Chapter 411: Customized Version

It is hard to say clearly what the relationship between Shenzhen University and those few giant companies was; perhaps saying they achieved each other would not be an exaggeration.

Those few giant companies, along with countless large and small companies in Shenzhen, gave a large number of campus recruitment quotas to Shenzhen University every year. Even when interviewing for those companies, people from 985 and 211 backgrounds might not be able to compete with people from Shenzhen University.

And Shenzhen University, in turn, tailored majors for companies like the Chrysanthemum Factory, providing them with a large number of talents, in addition to cooperative research projects, and so on.

If Pingyang University could reach the level of Shenzhen University, opening majors for Dongling High-Tech, cultivating professional talents, and jointly researching projects, then for Dongling High-Tech, it would indeed be a helping hand!

Of course, the premise was that Pingyang University could develop; otherwise, throwing so much money into it would just be money down the drain.

Seeing the deliberative expression on Li Dongling's face, Shen Qingyuan couldn't help but feel a bit anxious. He had been the principal of Pingyang University for many years, but the development in the first few years really couldn't be considered very good. Pingyang University wasn't considered very famous within Hanxi Province.

The reason Shen Qingyuan was willing to promise the Pingyang municipal government that Pingyang University would not move away was also because he held the idea of "rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix." Even if they moved to the provincial capital, Pingyang University might not be able to get many resources, so it was better to stay in Pingyang and take a gamble.

And what made Shen Qingyuan come up with this idea was naturally related to Dongling High-Tech. If it weren't for Dongling High-Tech, he wouldn't have dared to make those big claims in front of the media.

"Principal Shen, I have also heard about those words of yours in the *Pingyang Daily*. Dongling High-Tech has always been willing to support Pingyang University, and it will be the same in the future!"

Li Dongling's words made Shen Qingyuan breathe a sigh of relief. As long as Li Dongling didn't directly oppose it, it meant there was a chance.

"Regarding the project of letting Peking University, Hanxi Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and others help build majors for Pingyang University, Dongling High-Tech and the Li family are both willing to provide the necessary support and funding!

But, Principal Shen, there is a specialty in the arts; Pingyang University, after all, cannot compare to Tsinghua, Peking University, etc. It must have its own strengths to break out of the encirclement!"

Shen Qingyuan listened to Li Dongling's words. As someone who dealt with cultured people every day, how could he not hear the subtext in Li Dongling's words?

It sounded like Li Dongling wanted to establish a few strong majors for Pingyang University so that it could stand out among the large wave of universities in the country.

But on the other hand, these words also meant letting Pingyang University cooperate with Dongling High-Tech. Whatever majors Dongling High-Tech needed, Pingyang University would help cultivate talents, establish laboratories, research technologies, etc., for those majors.

If it were any other university, whether it was Tsinghua, Peking University, or even Hanxi Jiaotong University, it would be unlikely that they would really specially establish a major for Dongling High-Tech.

"This is only natural!"

"Pingyang University and Dongling High-Tech are both in Pingyang; they should be one body and naturally should cooperate fully!"

Shen Qingyuan didn't think much and agreed directly. Did Pingyang University have any famous majors now? Even if it did, compared to the dozens of universities in the provincial capital, it had no advantage.

It was better to lean on Dongling High-Tech. Who knows, they might be able to create strong majors and make Pingyang University famous, which wouldn't waste all the hard work Shen Qingyuan had done for so many years. At the level he stood, all he cared about was his legacy. He wanted to rewrite Pingyang University's school history, starting with him!

"To Pingyang University!"

Li Dongling raised his glass to Shen Qingyuan. After clinking glasses, Li Dongling said, "Besides the majors that Hanxi Jiaotong University is helping Pingyang University build, I hope that Pingyang University can work with Dongling High-Tech's Technical Department, the Hanxi Joint Laboratory, Hanxi Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and other universities to jointly establish majors in Communication Engineering, Semiconductor Engineering Materials, and so on!"

Communication Engineering was used to research 2G, 3G, 4G, and other technologies, and Semiconductor Materials Engineering was to cultivate talents for chips. These were all talents that Dongling High-Tech needed now and in the future.

Of course, for those who studied these two majors, as long as they entered the field, even if they didn't enter Dongling High-Tech, they wouldn't have to worry about not having a job in the future. Domestic companies like the Chrysanthemum Factory, ZTE, Great Wall, Giant Dragon, Datang, etc., would almost fight for them. There were also companies like China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, China Tower, etc., which they could enter with their eyes closed.

Not just domestically, running to America, Germany, Japan, Korea, and other places, they were also in short supply, and earning a high salary was no problem.

As for the semiconductor industry, it was true that the domestic semiconductor industry was withering now, but as long as they held on for these few years, they basically wouldn't have to worry about finding a job. Moreover, in this line of work, the older you get, the more valuable you become. This line of work was too lacking in experienced engineers. Chip rangers in their sixties or seventies were still being fought over by Intel, AMD, Tesla, and Apple.

And for Dongxin Semiconductor, the need for talent was equally huge. As long as Pingyang University opened this major, after graduation, Dongxin Semiconductor could basically take them all.

Similarly, if they didn't want to enter Dongling High-Tech, if they really learned the skills, then whether entering other domestic or overseas semiconductor factories, it basically wouldn't be a problem.

After all, the global semiconductor industry was dominated by Chinese people. Intel, IBM, or Texas Instruments, etc., were now all supported by Chinese engineers.

And in the future, the founders of Nvidia, AMD, TSMC, ATI graphics cards, Broadcom, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Walden International, etc., were all founded by Chinese people, or Chinese people served as chief engineers or chief designers.

It is no exaggeration to say that the global semiconductor industry is actually Chinese people fighting each other in different camps. Intel and Qualcomm were both saved by Chinese engineers at critical moments, helping them overcome key technologies and extending their lives.

The semiconductor industry is a highly concentrated industry where Chinese people fight each other. The old Huang of Nvidia and the CEO of AMD are even relatives...

"For Pingyang University to establish these two majors, Dongling High-Tech can bear all the funding, tuition, and scholarships.

Additionally, starting from the junior year, they can enter the project teams of Dongling High-Tech's Technical Department, Dongxin Semiconductor, and Shenzhou Storage to intern and research together. But the requirement is that after graduation, they need to sign an agreement with Dongxin Semiconductor for a certain number of years. They can only leave after the agreement expires!"

Li Dongling said to Shen Qingyuan. For this kind of "customized" major between Dongling High-Tech and Pingyang University, Li Dongling certainly couldn't let those who signed up for the major waste a few years of time, or follow textbooks to learn outdated theories and knowledge from ten or more years ago.

If they hadn't even performed a single experiment before graduation, and had to be apprentices for a few years after graduation before slowly entering the industry, wouldn't that be misleading the students? What could be faster than learning by doing?

As for letting novices join project teams, there would certainly be losses, but for the improvement of talent ability and the speed of cultivation, it would be much faster. This world is a huge grass-roots team; who didn't struggle and crawl their way up from a grass-roots team?

Making mistakes isn't a common occurrence? You need experience to play anything, let alone the Earth. Even for high-end space projects, there are people racing lunar rovers on it. Experience is accumulated slowly; it's impossible to generate experience without doing it. That's not scientific...

"Pingyang University has no problem with this. For these two majors, we will definitely do our best to build them into Pingyang University's best majors!"

Shen Qingyuan said directly. With Dongling High-Tech providing funding, plus the resources provided, and the internship in Dongxin Semiconductor's project teams, as long as those who chose the major weren't too incompetent, Pingyang University's two majors would definitely be able to make a name for themselves.

Li Dongling and Shen Qingyuan discussed some details and basically finalized the cooperation between the two sides. In the future, both sides would take what they needed. Dongling High-Tech would provide partial funding for Pingyang University and also give a portion of campus recruitment quotas to Pingyang University.

And Pingyang University would customize majors for Dongling High-Tech, cultivate talents for Dongling High-Tech, and jointly cooperate on research projects, etc.

The cooperation between Dongling High-Tech and Pingyang University was somewhat similar to the relationship between Silicon Valley and Stanford in America; both had close industry-university-research cooperation.

"Principal Shen, in the future, Pingyang University will also have to provide some talent for Focus Media!"

Seeing that Li Dongling and Shen Qingyuan had reached an agreement, Li Yan said to Shen Qingyuan with a smile.

Dongling High-Tech cooperated with Pingyang University and gave a portion of campus recruitment quotas to Pingyang University. As a company under Dongling High-Tech, Focus Media certainly had to show something.

Hearing this, Shen Qingyuan's smile became even brighter. "Of course, no problem!"

Now, work is gradually no longer being assigned. At this time, college students are still very valuable, and they don't have to worry about finding jobs. But wait until the future, when hundreds of thousands or millions of college students are added every year, the employment pressure will begin to grow.

If, in the future, Dongling High-Tech and its subsidiaries—Focus Media, Torch Group, Dongxin Semiconductor, Oriental Optoelectronics, including BYD and Hanxi New Materials in the industrial chain—all gave campus recruitment quotas to Pingyang University, then Pingyang University's employment rate would probably be frighteningly high, and the probability of entering big factories would be no worse than Tsinghua, Peking University, or Hanxi Jiaotong University...

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