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Chapter 708 The Opportunity to Become a Billionaire

Friday.

Xu Qingzhou walked towards the classroom with his lesson plan in hand. Since winning the Nobel Prize, the next two classes had been packed with students, and this was the third class.

"Professor Xu, may I take a photo with you?"

A girl ran over timidly.

"can."

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the classroom door, someone pulled him aside to take a group photo.

When the bell rang, Xu Qingzhou finally managed to shake off the people taking photos at the door, but upon entering the classroom and looking at the dense crowd, he couldn't help but feel somewhat helpless.

Good news: There are far fewer people than last week.

Bad news: The aisle is still crowded.

In fact, not all of these people are necessarily interested in the Riemann Hypothesis.

More likely, it's about him, the Nobel laureate.

For the first few minutes, I felt a sense of awe and wonder, but after 5 minutes my head started to spin, and after 10 minutes it was like listening to gibberish.

Some people secretly take a photo and check in; those with perseverance can even stay until the end of get out of class, but a significant number of people leave after checking in.

Schools also have a hard time managing this. University classrooms emphasize freedom, and they can't set up barriers or have special security checks at the classroom door. They can only repeatedly appeal: educational resources are limited, please attend classes reasonably.

The effect is rather limited.

"It'll be fine once the hype dies down."

Xu Qingzhou thought to himself, looked around, and asked, "Classmates, is anyone leaving?"

There was a rustling sound coming from the classroom, and several people who had finished taking photos and checking in went out through the back door with their bodies bent over.

"Time is running out."

Xu Qingzhou was in class, while Song Yao was visiting Li Daiyue at the School of Economics. The negotiations between the United States, Japan, and South Korea had come to an end, with the conditions basically the same as those in Europe. The only difference was that both sides had lifted some of the sanctions imposed during this period.

The current contracts have already brought Zero Point Technology $15 billion in revenue.

She still needed to consult Li Daiyue about the specific operational issues to follow.

Li Daiyue has studied economics for decades and can pinpoint many problems incisively.

At 4 PM.

Li Daiyue went to a meeting with several professors to discuss a new project. Since Song Yao had nothing to do, she simply helped Han Shiyi organize the documents.

"Junior, haven't you and Xu Qingzhou considered taking Zero Point Technology public? With your current size, you'll instantly become billionaires after going public."

Han Shiyi suddenly asked curiously.

The market expects that the patent package on lithium dendrites and shuttle effect will bring at least 1000 billion yuan in revenue to Zero Point Technology, but there is a prerequisite - within 10 years.

Currently, including patent fees from various companies, Zero Point Technology's working capital is only around 80 billion yuan.

Furthermore, Zero Point Technology, the research institute, and the stellarator project at Southwest Jiaotong University...
They really do spend money like water.

Going public allows companies to raise huge sums of money through an IPO, which can be used for technology research and development, capacity expansion, or market development.

Especially for high-quality technology companies like Zero Point Technology, Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao, as the leaders, can even experience hundreds of times the growth.

"Not going public."

Song Yao shook her head and said, "We have sufficient cash flow, so we can develop even without external financing."

Yes, their net worth will indeed increase many times over after going public, but the downsides are also obvious. Going public means being accountable to shareholders, and the founders' voting rights decrease by more than 30%. They don't want to have to hold a shareholders' meeting to get all shareholders' approval before making a decision, or even have their proposals rejected by minority shareholders.

Raising funds or seeking valuations in exchange for capital, which could weaken one's control, is ultimately counterproductive.

There are many companies in China that insist on not going public. For example, Huawei and DJI refuse to go public in order to maintain their technological independence because of their leading technology and sufficient funds.

"That's true, there are too many troubles after going public."

Han Shiyi nodded in agreement. As an advisor to Zero Point Technology, Li Daiyue was Professor Li's deputy and was quite familiar with the company's situation.

In addition to its previous patent portfolio on superconducting thin films, lithium dendrites, and shuttle effects, the institute has produced a number of patents, achieving a virtuous cycle.

"But that's tens of billions of dollars." Han Shiyi still felt a little regretful.

"We are not interested in money."

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Han Shiyi felt offended.

On November 6, Hefei will host the Sino-European International Symposium on Fusion Reactors, with topics including plasma heating, fracture control, and high-energy particle physics.

An invitation was also sent to the Kyoto Institute for Materials Science.

Xu Qingzhou did not refuse.

Strictly speaking, this is his first time attending an exchange meeting in the field of controlled nuclear fusion. Although he has been trying his best to make up for his knowledge in the field of fusion over the past year, he believes that there is still a lot he needs to learn.

At the very least, it still lags behind those old monsters who have dedicated their entire lives to the field of nuclear fusion.

Of course, this doesn't mean he has no advantages.

At the very least, he is very confident in his mental agility.

October flew by, and in early November, Xu Qingzhou and Academician Ren Nan led a group of young scholars to participate in the Xia-Europe Nuclear Fusion Symposium.

It includes people such as Wang Wei, Gong Yunfei, and Hu Jingxuan.

Zhao Shengwen and Zheng Xu stayed at the research institute to continue their experiments on superconducting magnets.

This symposium was a grand event, with representatives from some of the top research institutions in China in attendance.

The Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; the Execution Center of the International Nuclear Fusion Energy Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics.

Meanwhile, fusion research institutions from Europe, including the UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAE), the European Fusion Energy Organization (EU-Fusion), Germany, France, and Italy, also participated.

As soon as Xu Qingzhou got out of the car at the entrance of the research institute, he saw many familiar faces.

Academician Li Gang, director of the Institute of Plasma Physics, Professor Xiao Chenghan, who made many trips to the Institute of Materials Science, and Professor Jiang Daiyun from Nanjing University, whom I had met before at the Oxford Frontier Physics Symposium.

Academician Li Gang took the lead and stepped forward, smiling as he said, "Professor Xu, welcome. You said you wanted to visit us last time, it's been almost a year since then, have you forgotten?"

"How could I? I've long wanted to visit and learn from the forefront of controlled nuclear fusion in our country, but I've had other things to do and can't get away."

Xu Qingzhou smiled and said that he hadn't exaggerated.

Currently, besides the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics, this is the most advanced research base for tokamak in China.

Leading the construction and operation of four generations of tokamak devices: from conventional magnet devices (HT-6B/HT-6M), to China's first superconducting tokamak (HT-7) → the world's first fully superconducting non-circular cross-section tokamak "EAST".

In fact, the Southwest Institute of Nuclear Physics was established earlier and also built my country's first tokamak device.

Because of the different technological approaches, it's really impossible to compare which one is more advanced.

But without a doubt, both of these are national research centers for controlled nuclear fusion.

(End of this chapter)