Soon, Christmas is coming.
As the capital of a province and a first-tier city in China, Hangzhou has a very festive atmosphere, with snowflakes, evergreen rings (Christmas rings), bells, and ribbons hanging on the streets and alleys.
Christmas in Hangzhou is a different kind of Christmas, at least for Xiao Yue'er, it's fun.
But Li Zetian told her, "The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival!"
Xiao Yue'er looked at Li Zetian curiously with her bright, big eyes, "Dad, what is the Spring Festival?"
When Li Zetian heard this, he was suddenly stunned. How could Chinese children not know about the Spring Festival? It's ridiculous to say it, but it's true.
"The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the traditional name is New Year. Yue'er, did you know that the Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years..."
"A history of more than 40,000 years?!" Xiao Yue'er was very surprised when she heard it.
"Dad, Dad, tell me more about this Spring Festival!" Xiao Yue'er pestered Li Zetian and said, it could be seen that at this moment, she was full of curiosity about the Spring Festival.
Li Zetian smiled, held her in his arms, touched her little head, and began to tell the story of the Spring Festival vividly, "After more than 4,000 years, the Spring Festival has been prosperous and prosperous, showing the inherent charm and vitality of Chinese culture. The values contained in it are an important guarantee for the Chinese civilization to become the only ancient civilization in the world that continues to this day, and it is also a solid foundation for the rise of China today..."
A few minutes later, after listening to Li Zetian's words, Xiao Yue'er couldn't help but yearn for the Spring Festival, and couldn't help but ask, "Dad, when will we celebrate the Spring Festival?"
Li Zetian touched her little head again and smiled, "Haha, it's early, there are still two months!"
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After coming to Hangzhou, Li Zetian was not idle. He had mentioned the establishment of the Hangzhou branch of the University of Cronos in Hangzhou. Taking advantage of the time, Li Zetian decided to do it. He went to the Hangzhou government and explained his purpose. When the other party heard that it was to run a university, and it was to run it according to the scale of a top university, he was overjoyed and expressed his support at that time, and designated a large area as a school land, and Li Zetian voted for it. Nearly a billion dollars went into this school.
Running a school is actually very profitable. For example, Harvard University has a revenue budget of about $3 billion in 2017 alone, with a rate of return of 8.5%, making it the richest university in the world. Other universities, if not as rich as Harvard, are certainly lucrative.
However, Li Zetian doesn't look down on the money, what he values is talent.
China has a population of 1.3 billion. With such a huge population base, it stands to reason that China has many more talents than the United States. But the truth is, the United States has gathered the world's best talent. In addition to the influx of global talents to the United States, the teaching level of American schools is also very important.
To put it badly, Chinese education is a kind of cramming education, blindly emphasizing on laying the foundation, resulting in a lot of mechanical repetitive homework, as a result, it has created batches of talents with high scores and low skills, which is difficult to cultivate. world-class scientists. And foreign education, it pays attention to cultivating students' practical ability and innovation ability.
Li Zetian is still more inclined to the concept of foreign education.
Kronos University has already achieved success in Hong Kong and has become a world-class university, and now it is not starting from scratch in Hangzhou to establish a branch. Li Zetian believes that there will be many outstanding students willing to enter this school.
After this matter was settled, Li Zetian also consulted with the Hangzhou government.
After hearing this, the leaders of Hangzhou City were stunned.
"City Brain?!"
"Yes, that's right, it is the city brain. In fact, it uses artificial intelligence and big data to manage the city!" Li Zetian was afraid that the leaders of Hangzhou would not understand, so he explained in more detail, "The city brain is the connection between government departments and enterprises. The information checkpoint is a big platform for shared data built for urban governance. The core system of the platform is the use of artificial intelligence technology of Cronos Industry, which can conduct global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and eventually evolve into a system capable of governance. Super artificial intelligence in cities.”
"The first step of the urban brain project team is to digitize all infrastructures such as transportation, energy, and water supply, connect the data resources scattered in various units of the city, and open up the 'neural network'. Taking transportation as an example, through cameras, sensing equipment, The construction of field sensing equipment such as monitoring, as well as the algorithm application of urban traffic big data, can realize the first application of AI technology in the field of urban brain transportation. By then, tens of billions of urban traffic management data, public service data, operators Data and Internet data are centrally input into Hangzhou's 'city brain', and these data become the origin of the wisdom of the 'city brain'!"
Li Zetian swept his eyes and said confidently: "I believe that with the development of the city brain plan, a very big change will take place in the development of world cities, and the city brain will become a very important infrastructure for future cities, which will give Our future life brings greater convenience and imagination! So… is Hangzhou willing to be the first city to do this kind of experiment?”
Achievement!
Achievement! !
Achievement! ! !
That's what the officials had in mind at this point.
"Mr·Li, Hangzhou is a city that is determined to forge ahead and a city that dares to innovate. So, we are willing to give it a try!"
"The spirit of Hangzhou is to dare to be the first!!!"
"… "
The officials expressed their support one after another. Finally, the mayor said: "However, this project is very difficult, and I am afraid it will cost a lot..." After speaking, his eyes turned to Li Zetian.
Damn, I help Hangzhou build an urban brain, you still want to ask me for money? !
Li Zetian was a little speechless. Of course, he is also out of selfishness, and getting a city brain can not only speed up the development of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, using the artificial intelligence of Koronos Industries, to a certain extent, is equivalent to Li Zetian getting a part of the management of the city. The city brain monitors the entire city, doesn't it mean he monitors the entire city
If the Hangzhou City Brain is successful and the effect is obvious, it will be much easier to promote it to other cities. At that time, these cities will take the initiative to cooperate with Li Zetian and ask for money!
But at the moment, we can't just let the Hangzhou government take advantage of it. We can ask for money, but we must provide compensation. Li Zetian is shrewd, he said lightly: "Mayor, I am very optimistic about the city brain project, and I hope it can be successful. I know it is difficult and it will cost a lot of money, but I can 'borrow money' to the government, but …”
GDP is the most important part of the assessment of local officials. For the sake of political performance and promotion, local officials boldly started to use "future money" to start current projects. Running a school, transportation... I don't have enough money, so of course I have to borrow it. Therefore, it is normal for the government to borrow money. However, the state generally does not allow local governments to issue bonds, so local governments use a special "state-owned enterprise" for financing, thereby realizing disguised borrowing.
At this time, when the mayor heard that Li Zetian wanted to borrow money from the government, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he hurriedly asked, "But what?!!"
"First of all, in business, I have to calculate the loan interest; secondly, I hope that most of the basic equipment for building the urban brain will use our company's products, such as cameras, cables, and network equipment."
"No problem, no problem!" The mayor and the others looked at each other and agreed, these two demands were not excessive.