfer of shares received nearly $200 million.

The two companies have more than 2 billion yuan in cash!

Umbrella and Depth Company have been established for less than a year, and a huge amount of capital has been raised, which is unimaginable in traditional industries, and only the Internet industry, which is favored by a large number of venture capital, has this kind of miracle.

The umbrella holds a lot of cash, and is engaged in the high-tech industry, not to mention Songzhou, which has a GDP of only more than 10 billion, and is also a star enterprise registered in the province.

The umbrella wanted to invest in education, which was soon taken seriously by the Songzhou government and the provincial education department.

The Songzhou Municipal Government expressed its willingness to transfer a secondary school to an umbrella company, and then upgrade the secondary school to a higher vocational school through the province.

However, the umbrella company does not want to run a formal higher vocational school with state-recognized academic qualifications, but wants to run a training school for non-academic education - similar to the form of a driving school.

The education department of Central South Province and the Songzhou Municipal Government both expressed their incomprehension: we are willing to recognize your qualifications for running a school, and the state recognizes academic qualifications, but you don't want it?

The leaders in charge of culture and education in Central South Province personally coordinated with the umbrella company, and the main leaders of the Provincial Department of Education came to Songzhou to negotiate in person, hoping that the umbrella company could cherish this opportunity and get the formal qualification to run a school.

This is because the investment in higher education in Central and South Province in 98 is too embarrassing, and the temptation of 100 million yuan is too great, which can greatly improve the performance of the education system.

Central South Province is not a coastal province and its economy is relatively backward. In 98, the GDP of Central and South Province was only 100 million, and the fiscal revenue of the province was only 9.716 billion. In 98, the total income of colleges and universities in Central South Province was less than 600 million yuan, of which the financial allocation was less than 100 million yuan.

At the beginning of 99, the umbrella decided to donate 10 million yuan and invest another 100 million yuan to build a "university", which has an impact on the education system of Central and Southern Province.

Of course, this is at the beginning of 99, and in a few years, 100 million yuan will not have such a big influence at all.

In the following decade or so, China's economic development has exceeded the imagination of too many people, and it can be said that few people in it can understand it.

Until 2005, many people in China still have no confidence in whether China's economic aggregate can surpass Japan, Chen Fan remembers that in 05, a netizen named "Sabre" posted a post on Tianya, saying that China's GDP can surpass Japan within 30 years, and was sprayed by many netizens, saying that he was daydreaming.

In fact, China's economic aggregate surpassed Japan in 09, and then the gap widened, and the Japanese economy seemed to have no hope of turning around.

The scale of 100 million yuan in '99 seems so large that the allocation of university funding in a single province in Central South Province is dwarfed.

Only companies that can easily make a lot of dollars in the Internet industry will not treat money as money.

The people in the education department of Central and South Province do not analyze why the umbrella company is a failure, they only hope that the failure of the umbrella company will also be lost in the formal education undertaking -- 100 million yuan will be used to set up training schools will greatly reduce their political performance.

However, the directors of the education department traveled thousands of miles from the provincial capital to Songzhou and were shocked when they saw the school construction plan under the umbrella.

The Umbrella Computer School's plan was completely unexpected: enrollment was open to 18-30 year olds and did not require any academic qualifications.

The school is completely free of charge, free of tuition and fees, free of charge for food and lodging, and also offers scholarships.

Are you running a school or a shelter? That's not the case with the training course, is it?

However, there is an entrance exam for umbrella computer schools, and of course, the content of the exams is different from that of ordinary schools.

There are not many subjects in the exam, but only three subjects are examined: mathematics, logical thinking, and computer programming techniques.

Among them, only the math test is similar to other schools, which is to test the basic ability of mathematics, which is easy to understand.

Logical thinking ability is basically a test of IQ and logical deduction ability, and this kind of test is not expected at present.

The computer programming exam is even more incredible.

The computer test is not a test of students' mastery of computers, but a 20-day "pool elimination" project!

Pool elimination is to throw you into the pool and make you flutter on your own, regardless of whether you can swim or not.

You learned to swim and you passed the exam; If you can't learn, you'll be eliminated.

This exam is for each person to be equipped with a Unix system computer and use EMACS to program the C language.

A certain number of programming questions are given every day, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 11 p.m., and points are given the next day.

Some of them who knew how to program quickly finished answering the questions and went back, and many of the rest could only watch the teaching videos of the teachers.

Each classroom will have a teaching assistant, and you can also ask more powerful students, but if the code is too repetitive, you will be judged to fail.

And after the students are admitted, the pool project is also a major teaching project, and the teaching is based on the task point system - if the education officials had played online games at this time, they would have found that the school's points-based teaching was very much like online games.

The high scholarship raised by the umbrella is also linked to the point system, and students not only do not have to pay to study in this school, but also earn money if they study well.

No one has ever heard of this kind of pool elimination project education system, and it is not in line with the national conditions of China's higher education.

It is no wonder that the umbrella company will give up the formal qualification of running a school and give up the state-recognized academic qualifications.

If the 100 million yuan under the umbrella is only a one-time investment, the Central South Education Department will pinch its nose and give up -- this kind of plan is too deviant.

However, when they came to Songzhou, they learned that the 100 million yuan investment of the umbrella this time was only a plan for this year, and that the plan to invest no less than this amount in schools every year in the future -- the schools did not charge fees, and it was impossible to persist without continuing to invest.

In the period when the financial allocation of colleges and universities in the whole province is less than 100 million, can the performance of 100 million yuan of education funding every year be let go?

It doesn't matter if it's deviant, it's just a vocational and technical college anyway, isn't it now that the whole country is groping for educational reform? Deviance is also a reform!