From the Integrated Circuit Design Competition of USTC, we can see why the School of Computer Science and Technology strived hard in front of Huang Pei to hold the event. Since the event was initiated by Tianxing Society, the registered teams have been required to prepare for a week, and then the competition was held in the octagonal building of the School of Computer Science and Technology. As expected, there will be brave men under great rewards, because the prize money is huge, there are three to four hundred people who have registered, and there are more than twenty teams.
The competition content covers multiple integrated circuit design categories such as circuit design, system design, layout design, simulation verification, etc. Of course, the reviewers and judges are all teachers and professors of relevant majors in the School of Computer Science, and several media outlets have been notified. Among them, Cheng Ran also met Xie Feibai's sister Wang Yulan, who is a journalist.
Wang Yulan's Business Daily Group launched the Economic Report weekly this year. In response to the current rise of domestic financial media, it was established in Nanzhou.
Wang Yulan was also among the first group of people who came here. USTC still has a very high status in China. This integrated circuit design competition was held in the name of the Institute of Computer Science and Technology, and in response to Document No. 18 of the State Council, some related publications and newspapers were also published in USTC. Wang Yulan also ran into Cheng Ran at the scene, so the two greeted each other.
Wang Yulan asked Cheng Ran, "Xie Feibai drove away a car from my family. My mother was soft-hearted at the time and said that it was to support him with his classes. His political science and law university is in a remote place and it is inconvenient without a car. Did he often come to see you and show off by taking you to play around?"
Cheng Ran shook his head repeatedly, "No, no, we just live and study normally when we meet." Xie Feibai's sister was wearing a white suit today. After working in the workplace, she also cut her hair short. She now had a tough and smart image. Cheng Ran knew very well that Xie Feibai had always been oppressed by his sister, so he dared not say much.
Wang Yulan looked over with narrowed eyes, "Are you covering for him?"
Cheng Ran laughed, "No, no. In fact, he is a sensible and grown-up man. You don't have to look at him with the same eyes as before. I think Feibai has grown a lot."
Wang Yulan said, "I think that some things in a person's bones are unchanging. Well, the competition that your University of Science and Technology is holding this time is quite novel. It is an integrated circuit design competition. I have never heard of any university in China holding one. When I came to Nanzhou, someone told me that many things here at the University of Science and Technology are cutting-edge. Every new thing is worth paying attention to, because maybe in a few years, this thing will bring great economic and social effects. Are you a volunteer or a staff member? I won't bother you, go and get busy."
Wang Yulan just happened to run into Cheng Ran and they chatted for a while. Then the leaders from USTC and the media who came to interview her went to share some knowledge. Everyone had to go to a room and have a unified explanation. Because many reporters were not majored in related fields, without such popularization, sometimes they didn’t even know what the content of their report was, and it was inevitable that there would be knowledge errors.
Wang Yulan and Cheng Ran were chatting until the time was almost up, so they ended their conversation and followed the newspaper reporters who had arrived today to a multimedia classroom. A responsible teacher from the School of Computer Science and Technology asked everyone to take a seat at the podium, and then said that the president of our Tianxing Society would explain to everyone today the reasons and consequences of why such a design competition was held.
The reporters at the scene were not surprised, but at least they felt something strange because the speaker was not this teacher, or any professor or dean, but a college student.
Cheng Ran opened the slides and told everyone about the backwardness of the country's related industries, the lack of ability to catch up in related fields, and the pain points. The original intention of HKUST to start from small things and hold an integrated circuit design competition on campus to activate creativity in this area was the whole story.
What made the journalists present feel different was that such a college student could speak so concisely and to the point, which aroused and motivated their emotions. The whole room was filled with the sound of pens taking notes. At the end, Cheng Ran's sentence "Today's competition may be immature and have many shortcomings in mechanism, but as long as it continues to develop, I hope that a single spark can start a prairie fire." I believe it will be used as the ending sentence of many newspaper articles today.
After the popularization meeting was over, the media came out one after another, and Wang Yulan approached Cheng Ran, "The organizer has a Tianxing Society, so you are the president of this club at HKUST?"
Cheng Ran nodded.
"He became the president in his freshman year?" Wang Yulan raised her eyebrows. "Is this also an event organized by you?"
"It's not enough to rely on the club alone. We also need the support of the department and the green light from the school. We just play the role of advocacy and providing people and systems. The classrooms, computers and related evaluations for today's competition are all done by the school. So it's a big deal."
"What did you mean when you said this activity is still immature?"
"This is the first time. Of course, no university in China has done this before, but we need some help from newspapers to report on it and create some influence. Just like the original intention I mentioned before, it can arouse more people's interest in this field and get more people involved in this cause, so that we can gather enough talents, investment and policies. This is also the first time that USTC has done this, and even in USTC, there are still too few relevant talents, so there is no need to set too high a standard to see what complex and high-tech works college students can come up with in this competition. This is more of an event to stimulate everyone's interest and discover the talents of talents."
Wang Yulan tilted her head to look at him and smiled, "So, you need us to report this matter widely, including the previous unified statement, which is actually to create a sense of crisis?"
"I don't agree with the idea of creating a sense of crisis, because the crisis is already there. It is a fact that our country lags behind in related fields. In my opinion, we need to catch up on a large scale. There is Document No. 18 and the large-scale investment in integrated circuits by the national team. We can also start from small things like us," said Cheng Ran.
Wang Yulan stared at him, "Then can I understand that USTC is actually just the first step? If possible, you will expand the scope as much as possible, connecting different universities and colleges across the country, and even remove the word USTC in front of the USTC Integrated Circuit Design Competition in the future?"
Cheng Ran thought to himself that Xie Feibai's sister was indeed a good journalist. Her keen sense and nose for the subject could be applied to other situations.
Wang Yulan smiled, "I figured out how to write the manuscript."
Then this proud woman who graduated from the most top journalism university in the country and now came to Nanzhou as one of the veterans of Economic News said, "The electronic industry is booming in the great era. It has been a difficult road for fifty years with a lack of cores and souls. The young people have the ambition to swallow mountains and rivers. When we meet on a narrow road, I am willing to forge Tai'a with sparks. One day, I will carry a dragon sword and slay all evil. Who is afraid? I will be protected for the rest of my life with a raincoat."
Perhaps Wang Yulan did not expect that the words she wrote would be cited as a classic and become a portrayal of an exciting journey.
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The purpose of holding the integrated circuit design competition is not to come up with some earth-shattering technology. To put it in a more vivid way, Cheng Ran just made a network to frame all the undergraduate, master and doctoral students of USTC, and to find the unpolished gems among them that can be polished.
Moreover, we need to digest these talents at multiple levels, give them to Nie Yun and Hu Zhiwei to develop, or put them in Tianxingshe to practice with countless outsourced projects, and strive to get more technical research institutes with the resources of the University of Science and Technology to tap talents of different categories and make full use of them. Finally, put them in Hanwu, CQ, and Lianzhong...
This integrated circuit design competition held by HKUST can also serve as a forward-looking experience. The subject design, process operation, and media cooperation standards included in it can be used in other universities or even cross-university operations in the future.
This is actually what technology companies in later generations are generally doing. They cooperate with universities to hold technology competitions, and then better allocate talents and employment from them. At the same time, they can also promote the company's system, welfare and strategy. On the one hand, it solves the problem of the way out for outstanding talents on campus, and on the other hand, it allows technology companies to gain reputation and talents and accumulate social prestige. It can be said to be a win-win situation. In this way, potential talents from universities can be tied to the warship one by one. In the talent strategy of the 21st century, whoever has a large base of scientific researchers can break through with force.
As a top university in the relevant field in China, HKUST has the platform and resources for Cheng Ran to exert his power, and also has the appeal of making a call. As long as the competition is successful and a pattern is formed, it will be very smooth to promote it in the future, and it will also be able to better cooperate with the local government for promotion and obtain a lot of policy resources support.
The IC design competition produced a champion, a runner-up, and several outstanding people in different categories. These people were either targeted by Nie Chuan of Tianxing Society or Nie Yun who was engaged in the research and development of Hanwu. However, Cheng Ran was not worried that the discovered talents would flow out, because in fact, these people only had potential. In the relevant professional fields, if there was no one to lead them, it would still be difficult for them to stand out. Now, whether it is a multinational company or domestic research and development, what is required is qualified people who can be used after training. Probably no company or organization is willing to wait for you to grow slowly.
The competition was a complete success and the departments and colleges also gained a lot of inspiration. The competition took a week to prepare, and then on the day of the competition, we had to work on the computer for four hours to produce the results. During this process, many professors from the School of Computer Science were on site to provide technical guidance to many teams. The value of this competition was also seen from these guidances, and some of the talents have been targeted by some research institutes of USTC.
Media reports have also attracted attention to this competition. Some people in the academic community have written articles stating that USTC's integrated circuit design competition is the first of its kind in China, and that universities in related fields could take this as an example and hold more such events.
Almost immediately after the USTC's integrated circuit design competition came to an end, a newly established association in Tsinghua University called "Tianxing Tsinghua Society" also began preparations for related competition activities at Tsinghua and Peking University in collaboration with the neighboring Peking University.
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Cheng Ran told Jiang Hongshao all about Tianxing Society, its philosophy, its operation, the excitement of the integrated circuit design competition, and the university roommates, seniors, and seniors who were doing this together. Then, after Jiang Hongshao listened to all that Cheng Ran said quietly, her voice became a little softer, like the autumn sky and water, warm and melancholy.
"Cheng Ran... I'm so envious."
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From Jiang Ge... envy.
People who have never dealt with Jiang Hongshao probably don't know how likely it is that she would say this. It's like Ultraman suddenly stops fighting the monsters one day, or the cat complains that the fish in front of it is not as delicious as the rice in the pot next door.
But she was envious. Yes, since the turmoil in Chengdu caused the situation to become turbulent, she went abroad to study, and it seemed that Lao Jiang was ready to face the storm alone.
However, most people probably only see her carefreeness, but don't know that behind her strength, after she used tutoring and library inspection work to strive for financial independence, she devoted all her efforts to the relatively tight study courses. She often had a piece of bread, two slices of bacon and a vegetable salad as the protein and vitamins she needed for a day, working day and night, and she actually lived a very long time.
Will she ever feel lonely
In this rather monotonous life, Cheng Ran is like her window, through which she can see the colorful university life that she could not experience or touch after going abroad, and those like-minded friends who work together and can laugh and joke with each other without hindrance.
She probably doesn't have these.
So she watched Cheng Ran's college life, and would laugh as she listened, and would laugh as she watched, as if this was exactly what she had once longed for.
So she would be envious.
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On the day when the IC design competition ended, volunteers from the Tianxing Society and the Student Union cleaned up the site, removed banners, and picked up trash. The volunteer team led by Zhang Jing sorted out all the various tables and chairs on the site and came to meet Cheng Ran and others. Everyone excitedly high-fived to celebrate the complete success of the competition. After high-fiving Cheng Ran, Zhang Jing looked him in the eye and greeted him with a smile, "Congratulations!"
Cheng Ran said, "The credit belongs to everyone."
At dusk, a golden halo roamed the campus, shining on the excited faces. It was a halo of shared commitment, meaning, and a sense of achievement.
Zhang Jing stood next to Cheng Ran and thought that they must look great at this moment.
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Later, someone suggested that we go to the South Gate to eat hotpot to celebrate. Everyone responded and filled three tables.
Originally, Cheng Ran was going to treat everyone, but everyone agreed to go Dutch, because they could get together like this many times in the future, so they pooled their money and when it was Cheng Ran's turn, Zhang Jing smiled and said, "You've cheated me so many times, this time you pay for me!" Each person paid twenty, and Cheng Ran joined Zhang Jing, so the two of them paid forty.
But the rest of the people on the side cheered and laughed in a very ghostly way.
When returning to school, Cheng Ran took out the last few tickets and gave them to his roommates, including two to Wang Xinbo and one to Zhang Jing.
"Let's go to a concert together."
Everyone exclaimed in amazement, and Zhang Jing's eyes seemed to be as bright as the stars that night.
In the last month of the new century, when they were in college, a group of them went to see Qin Xizhen's Nanzhou concert together.
This will probably become a memory for many people at that time, and will also be a profound commemoration for their group.
On that day, a large number of students from the University of Science and Technology went to the Nanzhou Stadium. Many of them paid for their own tickets, including Zhang Jing's roommates, who shouted that Cheng Ran only gave Zhang Jing a ticket and that they couldn't be alone together, and they had to be a light bulb. However, when they arrived at the scene, they couldn't take revenge because they had different seats, so they had to separate with hatred.
The tickets that Cheng Ran left for his roommates were consecutive numbers, so Wang Xinbo, his girlfriend Gao Yue, Li Wei, Lao Guo, and Zhang Jing sat in the same row in the stands. They were not in-field tickets, but their seats were very close to the front of the stands.
Qin Xizhen's concert was just as Cheng Ran suggested before, with the theme of artistic conception as the main theme and performance as the secondary theme. Various musical forms were performed in the process, including playing the piano in a long skirt under the spotlight, with her fingers flying like a feather, and playing alone with a guitar, accompanied by handsome men, and famous bands. The stage effects also changed, such as forest, planet, universe, fairy tale, and classical music. Sometimes she wore a long skirt, sometimes dressed like a witch, and sometimes wore a white lace skirt with white smoke rising from the stage.
The singing pierced the stadium with tens of thousands of people.
Cheng Ran had heard some of the songs before, but some were new to him, and probably brand new. The people around him would sing along during some of the choruses.
Wang Xinbo and his girlfriend Gao Yue snuggled up to each other, feeling extremely happy. Lao Guo and Li Wei were arm in arm, screaming "oh oh" continuously. It was Zhang Jing's first time participating in such a performance, and she was also infected by the atmosphere. At this time, all emotions would be magnified, making people immersed in the singing along with the atmosphere.
During the process, some people still sent text messages or called. Cheng Ran put down his phone with the bright screen, waved with the people around him, and faced the woman on the stage who was the master and singing to the delight of everyone.
In the cell phone he put back in his trouser pocket lay a text message he had received before the performance.
"I don't have time today in Nanzhou. Let's have dinner together tomorrow."