Chapter 175 Stunning Design

What the other party has raised is almost a global problem, and its existence is closely related to the current situation in all aspects of China.

There are many factors that have led to this situation.

Similar problems exist not only in China, but also in America. Everyone has to apply for a limited number of tenures, and as academic qualifications depreciate, it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain tenure.

If you want to apply for tenure, you either need a guarantee from a big shot. For the big shots here, it’s not enough to just have achievements, you also need to have enough influence; or you need to have good enough results.

It is difficult to publish papers on difficult topics when you are young.

On the contrary, it is easier to achieve success by posting enough articles and reach the peak of your life.

For this reason, it is particularly important to choose a supervisor during the doctoral stage. The supervisor's academic taste largely determines your future development trajectory.

A supervisor can help you choose a good direction and select a suitable topic for you, so that you can have impressive results during your doctoral studies. After you graduate with a doctorate, you can continue to explore this direction, which guarantees both the lower and upper limits.

However, it is extremely unlikely to meet such a mentor.

Chen Yuanguang quickly filtered the current situation in his mind. He knew that the boss's questions were a test, and doing well might bring him unexpected gains.

To avoid this problem, it is best to use artificial intelligence to check.

Because even if he had the future as a reference, it would be impossible for him to understand whether what each scholar did was good or bad.

No one can do this in the real world.

Why is it impossible to do so even with the future as a reference?

Because you can know whether this direction has a future, but you don’t know how well it will perform, or maybe this direction will be replaced by a more promising direction in the future, but it still has considerable value in the development process.

For example, if humans really get rid of gasoline cars in the future and replace them with electric cars, gasoline car technology will still have great value to humans in 1950.

Therefore, Chen Yuanguang's solution to this is:
“It’s been very difficult to be honest.

At present, there is a lack of solutions that can fundamentally solve this problem. My suggestion is to solve the housing problem for young scholars.

This can, to a certain extent, give everyone more patience and energy to do some in-depth and tasteful topics.”

Chen Yuanguang went on to say: “I have just thought of many solutions, such as working on some major issues and providing greater support to scholars working on these major issues.

Another approach is to organize an expert review and defense session to allow scholars to talk about their interim results.

These methods all have problems to varying degrees.

The first is who decides what are major issues and who decides which scholars are qualified to work on these issues. These seem to be unsolvable obstacles at present.

The latter is similar to what you said about selecting filial and honest people. If experts have too much power, the current emerging problem of academic cliques will be made even more serious.

Therefore, I think it would be better to keep it simple and provide housing to young scholars after they are employed, provide more staffing to universities, and provide housing to young scholars when they are employed, even if they are just lecturers.

Except that it cannot be traded, it is exactly the same as other rights.

As the domestic real estate industry has developed to this day, the last thing it lacks is houses. Solving the housing cost problem will solve the biggest problem for young scholars.

The combination of staffing and housing can fundamentally alleviate everyone's living pressure, giving everyone the motivation, time and energy to do more in-depth and interesting things."

Chen Yuanguang didn’t finish his words: “This approach will not add much to the overall burden on our country.

Infrastructure itself has come to this point today, and the marginal effect is becoming more and more obvious. This kind of infrastructure can drive consumption to a certain extent.”

Chen Yuanguang's proposal has two points: increase the staffing level, but not too aggressively, and solve the housing problem.

The bigwigs present all felt that Chen Yuanguang was a good person, his proposal was very down-to-earth, and he took many aspects into consideration, including the country's financial affordability, the marginal effects of infrastructure, etc.

Under this plan, local interests will be lost and the country will benefit.

Why do I say this? Because land is no longer selling in most places now, and young university teachers are a good group of leeks, who have the ability and willingness to take over the real estate market.

Now if we provide them with housing, there will be fewer people who will take over local real estate.

"Yuanguang, in a sense, is to increase the income of university teachers, to meet their basic needs through flooding, and then let them pursue higher-level needs."

Another boss said: “Yuan Guang’s approach reminded me of the practical application of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in the real world.

After helping young scholars meet their low-level needs, they will spontaneously pursue higher-level needs.”

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "That's right, under the flood, there will always be some people who have the patience, willingness and motivation to achieve more results.

Increasing the staffing will increase the base number, while solving the housing problem will increase the probability of this group of people."

No one asked whether this approach was too biased towards young scholars, but Chen Yuanguang took the initiative to explain:

“As for whether the outside world would think that this approach is too biased towards young scholars, I think this can also be viewed from several aspects.

First, our country has always had a bias towards scholars in terms of social status. Before, their social status was enough, but the economic support was not enough. Now, the economic support has been compensated, and there is no housing trading right. This is not an exaggeration.

Secondly, it also promotes the atmosphere of civilian scientific research and allows more people to devote themselves to science. Even if they cannot become scientists in the end, they can become engineers and provide support for the upgrading and transformation of China's manufacturing industry.

Thirdly, those people who were able to get a job at a university have made great efforts themselves, and giving them corresponding treatment can make them less anxious.

Anxious to turn past efforts into real-world gains.

If I were these people, I would have spent more than ten years studying hard and finally completed my postdoctoral studies. I only received a salary of about 200,000 yuan in the last year, and I would have to be promoted or leave after three years of evaluation. I think it would be difficult for me to calm down and do something truly valuable.

Both spamming and academic fraud are produced in this context.”

The boss who asked the question nodded, neither saying yes nor no: "We will study your plan carefully."

Seeing that Chen Yuanguang spoke so down-to-earth, everyone began to ask questions enthusiastically.

"Yuan Guang, you mentioned earlier that we cooperate with other countries to control key technologies.

Take the lithography machine you just mentioned, for example, we worked with Nikon to create a lithography machine that is suitable for topological semimetals, and then started mass production. Everything was going well, but at this point, America banned Nikon from cooperating with us, so did we turn around and cooperate with domestic companies?
Without changing the current situation, how can we avoid the dilemma I just mentioned before companies in developed countries can no longer say no to America's orders? "

Chen Yuanguang felt that each of them was more cunning than the other.

“I think this question can be discussed from several aspects. One is that cooperation with developed countries is to explore the boundaries of technology as much as possible.

By cooperating with Nikon, we can achieve a precision of 5nm, but this does not mean that we will give up cooperation with Shenhai Microelectronics.

We will also cooperate with Shenhai Microelectronics to continue to promote the research and development of 28nm domestic lithography machines.

It's like walking on two legs.

Our premise is that if foreign countries do not cooperate with us, their losses will certainly be greater than ours.

If we follow this principle, we will definitely not suffer any loss.

Let’s take our cooperation with Nikon as an example. The topological semimetal lithography machines manufactured by Nikon can only be sold to us for use.

Because China is the only country in the world that can mass-produce topological semi-metallic sheets, we are stuck at the raw material end. If Nikon does not cooperate with us, their technology will be worthless.

So I said that for key technologies, the companies or institutions that lead the research and development of key technologies must fully evaluate whether the technology can be mastered by their cooperating foreign manufacturers.

For example, for perovskite batteries, we only sell the batteries themselves to overseas customers, not the battery technology.”

According to Chen Yuanguang's logic, this is what should be done, but in reality there are many things that he cannot understand.

The big brother is trying every means to slow down the development of the second brother, but the second brother has no similar strategy towards its direct competitors and is as generous as possible in exporting some key technologies.

The most typical case is that China transferred a lot of technology to India, including some key technologies.

We even hold technology transfer, collaborative innovation and investment conferences with India every year, and many manufacturing-related technologies have been sold to India.

The reason why Chen Yuanguang was so impressed was that after the breakthrough in perovskite battery technology, Asan hoped that China could transfer the technology to them for free on the grounds of the climate crisis.

"Climate-friendly technologies should be considered global public goods. The transfer of these technologies from developed to developing countries should be promoted, and their application in developing countries at affordable prices should be promoted," Asan reiterated at the climate-related conference in Copenhagen.

When Lin Jia talked about this with Chen Yuanguang, she was full of disdain, wondering how Asan could have the nerve to do that. Later, she talked about this matter with Chen Yuanguang again, saying that the reason why Asan thought that China would transfer technology was because China had no vigilance at all when it came to technology transfer.

Therefore, it will give the Indians the illusion that everything can be discussed.

Back at the scene in Yanjing, after Chen Yuanguang answered, the bosses all understood.

Chen Yuanguang went on to say: "This is actually an open conspiracy.

The more aggressive the American reaction, the better.”

The big guys immediately became interested, "Yuan Guang, come on, tell us in detail."

Chen Yuanguang said: "It's very simple logic.

Everyone knows that the more advanced the technology, the greater the profit. The reason why developed countries can enjoy a rich material life with very little working time is that the mastery of high-end technology is an important factor.

Once we are able to achieve breakthroughs in key technologies and show willingness to cooperate, companies in developed countries will surely come to cooperate with us.

It's fine for America to stop it, but can they stop these companies from making money? Obviously not.

Nikon's cooperation with us will bring in at least several hundred million dollars in profits every year. If America doesn't allow them to do it, will they stop doing it?

Even if Nikon doesn't cooperate with us, what about other companies? The most subtle point is that the companies that cooperated with us earlier could not continue to cooperate with us due to restrictions, while the companies that cooperated with us later would take the initiative to move their R&D and manufacturing to China to circumvent the restrictions.

Our cooperation with Nikon was blocked. The next time Canon cooperates with us, they will no longer think about placing the manufacturing and R&D of some key components locally, but will simply move them all to China.

After moving to China, even if they are restricted, they can continue to cooperate with us by establishing other companies.

Therefore, the more they try to stop us, the more foreign companies that cooperate with us will move their most critical and core R&D and manufacturing to China.

Even capitalists will sell noose to those who are about to hang them, let alone this kind of cooperation is a win-win situation and will not hang them.

As for the hanged country on which they parasitize, will the capitalists care? "

After Chen Yuanguang finished speaking, a certain big shot applauded, and then the others followed suit.

This was the second round of applause after the lecture.

“Very good, Yuan Guang, although you are several decades younger than the rest of us, you are an absolute master in strategic thinking.

This is something we hadn’t thought of before.”

It’s not that they couldn’t think of it, but before Chen Yuanguang, China did not have the capital to implement such a strategy. If you can’t come up with anything to attract foreign companies, how can you cooperate with them?

Now I can play this trick because I have more cards in my hand, and as Chen Yuanguang has more and more cards, I can play this trick.

"America can restrict us. In the past, they were our teachers, and we crossed the river by feeling the stones. In the future, they will be our shepherds, driving the sheep to China.

Yuanguang’s words gave us a lot of new ideas. In the process of doing some specific work, we should think more and combine theory with research.

The situation is so complicated now. I know that everyone has a lot of work to do, but you still cannot give up learning even with so much work. You must persist in learning and make learning a lifelong process.

Only by combining theory with practice can we do our work well. "

After class, Chen Yuanguang was bored in the lounge and waited for Director Zhao to see him off.

He thought, if he shot a video on Douyin, it would definitely become a huge hit. If his system could be converted into black technology through shocking levels, it would definitely take off and would be much more powerful than the current golden finger.

Chen Yuanguang complained in his heart that if he had that thing, he wouldn't have to try every possible way to gain more support.

Director Zhao came over and whispered, "Yuan Guang, you did a good job today. The boss wants to have lunch with you. You can eat first before leaving."

(End of this chapter)