Rebirth: The Financial Giant

In the afternoon, when the celebration was over, Lu Ming remained at the headquarters of the foundation.

In a conference room, members of the three major departments of the Foundation's Project Review Committee, Project Review Committee, and Project Execution Department were present, as was Secretary-General Lou Yiyun.

Lu Ming looked at the crowd and said, "For the Science and People's Livelihood Fund, how to put the money in the hands is always the biggest problem. I don't think the traditional way will work, and the money will not fall into the hands of real people. find a new way out.”

At this time, Song Xiuyuan, the person in charge of the project review committee, immediately said: "I agree with the chairman very much. How did our academicians choose? It is recommended by his unit, and it is impossible for scientists who offend others to a large extent. Elected, so it's all about pulling relationships."

Song Xiuyuan went on to say: "Besides, academicians are linked to the treatment of colleges and universities, so colleges and universities have to engage in transactions, but the transactions are not money, but indirect money, such as funding from organizations like our foundation. Kim, the biggest reason for the current academic malpractice is the linking of funding to the school with scientific credibility."

Song Xiuyuan: "This has resulted in the current allocation of scientific research resources being monopolized by prestigious universities. Those who do not innovate get the most funding. I won't say which universities are well-known, but some universities that engage in independent innovation get the funding resources. The allocation is the least, the reason is that it is distributed according to the level, what level of treatment do you have, what level of treatment does he have, and all your thoughts are spent on robbing ratings and titles, how can there be any energy to do real research?"

Lu Ming covered his mouth with one hand and nodded involuntarily, but did not speak.

Song Xiuyuan immediately said: "Chairman, I don't think the foundation's funds should be allocated to institutions, but to individuals. For example, we give an annual quota to those scholars who are really in the forefront of the field."

Hearing this, Lu Ming said concisely: "Go on."

Song Xiuyuan: "My foundation needs to refer to the practices of Europeans and Americans in this regard, such as the NSF Foundation of the Magnesium. How is their money allocated? It is not for schools and other institutions, but for people, so you can see Universities in Magnesium are rushing to poach people, and a university poached a heavyweight scientist to their school, and the funding for this scientist goes to the university.”

Song Xiuyuan: "For example, my foundation gives a scientist a subsidy of 100 million yuan per year. If the University of Science and Technology poachs the scientist, the 100 million yuan will go to the University of Science and Technology. If the Western University of Technology has poached, the subsidy will go to the Western University of Technology. Only in this way can we truly value and respect talents, which is very important.”

Scientific research resources and scientific research resources are money in the final analysis. The Science and People's Livelihood Fund is rich and super rich, so it has the right to distribute rich scientific research resources. Now there are more than 160 billion on the books, and there will be more in the future.

When the funding is anchored to a scientist, the school or institution must pay attention to it if you don’t pay attention to him, because if you don’t pay attention to him, he will be poached, and the funding of the Science and People’s Livelihood Foundation will follow him. In the end, both people and money were empty.

For those scholars who don't love or are good at relationships and are really focused on learning, the Science and People's Livelihood Foundation will give him a certain amount of funding. If he has scientific research resources, he doesn't need to engage in relationships, and where he is The most important institutions must also attach importance to him, and truly value and respect talents.

At this time, Song Xiuyuan said hesitantly, "It's just that we have offended a large number of people. Those who rely on their connections to monopolize relevant resources must not hate us."

Hearing this, Lu Ming said lightly: "I don't dare to offend anyone easily now, there are a large number of people who dare not offend me, and I dare to offend a large number of people. Don't even think about doing it, as long as you don't offend everyone."

Song Xiuyuan was at a loss for words. Lu Ming was now able to earn astronomical amounts of money every year for social security pensions and Guo Jia's team, and he was also able to harvest wealth from overseas capital markets. No one dared to touch him.

Speaking of power, Lu Ming has now become a powerful force in his own right.

At the end, Lu Ming immediately made a final decision: "That's it, the foundation's funding is anchored in people to follow people, and the funding is only anchored in leading academic leaders who are at the forefront of a field, not We don’t give money to the leaders in the field. For example, if I want to invest in materials science, find out who the top three competitors in this field are, we will fund him, and the ones outside the top three don’t need to be considered.”

Lu Ming firmly believes that breakthroughs in basic scientific research can only follow the elite route, because the truth is in the hands of a few people, and the breakthrough from 0 to 1 in the field of cutting-edge science by human sea tactics has proved unworkable.

"As soon as possible, you will formulate a solution for the amount of funding in each area, and then submit it to the council."

Lou Yiyun nodded when he heard this: "Understood."

The scale of funding required by different academic fields is different. For example, mathematics and logic do not use much funding, while fields such as physics and astronomy require huge funds. Get the budget of a top astronomical observatory. is in billions.

At this time, a member of the project review committee who attended the meeting turned over the materials and reported: "At present, the foundation has noted that the basic science fields include physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy and earth sciences."

After speaking, he handed the materials to Lu Ming, who opened the overview.

Five categories of subdivisions.

Physics includes particle physics, condensed matter physics, optics, field theory, quantum mechanics, etc.; chemistry includes inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, structural chemistry, polymer chemistry, etc.; biology includes botany, animality, cells Biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, etc.; astronomy includes astronomy, radio astronomy, origin of the universe, etc.; earth disciplines include atmospheric physics, geodesy, hydrology, oceanography, land science, space science, etc. .

Lu Ming closed the materials and nodded with satisfaction, all of which were all subdivisions of basic science.

The purpose of the Science and People's Livelihood Fund is to find some academic leaders in these sub-fields, and confirm them through the project review committee and the project review committee. At that time, the foundation will allocate the corresponding funding to them for basic research.

Once the money is allocated, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t matter. The foundation must have the project executive layer to track the progress and establish a traceability mechanism. The foundation needs to know where and when each money is spent, and the finance and taxation departments must There is a reconciliation.

Lu Ming put the materials aside and said, "Then publish these subject areas that have been determined to be funded."

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After the meeting, Lu Ming left the headquarters of the foundation, and here he will also publicly disclose the basic scientific research areas to be funded and the funding rules of the foundation. Can reach 1.5 billion yuan.

On the same day, it caused an uproar in the academic world and major universities. A large number of people could not sit still. Some people were very excited, and some people were super upset.

The funding for a single project can reach 1.5 billion yuan. In the securities market, perhaps 1.5 billion yuan of funds thrown into a listed company like Tiansheng Holdings can only increase by three or five points.

But this does not mean that 1.5 billion is a small number. I don’t know how many universities in China spend only a few hundred million in total scientific research funding in a year. When this matter comes out, it is no wonder that the academic world and major schools can’t sit still. .

On the same day, many universities began to pay attention to where the leaders in the field of basic science disclosed by the Science and People's Livelihood Foundation were, and began to pay attention to them. First, they looked at whether their own schools had them, and then looked at the schools if they didn't. Human thoughts arise spontaneously.

In universities with tight scientific research funds, it is even more important. As long as people can be recruited into their own schools, they can get a huge amount of funding from the Science and People's Livelihood Foundation.

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