There was a brief silence in the air.

Qian Cai laughed.

"President Zhou, in fact, I am not very optimistic about this project."

Zhou Luwei raised his eyebrows, looked at Qian Cai seriously, and then raised his hand to the sofa.

"Oh? Sit down and say. ”

Qian Cai nodded, walked to the sofa and sat down, sighed, and continued.

"But in today's situation, we have to do it."

Zhou Luwei seemed to have a dry throat from the lecture, picked up the teacup and rinsed some water, shook it, added some coolness, and swallowed two sips of tea.

"The chip starts, there are thousands of difficulties, in this realistic situation of industrial devastation, it is impossible to make any changes with your company, I have been engaged in physics for many years, I have understood many aspects, don't say three or five years, thirty or fifty years still depends on luck, as far as your project is concerned, I think it is delaying the scientific research life of my students, the money is total, the money is wasted is not terrible, once the talent is wasted, it cannot be recovered."

As he spoke, he gave the money again and made a glass of warm water.

Qian Cai took it, lowered his head and grabbed the plastic water cup in his hand, and shook his head with a smile.

"President Zhou, you have a wide range of knowledge, serving as the dean of the graduate school and the dean of the physics school, I believe that you must also have a lot of knowledge about chips, so I came to you today in the hope that you can understand."

"It's because I know more that I think some people are fooling."

Zhou Luwei sighed and said in a lengthened tone.

"Chen Jin's matter... You know that, right? What is the effect of rushing? We have fewer talents going abroad, so anxious, a person who is not two or three is not five, can lead such a big project, we should cultivate more high-end talents in the international field, in the future in many real cutting-edge projects, the proportion of Chinese is high, the weight of discourse, in order to really promote the progress of the entire country in the field of science and technology! ”

Qian couldn't help but smile.

"President Zhou, I am Jiaotong University, and Chen Jin was reported by someone I arranged, otherwise this project would not be my turn."

This matter is an open secret in the ministry, but it shouldn't be clear what Zhou Luwei looks like, so he said it clearly.

Today, he came through the introduction of Guo Guangchao, an old alumnus of Fudan, and he can't help it, Lao Guo has a wide range of connections in Fudan and has donated a lot of money to Fudan.

Zhou Luwei was really a little surprised, and a little sudden, sat down and patted his thigh.

"Oh... Then you should be even clearer that we are in the wrong direction now, and we can't do anything good in a hurry. ”

Qian Cai was also a little speechless when he heard it.

When it comes to chip independence, the leaders at all levels he meets are either overly anxious or completely pessimistic.

If you think about it carefully, you are probably completely pessimistic, and you have been anxious, but you are too sensible, and the pressure has not reached them, and you find that this thing can't be done at all, and they are all trying to find a corner.

"President Zhou, your idea probably originated in India, where they account for 20%-25% of scientific and technological talents in the United States, and rank second in science and technology, and their Bangalore, known as India's Silicon Valley, is indeed well deserved, and Indian scientists in the United States have indeed mastered most of American technology and promoted American technology.

But they are completely different from ours.

India's bad relations with its neighboring countries, and their non-alignment policy, have led the United States to have the greatest tolerance for them. If you don't get a green card, how can you get access to the core of R&D? ”

People who have been engaged in science in these years have been too self-conscious about some ideas, and Qian can't help but refute them.

After hearing this, Zhou Luwei frowned and insisted.

"The world pattern is changing at any time! The patriotic education in our country is also very profound! My students who go out, I often warn them that they dare not forget the country, and some of those who go out will come back sooner or later! We should spare no effort to create better learning conditions and research environment for them! ”

"How many are back? We're just waiting? Qian Cai smiled inexplicably: "Principal Zhou, let me tell you a reason, can you listen to it?" ”

Zhou Luwei took a sip of water, raised his hand and said, "You say." ”

"Do you know why our country's economy is growing so fast?"

Qian only paused for a while, and seeing that Zhou Luwei didn't mean to speak, he continued to smile: "I won't talk about policy directions, let's just talk about business, in the 97 "World Development Report" and 98 "World Population Status", there is a word: demographic dividend. ”

The so-called demographic dividend refers to the fact that a country's working-age population accounts for a large proportion of the total population, and the dependency rate is relatively low, which creates favorable demographic conditions for economic development, and the economy of the whole country presents a situation of high savings, high investment and high growth. ”

To put it simply, some industries, our country can do, other countries can't, once too much investment in research and development, even if a new product is developed, the consumer base is too low, can not give the business enough returns, the final result is to lose money.

Therefore, once the country is blocked by trade, the most difficult to develop is the country with a low population.

Compared with the development of science and technology, it also needs a large base, and it is inseparable from a large number of experiments to engage in science, which is to play probability, most of the time, there must be a large-scale experimental failure stage in order to cast a success, and on the basis of a success, another success will be cast, and a scientific system will be gradually formed.

Now our country's economic growth is very fast, especially in the two years after joining the WTO, it has been among the top three, and even will soon be the first, in this case, the tension given to European and American countries will become more and more intense, do you think they will give us another chance to overtake in science and technology?

The hegemony of the dollar depends on nothing more than the economy, science and technology, the military, and the military is laid on science and technology, and when our economy develops, it is impossible for them to watch us develop science and technology.

Borrowing? More unlikely.

I can assert that once our chip design technology reaches the level that can threaten the cutting-edge technology of Europe and the United States, they will immediately restrict our development from the chip manufacturing aspect.

If you want to surpass, you can only improve yourself.

Relying on a large base population to select scientific talents and conduct a large number of experiments, I said that I am not optimistic about this project, for the same reason as you, I think it is too difficult to achieve the goal, but in the process, if we find something, even something that other countries do not have, will it be more valuable than the small possibility that awaits you?

Only a lot of attempts can be overtaken, and I know that you scientists are looking for opportunities to overtake in corners, but pinning your hopes on others is passive and undesirable after all. ”

"There is blood, but there is not enough reason."

Zhou Luwei clasped his hands and said, "You are mainly engaged in the retail industry, right?" I've been to your NIO supermarket, can I sell chips? Enterprises are engaged in R&D, but there is no sales direction, can they be motivated? One day you can't support it, what about those who stay?

They chose you as soon as they walked out of the school, they are all seedlings of science, you give up, where do they go to work? Changing careers and going into business? Forgive me for taking the liberty of cultivating business talents, but not cultivating scientific and technological talents, which is a waste of resources! ”

"I agree." Qian Cai smiled again and followed his words.

"Therefore, I plan to donate a sum of money to Fudan every year to set up a mathematics and chip design and manufacturing award to attract science talents to join chip-related majors, instead of choosing finance."

Zhou Luwei finally made some movement, and his hand was put down.

"How much?"

Qian Cai smiled and stretched out a finger: "One million, dollars." Later, he added: "8.27 million yuan." ”

Zhou Luwei was silent, and after a while, he shook his head again.

"I'm still the same one I asked..."

Qian Cai interrupted: "I haven't finished speaking, President Zhou's understanding of our NIO is not comprehensive enough, probably because Mr. Guo didn't make it clear to you, our company has invested in two Internet companies, Alibaba and NetEase, and our Weilai Weibo is now a benchmark for young people's online social culture."

Next, we are going to start the Internet search business, benchmarking Google, which requires a large number of servers, and some research on computing power, in the future, our demand for servers, will be tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of yuan, I have a piece of information here, which summarizes most of the Internet projects that we have been starting, you can take a look.

Scientific research is not groundless, a moment of enthusiasm, this is my personal money, but also gambled on my net worth, believe me, I am more cautious than you, I have a set of development plans, now I need talent support.

In the future, NIO will be proud to have a Fudan R&D talent, and Fudan will also be proud to be in NIO. ”

After Qian finished speaking, he took out a not very thick document from his bag and handed it to Zhou Luwei.

"You... Is it a high-tech company? Zhou Luwei said with some doubts, took the information, and flipped through it.

No way, during this time, the advertising of the Weilai entity in Shanghai during this period was too loud, in fact, Guo Guangxuan did not mention the industry of Weilai to him at all, he thought that Zhou Luwei must know about Weilai.

"The actual profitability of high-tech enterprises in our country is still too low, and it takes a lot of money to support talents alone, and only the entity as a blood supply chain can afford to support such a large R&D department, without enough cash flow, and I don't have the confidence to recruit in Fudan."

Qian Cai saw that Zhou Luwei looked at it seriously, and explained slowly.

Zhou Luwei stopped talking, looked at it, stared at it in a daze, and when he looked up again, his eyes were already a little dull.

Then he pointed the information at him, pointed to one of the above, and said a little incredulously: "You... You say that you are a 30 billion scale enterprise?? Three tens of billion? ”

Qian Cai said with a sudden look: "Ah! Yes, but this is the estimated market value of the IPO, but our group has only been established for more than a year, and the company has not been listed for less than two years! My actual assets are about 10 billion based on the accurate assessment data submitted to the ministry last year, but this year, there should be a rise of several billions. ”

This information was also made for several universities to see, this 30 billion is purely a fool's errand, that is, it is strong, but his 10 billion is real.

Zhou Luwei is aware of last year's Forbes rich list.

When he saw this information, he felt a little surprised.

If he really has 10 billions, the one opposite him will be the richest man in the mainland.

"Are you really going to go all out on scientific research?"

Qian Cai nodded seriously and said: "50% of the net profit is used as R&D funds, and the other 50% is used as development and dividend funds, we will be a large-scale enterprise with the highest proportion of scientific research investment in China." ”

Qian Cai silently counted the expenses of beverage research and development, mineral spring exploration and mining, and Weibo into the research and development.

"Mr. Qian, you convinced me, but... A million dollars in prize money..."

Qian Cai listened, quickly waved his hand and smiled: "President Zhou, this is 1 million US dollars a year, I am an alumnus of Jiaotong University, and I donate 10 million yuan every year at Jiaotong University. I have to go to Qingbei next! ”

Zhou Luwei suddenly said with some regret: "Oh, you go to Jiaotong University... Why don't you choose Fudan? ”

"My girlfriend is at Jiaotong University."

As soon as Qian Cai spoke, Zhou Luwei was speechless.

You can't say that our Fudan girls are also very good, right?? Isn't this pimping?

Qian thought about it and said suddenly.

"Oh, but I have a younger sister studying communication in Fudan, and I want you to take care of it."

(End of chapter)