Chapter 253: Borrowing the East Wind

In the past few years, it has been the time when domestic universities and various R&D units have been most short of funding. Except for universities in Yanjing and Shanghai, where funding is relatively sufficient, they also use methods like self-funded students to supplement funding.

Universities in these two places are still like this. As for the days passed by universities and R&D institutions in other places, one can imagine.

"Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs; those who hold scalpels are not as good as those who hold razors." Although it is a joke, it also somewhat tells the truth that in the past few years, practitioners related to academics have not had a good life.

Starting from next year, the path of self-funded students began to be blocked. The benefits of universities in the past—guaranteed distribution, free tuition, and living expenses—were also terminated, and the era of self-funded universities began.

The arrival of the era of self-funded universities is a kind of running-in for both colleges and people who go to college. Now many people are panicked.

However, not all universities are like this. For example, Hanxi Jiaoda has had a pretty good life in the past few years. The Zhixing Foundation donates a sum of funding to Hanxi Jiaoda every year. The most important thing is the appearance of the Hanxi Joint Laboratory.

Relying on the cooperation with the Hanxi Joint Laboratory, Hanxi Jiaoda has obtained considerable income. Especially behind the hot sales of electronic pet machines, Shenzhou digital cordless phones, and Xiaolingtong, many departments and professors of Hanxi Jiaoda have participated in R&D.

Although when the agreement was signed, the patents, technologies, and products researched by the Hanxi Joint Laboratory all belonged to Dongling High-Tech.

But Dongling High-Tech did not pit Hanxi Jiaoda. As long as results were researched, they gave Hanxi Jiaoda a share according to the income, which served as the R&D funding for Hanxi Jiaoda!

Just in the first half of this year, Hanxi Jiaoda received a share of more than 220 million RMB in the Hanxi Joint Laboratory because of the hot sales of Shenzhou digital cordless phones and Xiaolingtong. In addition to the generous returns for the personnel participating in R&D, Hanxi Jiaoda also received a share of more than 220 million RMB, which served as the R&D funding for Hanxi Jiaoda!

Comparing this share in the first half of the year with the R&D funding input of major domestic universities last year, it is second only to a few famous universities like Huaching, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong, Fudan, and Qiantang University. You know, Huaching's R&D funding last year was only over 400 million.

Comparing horizontally, one knows how Hanxi Jiaoda's life is now, and one can also understand the significance of the appearance of Dongling High-Tech and the Hanxi Joint Laboratory to Hanxi Jiaoda. Just from the funding, Hanxi Jiaoda's current R&D funding is already among the top domestic universities.

This can also tell what kind of eyes other universities in Hanxi Province and the provincial capital have when looking at Hanxi Jiaoda. It is estimated that their eyes are a bit red.

Of course, compared to the funding that top universities like Harvard and Stanford abroad can get every year, and the treatment provided to scientific research personnel, whether it is Hanxi Jiaoda or Huaching, they are still far behind. This is not a day's work that can be changed.

In the office of the dean of the mining and metallurgy department of Xigongda in Hanxi Province, at this moment, many school leaders of Xigongda gathered here. It is really that the sky-high funding came too suddenly, without a trace of preparation.

"The Zhixing Foundation has always been close to Hanxi Jiaoda. Why did it suddenly run to our Xigongda?!" A school leader of Xigongda couldn't help but say.

Zhan Zhikai, who is in charge of Xigongda's funding, was unhappy when he heard this. Look at how white his hair has become in the past few years. Before managing Xigongda's purse, he was black-haired. In the past few years, he was really worried about money.

The whole Xigongda has to reach out to him for money. Young teachers are complaining, saying that their wages are not as good as those who set up stalls at the school gate, shouting to raise wages. Old professors ask him for R&D funding, and he also has to toss about subsidies for students from poor families.

Now, it is not easy for a god of wealth to come. Xigongda's group of people is still suspicious. The money sent by the Zhixing Foundation, even if the King of Heaven comes, he must keep it.

Zhan Zhikai also envies Hanxi Jiaoda. He also wants to subsidize Xigongda's students, but Hanxi Jiaoda can take away more than 200 million in R&D funding from the Joint Laboratory in half a year, providing canteen subsidies for the three meals a day for all the students of Hanxi Jiaoda. Where can he get money to subsidize?

Currently, the price of meals at Hanxi Jiaoda is the best and cheapest within the entire Hanxi Province. This is built on the premise of sufficient subsidies provided by Hanxi Jiaoda. Many students from other schools run to the Hanxi Jiaoda canteen to grab a meal and supplement their nutrition.

Without comparison, there is no harm. Comparing the treatment provided by Hanxi Jiaoda to teachers and students—cheap meals with plenty of oil and water, and planning to build new computer buildings, new staff dormitories, and new student dormitories—other universities in Hanxi Province have been complained about and complained about, and he, Zhan Zhikai, has not been scolded for being stingy.

"Where is our Xigongda worse? Our mining department is a top-five major in the country, and it is also a loud name in the international arena. Can't we accept the donation of the Zhixing Foundation?!"

Zhan Zhikai slapped the table and said, although this money is donated to the mining and metallurgy department, the whole Xigongda is short of funding. This donation will leave a part for the mining and metallurgy department, but the rest will be used elsewhere. This is a helpless way.

Zou Shi Yan, sitting in his office, looked at the office that was about to become a vegetable market, and also had a big head. Now the mining and metallurgy department is not considered an unpopular major. The demand for steel is strong, and there is quite a demand for related practitioners. Every unit needs them. But it is not considered an unpopular major, but it does not mean that it has become a popular major. The Zhixing Foundation suddenly came to the door, and as soon as it came, it donated 10 million, which is equivalent to one-eighth of the total R&D funding Xigongda received this year!

This is not to say that the mining and metallurgy department is surprised, the whole Xigongda was shocked for a while.

Coughing, Zou Shi Yan said to Zhan Zhikai and a group of school leaders, "I think it is better to call Old Han of Hanxi Jiaoda. He is the dean of the School of Radio of Hanxi Jiaoda and is familiar with the Zhixing Foundation. He must know the situation!"

Zhan Zhikai and others heard this, looked at each other, and nodded. The Zhixing Foundation suddenly came to the door and brought out such a large donation, clearly having something to ask for. Although it is a donation, if the matter is not done, the Zhixing Foundation cannot do anything, but in the future, it is afraid that the two sides will not be easy to deal with.

If possible, how could Xigongda not want to be like Hanxi Jiaoda, become a cooperative university of the Joint Laboratory, and research projects with Dongling High-Tech? That is the big head. The donation is gone after it is spent, but cooperating with the Joint Laboratory, researching products for Dongling High-Tech, Hanxi Jiaoda is a living example, and can get a lot of funding!

In Hanxi Jiaoda, sitting in his dean's office, tasting tea, Han Qianyi heard the phone on the table ring, put down the teacup unhurriedly, and smiled at Liu Youguo sitting opposite, "Make a bet, this phone is from Xigongda!"

"I have no interest in making any bets with you!"

Liu Youguo simply didn't pick up the topic, flipping through an application for restructuring the radio technology major. The radio major is now the hottest major in Hanxi Jiaoda.

But now, radio technology can no longer keep up with the times, especially the newly emerged majors like computers, mobile phones, communications, etc. So Han Qianyi decided to reorganize the radio technology major of Hanxi Jiaoda into the School of Information and Communication Engineering.

This is not to say a word, change a name and finish it. It requires recruiting more professional teachers, purchasing professional teaching equipment, compiling more tutorials, and setting up more majors. The students recruited naturally have to be more, and the cost is not a small amount. But the current radio technology major is not short of money, has sufficient funding, and supports Han Qianyi to do these things.

For Liu Youguo's attitude, Han Qianyi was not annoyed at all. Who let Liu Youguo be the god of wealth of this department, and even Hanxi Jiaoda? The team he leads brings huge R&D funding to Hanxi Jiaoda every year. Plus, he is also the master of Li Dongling, Chen Tao, and others. Then even if he walks sideways in Hanxi Jiaoda, it is estimated that someone will specially pave a road for him.

"It's cheap for Xigongda!" Before picking up the phone, Han Qianyi also muttered. No way, who let Xigongda have a cow person like Academician Shi!

After talking to Han Qianyi on the phone, Zou Shi Yan, Zhan Zhikai, and a group of people from Xigongda knew what the Zhixing Foundation was for, and they were all refreshed.

As long as they can invite Academician Shi to join the carbon fiber fishing rod laboratory, then in the future, Xigongda will have the opportunity to get the same treatment as Hanxi Jiaoda at Dongling High-Tech. Subsequently, waves of people from Xigongda began to run to Yanjing, begging Academician Shi to come out.

Half a month later, Hanxi Jiaoda, Xigongda, and Harbin Institute of Technology successively announced that they would join the Mainland Fishing Gear R&D Center and officially began to research carbon fiber fishing rods. And subsequently, the number one person in domestic materials, Academician Shi, joined the Mainland Fishing Gear R&D Center and served as an R&D consultant!

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