Cheng Ran woke up, opened the quilt, and in the dusk, he brought the morning catkins. He got out of bed, washed up, looked at today's class schedule, and prepared to go downstairs to buy steamed buns and soy milk. Before leaving, a group of guys who were still lying on the ground turned around quickly and leaned over the bedside guardrail, "Mr. Chen, bring me breakfast! Thank you."
"My Lord, one more portion, thank you."
"I want one too, a fried Masu..."
Cheng Ran had no choice but to go to the canteen downstairs and bring back a big bag. He put it on the desk and said, "I'll treat you today." The three of them shouted long live, sat back in their seats, ate breakfast, packed their computers into their backpacks, took their notebooks, and then said, "Please ask for leave for the last two classes today."
The three of them were stunned. "You're not going to class? Are you going out of school for a few days again? What kind of place... Bring your brothers with you."
Li Wei reacted and asked worriedly, "Do we have to go to the Audit Office for review?"
"No, take care of the rest."
Several people suddenly became excited, "You mean the problem of the Skywalker Society is going to be solved?"
"It can probably be solved. Remember to ask for leave when the time comes."
With the three people giving him thumbs up and saying "Awesome! We're waiting!", Cheng Ran went out and went straight to the library.
In the library, I use an interface network cable to connect my laptop to the Internet to handle emails related to the process.
After completing the last approval on the email interface, he stood up and stretched, then found a few books on the bookshelf and piled them on the table. He read, drank tea, and waited for time to pass.
When the winter sun began to shine through the window and became warm and blazing, Cheng Ran packed up his things and left.
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On Wednesday, USTC welcomed a team of Nanzhou city leaders headed by Vice Mayor Li Jingping and Internet company representative Li Mingshi to conduct an investigation and research on the joint laboratory model of "university + enterprise + government".
Accompanying the investigation were Zhang Songnian, mayor of Nanzhou South District, Zhu Huaqing, senior party official and president of USTC, Huang Pei, deputy secretary of the party committee and vice president, Ding Dong, director of the Municipal Education Commission, Chen Jianping, director of the Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and other members of relevant functional units and business groups.
The banner was actually put up a day in advance. People in school were actually discussing the content of the banner, and the BBS was the most lively one.
"I heard that the president of CQ is coming to our school?"
"Li Mingshi? Then go tell him that the new version of CQ's frame is really ugly and not as good-looking as the previous version."
This kind of statement is of course a joke to attract attention. Since it is meant to stir up trouble, just be as blunt as you can.
"I told him it was okay, but I was afraid that if I made suggestions, the original designer would be kicked out. He insisted on recruiting me, and it would be difficult to refuse."
"Bullshit, it's hard to refuse... If I look at you more, I'll take your last name."
"I disagree with the previous classmate's opinion. We girls think the current fade-out border effect is pretty good."
"If I had any suggestions, I would ask him to raise the drop rate of the Thousand Hunter Sword in Spirit Realm. I've been playing for a whole day and spent two thousand gold coins worth of medicine, but I still haven't gotten it..." This is the voice of game players.
"What is Li Mingshi doing at HKUST?"
"I heard that they are investigating the joint construction of a laboratory. This time, Nanzhou City is also going to get serious and establish a strategic alliance. CQ is going to build a building in Nanzhou and cooperate with USTC. In the future, USTC's student union will be CQ's first choice for recruiting people!"
"Hey... this is still a benefit for the juniors. We are going to graduate this year. I hope this can be established by the time we graduate..."
Compared with the discussion on the BBS, there was a small incident when the research team entered the school. The students who met the research group on campus were different from their usual indifference. Some of them just stood on the side of the road and watched.
The school leaders probably know the truth, and in this situation, it is mostly the students who are waiting to see who Li Mingshi is.
At this time, the number of registered users of CQ in China reached 50 million, and the number of online users exceeded 1 million. It should be noted that in 2000, there were only about 7 million computers connected to the Internet in China. This number means that CQ is an indispensable software that must be installed on every computer. And almost everyone will use QQ to chat when they are online.
If it were a more influential one, college students probably wouldn’t want to see what kind of people are coming to their school. But CQ can be said to be closely related to everyone’s social life, because now everyone has a phone book, in addition to recording other people’s phone numbers, there is an additional process of asking the other party what their QQ number is. And there are also many men and women who have developed various jokes and stories from online to offline meetings through this software.
And if there are any problems during the Q chat, such as unstable disconnection, accidentally clicking on the advertisement column, or the message confessing to the girl timing out, everyone will verbally greet the CQ boss.
Now it is reasonable to think about what kind of person this is.
However, the party and government leaders of USTC who were responsible for accompanying the research and receiving the guests felt quite proud. The number of students watching from afar made the scene seem much more lively and the atmosphere was quite different compared to the previous research and investigation process where they, the party and government management, accompanied them.
Li Jingping has only recently taken up his new post in Nanzhou, but at a government meeting, he made the policy of fully promoting the construction of an industrial innovation service complex. The talent and scientific research strength contained in USTC, a leading university in Nanzhou and even in the country, is definitely the core of the reactor for the so-called "hundred-billion-dollar industrial fission" that he is leading.
In order to mobilize this energy of USTC, Li Jingping proposed a plan that includes a model of "government, university and enterprise" jointly creating a joint laboratory to promote the integration of industry, academia and research and achieve the goal of cultivating compound talents.
Today, Li Jingping inspected and investigated many key projects of USTC, including visits to the Innovation Center, Science and Engineering Research Center, Institute of Planning and Research and other related units, and spoke highly of USTC's scientific research and construction work.
He pointed out the support that these research platforms of USTC have provided to the local area, emphasized the important role of USTC's scientific research projects in industrial innovation, and gave suggestions and expectations on how to break through key technologies and effectively help the industry solve technological "bottlenecks".
In the eyes of HKUST leaders, Li Jingping's policies are actually quite smart. He wants to leave his own mark in the reform. How can he leave his own mark? The university-enterprise integration model he proposed is a reflection of this.
The previous industry-university cooperation model of Chinese universities has gone through school-run factories in the early days of the People's Republic of China, followed by school-run enterprises, and now basically remains at the school-run enterprise stage. However, the reform of school-run enterprises in the 1990s was not thorough, which made it difficult for many school-run enterprises to get rid of the inefficient operation situation. In 2000, the reform of school-run enterprises was again hotly debated. However, as to what specific direction it should go, the State Council Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the two top universities of Peking University and Tsinghua University have also established a research team, which is still in the research process. It is estimated that the research results will be reported to the State Council next year.
The influence of USTC is unquestionable. If Li Jingping can create a successful case at USTC, the influence will spread rapidly. If this model is proven to work, it will be further promoted in so many universities across the country, at least in dozens of first-class universities, which will cause a chain reaction.
CQ is a representative of current Internet companies, and has made considerable progress in instant messaging and gaming businesses. When CQ wanted to establish a branch in Nanzhou, the government directly provided land and policies. Li Mingshi, a figure who leads the Internet trend, revealed his vision of cooperating with universities, and HKUST certainly welcomed it.
After visiting these relevant scientific research units and centers of USTC, the leaders left, but the internal staff of the relevant units were somewhat looking forward to this inspection and investigation. For some projects that have nothing to do with Internet IT, they did not expect CQ Company to approach them for any technical research and development. The only thing they wanted to know was whether the visit of the deputy mayor and leaders of relevant departments would be helpful for their respective units in obtaining government support funds.
As for some units that are related to IT technology, the strong ones certainly don’t have to care about the financial support from the enterprise, but it is different for some relatively weak projects. They will have some expectations. If the enterprise can inject funds, then the products after technological research and development can be promoted and used in the enterprise’s channels, and getting dividends from shares is also a way.
However, which project teams CQ will cooperate with and which projects it plans to jointly develop are the focus of everyone's speculation and future competition.
The results are not out yet, so we have to wait and see.
…
After these campus visits, the next step was the argumentation phase that HKUST had been waiting for.
The demonstration phase is actually the time to see the real test, that is, how much money CQ can come up with. In other words, with the participation of the city leaders, the University of Science and Technology has displayed the resources at hand, and it depends on which art the boss wants to buy.
Because in the final analysis, school-enterprise cooperation is ultimately based on the needs and strategies of the enterprise itself. Universities fill in the blanks of what kind of technology and talents the enterprise needs. There is no other way, because they are the financial sponsors.
Huang Pei is a strong promoter of this school-enterprise cooperation. The benefits of introducing external research funds are self-evident, and the most important thing is that this is not a drop in the bucket. Because according to the news previously revealed by CQ, it is said that it plans to invest about 30 to 50 million yuan in cooperation with HKUST. The specific amount of funds that can be obtained really depends on how hard they work.
This is not a small amount. HKUST has 500 million yuan in R&D funding this year, which is really good. It is considered a high investment among domestic universities, at least among the top few. However, we should also see that HKUST has 1,500 research projects on campus this year, and the average amount of funds distributed to each project is less than 340,000 yuan.
If CQ can come up with 30 to 50 million yuan, it will be equivalent to the funding support for one or two large projects, which is very considerable. Not to mention that it can also drive the city's joint funding support, and even attract more excellent companies to invest funds after the pilot is successful.
Of course, these are all things to look forward to in the future. For now, we have such a big piece of fat meat, so we should just take a bite of it first.
After the review speech by the city leader Li Jingping, it was time for the highlight of the speech by Li Mingshi, which attracted everyone's attention.
When Li Mingshi first expressed his praise for HKUST's academic style and cultural spirit at the venue, and then went straight to the point and said that CQ intended to invest 80 million in batches to establish a multi-level laboratory plan with HKUST, the senior officials of HKUST present at the venue all took a deep breath.
Eighty million!
He quickly calculated in his mind that this was nearly 20% of HKUST's annual research funding. What kind of concept was this? Huang Pei's heart was beating violently with ecstasy, and even the president Zhu Huaqing beside him was moved.
Other relevant personnel from HKUST who participated in the meeting were all stunned... So this is how Internet companies spend money, it really makes people's hearts flutter!
But Huang Pei and Zhu Huaqing are both experienced and know that there is always a "but". Even if universities can provide a lot of scientific research results and patent projects, they may not be able to meet the needs of picky enterprises. It is not easy to meet the needs of enterprises. In this matter, the enterprise is the first party.
Even if a letter of intent is signed and the agreement is implemented as required, very few people can actually get the full amount of money.
So even though it was extremely tempting, they were still quietly waiting for Li Mingshi's but.
As expected, there is a but.
Li Mingshi then said, "We have actually already had internal discussions and finalized the target groups for the fund allocation and the co-construction of laboratories with HKUST. We have also passed a series of assessments and conducted relevant cooperation. We are quite satisfied with the results of the cooperation."
"So you already have a target?" Zhu Huaqing's expression brightened. "Which team has President Mingshi set his sights on?"
"It's not on today's research list. To be honest, the amount of funding just now was also temporarily added after I made up my mind about today's research at HKUST. As for the team leader, I just notified him and he should be on his way."
Everyone at HKUST was slightly stunned. It would be better if the company could have a clear goal. This would avoid all the adjustments in the early stages of the organization and at least save one step. However, it seemed very unusual that someone could be noticed by CQ.
Huang Pei's mind flashed through several lists. He could see that Principal Zhu was also thinking the same thing. He smiled at Li Mingshi, "Mr. Li is still keeping us in suspense... Is it Professor Chen's team? Or Professor Zhang Chenqing? He told me not long ago that he was working on a voice system. If he came, I would definitely scold him first. He hid such a good thing from me..."
But after seeing that Li Mingshi did not express his opinion, the HKUST administration felt a little uneasy. It was hard to say where this uneasiness came from, perhaps it was just intuition.
This is a large round conference table with a low bonsai in the middle. They are all sitting at the main table, while people from government departments, HKUST, and corporate entourage are sitting on the periphery, taking notes.
Huang Pei looked at the empty chairs at the symposium. He guessed that everyone was now guessing who would sit on them later.
Then after knocking on the door, almost everyone's eyes turned over, and a young man entered in full view of everyone.
Cheng Ran just ignored the gazes of the city leaders and the top party and government officials of USTC.
Walked straight to the conference table... and sat on the chair.