Chapter 4099

A prize of 10 million for a single category—what kind of concept was this? For many scientists, this was equivalent to their salary income for decades or even a hundred years. This temptation could not be called small, and after winning this award, they would surely gain both fame and fortune.

Hanhai Technology stated that if scientists who won the Hanhai Award were willing to work at the Hanhai Research Institute, the Hanhai Research Institute would provide the best conditions, the top-tier scientific research environment in the country, the highest salaries, and unlimited research funding.

Such conditions were undoubtedly tempting. Money was not the most important thing, but a top-tier scientific research environment and treatment that could allow the whole family to live without worry were things that every scientist devoted to research would yearn for.

The six awards set up by the Hanhai Award were all in basic science, not applied science, and the prize money was set so high, which showed Hanhai Technology's ambition. Perhaps their goal was to one day become a science award with influence like the Nobel Prize.

Of course, the scope of the Hanhai Award was not as wide as the Nobel Prize; it was only aimed at Chinese scientists worldwide and foreign experts working in China. However, who could say for sure that the Hanhai Award could not expand its scope in the future to include all scientists worldwide?

By that time, it would surely be the time when the Hanhai Award's influence would expand rapidly.

Hanhai Technology established the Hanhai Award to respond to the spirit of the Central Committee, to vigorously develop science and technology, and to improve the status and treatment of scientific research personnel. At the same time, it was also to further expand Hanhai Technology's influence and let Hanhai Technology further consolidate its position as the best technology company in the world.

This matter was a major event with far-reaching influence for Hanhai Technology, for China, and even for the world.

This matter also put Hanhai Technology on the front page of major media outlets around the world once again, which was equivalent to invisibly helping Hanhai Technology and the Hanhai Award advertise.

Although the scope of the Hanhai Award was not as wide as the Nobel Prize, it included Chinese scientists worldwide and foreign experts working in China, which was also a quite extensive scope.

Currently, there were quite a large number of Chinese scientists working around the world. Just in the United States, there were at least hundreds of thousands of Chinese scientists, and among them, a considerable number were top scientific talents.

A large portion of these Chinese scientists working abroad were actually born and raised in China and had an educational background in China. They often went abroad to study for master's and doctoral degrees after graduating from universities in China, and then stayed abroad to continue their scientific research work, with most of them acquiring foreign citizenship.

Since China did not recognize dual citizenship, these people acquiring foreign citizenship was equivalent to giving up their Chinese citizenship. This phenomenon of brain drain was very serious.

The main reason for this phenomenon was that the scientific research environment in China could not compare with that abroad, and the gap was quite large, especially for many experimental devices, which could not be bought at all due to foreign embargoes.

Coupled with the poor atmosphere in many domestic scientific research institutions, such as seniority, nepotism, and even academic fraud, these phenomena emerged one after another, which made many scientists unwilling to engage in scientific research work in China.

In fact, many talented young scientists might not be able to get ahead in domestic research institutions even after working for decades, and their talent and gifts were wasted on day-to-day power struggles.

Therefore, many talented and gifted scientific research personnel stayed abroad and engaged in scientific research work in foreign research institutions with better research environments.

Now, many research institutions, including those in the United States, had many top scientists who were Chinese. It was just a pity that the vast majority of these Chinese were already foreign nationals, and the scientific research achievements they made belonged to foreign countries.

Although there was a saying that science had no borders, scientists did. The scientific research achievements made by these scientists belonged to foreign countries, which was a huge loss for China.

Just think, if the scientific research achievements made by these Chinese scientists could belong to China, then China's current technical level would also be one of the leading countries in the world. Unfortunately, this matter could only be thought about, because the citizenship of those Chinese scientists was not China. ===== CHAPTER 4101 =====