Chapter 4070: Provincial Key Laboratory

This year, the funds invested by Linshan City in scientific research and development were almost double that of last year, and the appropriation for Linshan University increased significantly. Linshan University planned to establish one or two provincial key laboratories and a batch of municipal key laboratories within three years, preparing to make a big splash in scientific research and development.

This ambition of Linshan University was not without reason. Over the past few years, the funding allocated to them by Linshan City had not been small, and they had greatly improved their teaching and scientific research conditions. Xie Wenkua had also been committed to attracting talent over the past few years. Although top-tier talent could not be attracted, a batch of capable middle-aged and young talents had been attracted to the school to teach and conduct scientific research.

Especially after Professor Yang Yuanshen came to Linshan University to serve as honorary president, Linshan University became famous, and its domestic reputation was immediately elevated by at least one grade. Yang Yuanshen also used his influence to recruit some talent for Linshan University.

Coupled with the many high-tech companies in Linshan City, some high-tech talents served as visiting professors at Linshan University, often using their spare time to teach a few classes at Linshan University and participate in some of Linshan University's scientific research projects, which allowed Linshan University's scientific research strength to make rapid progress.

When Linshan University was upgraded to a university, it merged with the Linshan Coal Vocational and Technical College. Coupled with a batch of scientists such as Gu Sheng, the vice president of the Linshan Coal Chemical Group, serving as visiting professors at Linshan University, this gave them strong strength in coal chemical technology, which could be considered first-class in the country. This major was also their "fist" major.

In addition, high-tech enterprises such as Hanhai Technology, Xuanwu Technology, and Hengxing Microelectronics also had many technical personnel participating in the scientific research projects of relevant majors at Linshan University, which allowed Linshan University to also possess strong strength in computer software, communications, electronics, and other majors, far exceeding the universities of ordinary prefecture-level cities.

This year, Linshan City responded to the national call and significantly increased the funds invested in scientific research and development again. A large part of these funds was of course invested in Linshan University. Linshan University was currently the highest-level and strongest university in Linshan, so this tilt was also very normal.

It was of course impossible for Linshan University's current strength to establish any national laboratory; there were not many such laboratories in the country yet, and even if Xie Wenkua dreamed, he would not dream of this aspect.

Although there were two or three hundred national key laboratories in the country, Linshan University's strength could not reach this level for the time being, so Linshan University did not think about it.

However, Linshan University currently had the strength to build provincial key laboratories and municipal key laboratories. Of course, building this batch of key laboratories required a large amount of funds. Adding these laboratories together would require an investment of at least one or two hundred million.

In the past, this was of course a huge amount of funds, and Linshan University would not even dare to think about it. But now they had this strength. The Linshan Municipal Government allocated most of the funds, and in addition, these cooperative enterprises also sponsored a portion of the funds for them, which was also part of their cooperation agreement.

In the future, these cooperative enterprises would have the priority right to use the results they researched.

These days, Xie Wenkua was also in high spirits. He had never thought that more than two years ago he was just a small president of Linshan College, but now he had become the president of a comprehensive university with quite strong strength—Linshan University. Moreover, he managed over a hundred million in funds and could also build provincial key laboratories.

Therefore, Xie Wenkua worked very hard and often went to report his work to Weng Jingyao, the vice mayor in charge of culture, education, and health.

Weng Jingyao had also been in a very good mood recently. Ever since the new policy of the Central Government was introduced, the status of cultural, educational, and scientific work had risen straight up in local governments everywhere, and it accounted for a large proportion in Linshan City. Now, one of the work focuses of Linshan City was culture, education, and science, which was precisely the line he was in charge of.

Linshan City had significantly increased its investment in culture, education, and science. With money comes power, which also expanded Weng Jingyao's power significantly. Of course, he also knew Su Xinghui's temper, so he still kept his duty and did not dare to reach out indiscriminately.

But even so, his life was much better than before. Now, there were many more people coming to his door to report their work to him.

Linshan City increased its investment in science and education, and it was not just Linshan University that benefited. The funding for other schools, such as Linshan Vocational and Technical College, Linshan Medical College, and Linshan Normal College, also increased significantly. Even the several vocational high schools in Linshan City now had large investments.

Some time ago, China Central Television came to Linshan City to film a special documentary, which filmed the work and life of ordinary laborers and scientific researchers. This special documentary would be broadcast on this year's May 1st International Labor Day, and it would be broadcast during prime time, which indicated the country's emphasis on these ordinary laborers and scientific researchers.

When filming this special documentary, Weng Jingyao accompanied them throughout the whole process. Therefore, the broadcast of this special documentary would also be one of his major political achievements. This special documentary had a very great effect on the publicity of Linshan.

All these changes made Weng Jingyao feel comfortable. He truly felt the benefits of working under Su Xinghui, this young mayor. Su Xinghui was capable and could develop Linshan's economy with immediate effect, which made the rice in the pot more, and everyone could naturally eat their fill.

Weng Jingyao recalled the scene of the municipal government in the past and felt it was a bit funny. Whenever a mayor's office meeting was held, those dignified mayors would argue at the meeting like dividing pork, wanting to fight for more funds for their own lines. Linshan at that time was really too poor.

The current mayor's office meeting was much more harmonious. Generally, when everyone needed a sum of funds, as long as it was a reasonable reason and truly needed, Su Xinghui would make a decision on the spot most of the time and let Fan Yichun allocate it, which made these vice mayors feel very comfortable. Su Xinghui's work style was much more straightforward than the previous mayor.

This was not just a question of money, but also a question of personality. Many leading cadres, even if they had money in their hands, would still be pretentious, as if they couldn't show their authority without doing so. But Su Xinghui never pretended anything. He would allocate what he could, and he would state clearly what he couldn't.

Such a personality instead made Su Xinghui more respected by the vice mayors. Even if their appropriation requests were rejected, the vice mayors would not be annoyed, because Su Xinghui would state the reasons clearly, and they were all very sufficient reasons. He would absolutely not reject others for some inexplicable reasons.

Weng Jingyao was now convinced by Su Xinghui. No matter what, he would follow this young mayor. Working with him was comfortable.

This day, Weng Jingyao went to report his work to Su Xinghui again. During this period, the number of times he reported his work to Su Xinghui also increased significantly, because Weng Jingyao actually didn't understand the trends in science and technology, so he also needed to constantly learn while in charge of science and education work. And Su Xinghui knew much more about this aspect than he did.

Weng Jingyao arrived at Su Xinghui's office and reported some recent work to him. The focus of recent work was on scientific research, which was work that Su Xinghui was very concerned about. This related to the foundation of Linshan City and the potential for future development. If there were no major breakthroughs in this aspect, the upper limit of Linshan City in the future would be just like this.

Entering Su Xinghui's office, Su Xinghui was reviewing a document. He said without raising his head, "Old Weng, sit."

Weng Jingyao sat down properly. He sat upright and looked straight ahead. In front of Su Xinghui, he didn't dare to have any disrespectful actions at all. Although Su Xinghui always let him be casual, he still did so. Over time, Su Xinghui stopped saying anything.

Ding Qingyong poured a cup of tea for Weng Jingyao. Su Xinghui finished reviewing the document and handed it to Ding Qingyong, and Ding Qingyong went out. Su Xinghui said to Weng Jingyao, "Old Weng, I heard that the provincial key laboratory for coal chemicals at Linshan University is progressing very smoothly?"

This provincial key laboratory for coal chemicals at Linshan University was built in cooperation with the Linshan Coal Chemical Technology Group. The initial investment was tens of millions, and it would continue to be invested in later. Such a large investment amount was mainly because the investment in instruments and equipment was too expensive.

This provincial key laboratory was highly valued by Su Xinghui because Linshan's coal resources were rich, so the coal chemical technology strength here was also very strong. After Linshan University merged with Linshan Coal Vocational and Technical College, their technology in coal chemicals could rank at the country's advanced level, and it was undoubtedly the best in Yanbei Province.

If this provincial key laboratory was built well and produced a few heavy-hitting results, it would have a very great effect on the improvement of Linshan University's ranking. Coupled with the completion of several other provincial and municipal key laboratories at Linshan University, this could make Linshan University's ranking advance by leaps and bounds.