Chapter 248 Borrowing the East Wind
In the past few years, domestic universities and various research and development units have been in the most short supply of funds. Except for universities in Yanjing and Shanghai, funds are still relatively sufficient, but they also use self-financed funds. Use this method to supplement funds.
This is true for the universities in these two places. You can imagine the kind of life most universities and R&D institutions in other places have.
Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs, and those who hold scalpels are not as good as those who hold razors. Although these words are said jokingly, they also speak to some extent about the academic-related practitioners in recent years. , life was not very good.
Starting from next year, the road to self-financing students will begin to be blocked. The benefits of the previous universities, including distribution, free tuition and living expenses, have also been terminated, and the era of self-financed universities has begun. .
The arrival of the era of self-funded college is a kind of adjustment for both colleges and universities, and for those who go to college. Now many people are worried.
However, not all universities are like this. For example, Hanxi Jiaotong University has been doing quite well in recent years. The Zhixing Foundation donates a fund to Hanxi Jiaotong University every year. The most important thing is Hanxi Jiaotong University. The emergence of joint laboratories.
Relying on the cooperation with the Hanxi Joint Laboratory, Hanxi Jiaotong University has gained considerable profits, especially behind the explosive sales of electronic pet machines, Shenzhou digital cordless phones, and PHS, many hospitals in Hanxi Departments and professors all have personnel participating in research and development.
Although at the time of the original agreement, the patents, technologies, and products developed by the Hanxi Joint Laboratory belonged to Dongling Hi-Tech.
However, Dongling Hi-tech did not cheat Hanxi Jiaotong University. As long as the research and development results are achieved, Hanxi Jiaotong University will be given a share of the profits.
In the first half of this year alone, in the Hanxi Joint Laboratory of Hanxi Jiaotong University, due to the hot sales of Shenzhou digital cordless phones and PHS, in addition to the personnel involved in R&D receiving generous returns, Hanxi Jiaotong University also received more than two The revenue share of RMB 200 million serves as R&D funding for Hanxi Jiaotong University!
This share in the first half of the year, based on last year’s research and development funding investment by major domestic universities, was second only to several prestigious universities such as Huaqing University, Peking University, Shanghai Communications, Fudan University, and Qiantang University. You must know Huaqing's R&D funding last year was only over 400 million.
With a horizontal comparison, you will know how Hanxi Jiaotong University is doing today, and you can also understand the significance of the emergence of Dongling Hi-Tech and Hanxi Joint Laboratory to Hanxi Jiaotong University in terms of funding alone. , Hanxi Jiaotong University’s current R&D funding ranks among the top among domestic universities.
We can also know that there are colleges and universities in provincial capitals in Hanxi Province. When looking at Hanxi Jiaotong University, their eyes are probably a little red.
Of course, compared with the annual funding received by top foreign universities such as Harvard and Stanford, as well as the benefits provided to scientific researchers, whether it is Hanxi Jiaotong University or Huaqing University, it is far inferior. It cannot be changed in a day.
In the office of the dean of the Mining Department of NPU in Hanxi Province, many leaders of NPU were gathered here. The huge amount of money came suddenly and without any precaution.
“The Zhixing Foundation has always been close to Hanxi Jiaotong University, so why did it suddenly come to our NPU?!” A school leader of NPU couldn’t help but say.
Zhan Zhikai, who is in charge of the finance of NPU, was not happy when he heard this. Look how gray his hair has become in recent years. Before he was in charge of the big money bag of NPU, he had black hair. In recent years, he has become really white. Worrying about money makes you grow old.
Everyone in the NPU wanted to get money from him. The young teacher complained that his salary was not as much as the one who set up a stall at the school entrance. He clamored for a salary increase. The old professor asked He wants research and development funds, and he also has to provide subsidies for students from poor families.
Now, the God of Wealth has finally arrived, and the people at NPU are still suspicious. The money sent to him by the Zhixing Foundation means that even if the King of Heaven comes, he has to keep it.
Zhan Zhikai also envies Hanxi Jiaotong University. He also wants to provide subsidies to students at NPU. However, Hanxi Jiaotong University can take more than 200 million R&D funds from the joint laboratory in half a year and provide three meals a day to the entire Hanxi Jiaotong University students. Canteen subsidies, where will he get the money to subsidize them? The food prices at Hanxi Jiaotong University are now the best and cheapest in the entire Hanxi Province. This is based on the fact that the subsidies provided by Hanxi Jiaotong University are sufficient. Many students from foreign schools have come to Hanxi Jiaotong University. Eat some food in the cafeteria of Xi'an Jiaotong University and replenish your appetite.
There is no harm without comparison. Compare the treatment provided by Hanxi Jiaotong University to teachers and students. It is cheap and well-oiled meals, and it is planning to build a new computer building. New staff dormitories, new student dormitories, universities in Hanxi Province are often criticized, and Zhan Zhikai is also scolded for being stingy.
“What is wrong with our Western Polytechnic University? Our mining department is one of the top five majors in the country and is also well-known internationally. Why can’t we accept the donation from the Zhixing Foundation?!”
Zhan Zhikai patted the table and said, although the money was donated to the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, the entire NPU is short of funds. Part of this donation will be reserved for the Department of Mining and Metallurgy, but the rest will be used elsewhere. There is no way around it.
Zou Shiyan, who was sitting in his office, looked at the noisy office that was about to turn into a vegetable market. He was also very worried. Nowadays, the mining and metallurgy department is not a popular major. The demand for steel is strong. There is naturally a lot of demand for related practitioners. Every unit has want.
But it is not an unpopular major, but it does not mean that it has become a popular major. The Zhixing Foundation suddenly came to the door and donated tens of millions, which is equivalent to the total R&D funding received by NPU this year. One eighth!
Not only did this shock the Mining and Metallurgical Department, but also the entire NPU.
After coughing, Zou Shiyan said to Zhan Zhikai and other school leaders, "I think it would be better to call Lao Han from Hanxi Jiaotong University. He is the dean of the Radio School of Hanxi Jiaotong University. I am familiar with the Zhixing Foundation and I 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 made such a large donation. It was obvious that they had something to ask for. Although it was a donation, the matter could not be accomplished. Zhixing The foundation can't do anything, but it can be difficult to deal with the other two parties.
If possible, why don't NPU not want to be like Hanxi Jiaotong University and become a partner institution of the joint laboratory, and jointly develop projects with Donglin Hi-Tech? Hanxi Jiaotong University is a living example of developing products for Dongling Hi-Tech, and can get a lot of funding!
In Hanxi Jiaotong University, Han Qianyi, who was sitting in his dean's office and sipping tea, heard the phone ringing on the table. He put down his teacup leisurely and smiled at Liu Youguo sitting opposite, " Make a bet, this call is from Western Polytechnic University!"
"I'm not interested in making any bets with you!"
Liu Youguo didn't answer at all and looked at the book in his hand. An application for restructuring and changing careers in radio technology. The radio major is now the most popular major at Hanxi Jiaotong University.
But now, radio technology can no longer keep up with the times, especially the newly emerging majors in computers, mobile phones, communications, etc., so Han Qianyi decided to reorganize the radio major of Hanxi Jiaotong University into information and communications engineering Academy.
This does not mean that just changing the name is enough. It is necessary to recruit more professional teachers, purchase professional teaching equipment, compile more tutorials, and set up more majors. Naturally, more students will be recruited, and the cost will be considerable. It's not a small amount, but the current radio technology major is not short of money and has sufficient funds to support Han Qianyi in doing this.
Han Qianyi is not annoyed at all by Liu Youguo’s attitude. Liu Youguo is the God of Wealth in his department and even Hanxi Jiaotong University. The team he leads brings huge R&D funds to Hanxi Jiaotong University every year. In addition, he is also the teacher of Li Dongling, Chen Tao and others, so even if he walks sideways in Hanxi Jiaotong University, there will probably be people paving the way for him.
“It’s cheaper at NPU!” Before picking up the phone, Han Qianyi also muttered, “There’s nothing I can do about it. Who knows that NPU has produced talented people like academicians!”
After talking to Han Qianyi on the phone, Zou Shiyan, Zhan Zhikai and other people from NPU could not help but feel refreshed when they found out what the Zhixing Foundation was about.
As long as it can invite academicians to join the carbon fiber fishing rod laboratory, then NPU will have the opportunity to get the same treatment as Hanxi Jiaotong University at Dongling High-Tech, and then NPU will accept a wave of A wave of people began to run to Yanjing, and they persuaded academicians to come out.
Half a month later, Hanxi Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Harbin Institute of Technology successively announced that they would join the Continental Fishing Gear R&D Center and began to officially develop carbon fiber fishing rods. Later, Academician Shi, the first person in the country to make materials, joined the Continental Fishing Gear R&D Center as a R&D consultant. !
(End of this chapter)