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Chapter 726 The Awards Ceremony is About to Begin

After dealing with the reporters, everyone had dinner together. Afterwards, Gu Zhizhong, Chu Jiangfeng, and others went to their own parties, while Xu Qingzhou finally had time to stroll around the night view with her family.

Take a night tour of the old town (Gamla Stan).

The Old Town, located in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden, is one of the largest and best-preserved medieval districts in Europe, characterized by medieval stone houses and Baroque architecture.

The cobblestone streets gleamed with a moist sheen under the warm yellow streetlights, the streetlights along Lake Mälaren were reflected on the water, and the lights of the Riksbron Bridge, which connects the old town and the city hall, shone like chains, conveying an ancient atmosphere with the silhouette of the church steeple on the opposite shore, Knights Island.

Song Yao, Song Lulu, Wang Xiaping, and Zhang Junli walked ahead in high spirits, while Xu Qingzhou and his two companions followed behind.

"Tsk tsk, Europe is truly blessed." Xu Shouyun turned his gaze away from a young man holding a guitar in the distance and clicked his tongue in amazement.

“Yes, that’s the advantage of having fewer people,” Song Shisong remarked from the side. “After coming to Europe, I can understand why some people don’t want to go back after coming here.”

In Xia Kingdom, any slightly famous scenic spot is packed with people during holidays.

Those niche tourist destinations that are touted as popular are either fabricated by online celebrities, turning a patch of grass into a prairie in photos, or they become overcrowded by the time you arrive after you've just discovered them.

“But ultimately, nothing beats having your own country,” Xu Shouyun said.

Song Shisong agreed: "Yes, it's all foreigners around. It's not as comfortable as staying in my hometown."

"Development always takes time."

Xu Qingzhou said with a smile, "Xia Country has developed quite well in recent years. In another ten or twenty years, foreigners might be flocking to our country."

When I was in school, I always saw the phrase "vast land and abundant resources" in textbooks. But as my understanding and horizons broadened, I found that it was not so optimistic. With 14 billion people as the denominator, the per capita share of all resources ranks low in the world.

This is also why he values ​​energy.

For a country with a large population, energy is of paramount importance.

"Hehe, it would be great if you could come up with something like the Nobel Prize."

Xu Shouyun started to daydream, paused, and then joked, "That way, scientists from Xia Country won't have to take a flight of more than ten hours to receive their big awards."

"If only awards comparable to the Nobel Prize were as easy to obtain as you say."

Xu Qingzhou chuckled to himself.

The core bottleneck for Nobel Prize-level awards lies in the lack of public trust, rather than funding or technology.

To put it simply, money can't solve everything.

The Nobel Prize has achieved its current authority over more than a century. Firstly, it needs international academic credibility and recognition. Secondly, it needs a robust research ecosystem with a continuous output of top-tier research, leading to increased international influence. Finally, it requires capital and operational mechanisms to ensure a long-term funding pool.
In short, it's quite difficult.

It would be very difficult to accomplish in less than several decades.

"What are you three talking about back there? Come over and take pictures!"

Wang Xiaping called out from a distance.

"I'm coming."

The family took a group photo and didn't return to the hotel until after 10 pm, exhausted.

Xu Qingzhou took a shower, then sat down at the table and turned on his computer.

On the research side, the experimental data from the quantum sensing magnetic field monitoring system hadn't come out yet. It was only 10 p.m., and he was going to take another look at the supersymmetric zeta function theory.

12 month 10 day.

The core day of the Nobel Prize award ceremony. At 2 p.m., Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao took a private car to the Grand Hotel in Stockholm Concert Hall.

The awards ceremony was much larger than the initial airport welcome.

Even when Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao came out of the hotel, they were already surrounded by cameras and microphones, and among the many cameras, it was easy to spot the "CTV" reporter.

Now, Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao are traveling alone in a royal limousine to the Stockholm Concert Hall. Old Xu and the others will be picked up by someone later and taken to their seats in the viewing area.

In the hall, Xu Qingzhou and his wife greeted the other Nobel laureates. Some were traveling with their wives, just like Xu Qingzhou, while others were traveling alone.
Led by staff, a group of Nobel laureates emerged from the hotel.

Suddenly, you could hear the clicking sound of a camera taking pictures.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao walked calmly outside, arm in arm.

"Dear viewers, this is a live report from CCTV reporters at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. It is now the afternoon of December 10, 2020. The Nobel Prize award ceremony is about to begin, and all the laureates are departing from here to the Stockholm Concert Hall."

"Please look at the picture. This is Professor Xu Qingzhou, the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, and his wife, Ms. Song Yao. As a scientist from China, Professor Xu won this honor for solving the problem of 'lithium dendrites and shuttle effect' in the field of lithium batteries, and became the only chemistry laureate in 2020."

Outside the hotel, people could be seen waving the Xia Kingdom's flag and holding signs with the name "Xu Qingzhou".

Since there was no interview session, Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao nodded slightly to the CTV camera before boarding the shuttle bus with the other Nobel laureates.

CTV's live broadcast was also simultaneously transmitted back to China, and it went viral on Weibo.

"Xu Shen is awesome!"

"Damn, I was so excited to see Xu Shen walk out of the hotel."

"Cry, all of you, cry!"

"Have you noticed that Xu Qingzhou seems out of place among this group of Nobel laureates?"

"Nonsense, Professor Xu is only 24 years old. Look at all the winners around him, aren't they all over forty?"

"Our country's third Nobel laureate!"

“I was just sharing this with my girlfriend. She didn’t even cry during such a big scene, so I just slapped her twice.”

"Bro, don't fly around too much, you don't have a girlfriend."

"Are the brothers from Sichuan upstairs still alive?"

"Stop shouting, he's probably kneeling on a washboard right now."

"Is that my idol's wife next to me? My heart is broken!"

"She's already married, and the woman next to her is a talented woman from Peking University."

In front of the Stockholm Concert Hall.

The royal Volvo limousine drove into the square in front of the concert hall.

Countless flashes were going off in the media areas on both sides.

Taking advantage of the moment when Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao passed by, a female reporter from CTV asked, "Professor Xu, having received this honor at the age of 24, what would you like to say to young researchers?"

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yao stopped in front of the CTV reporter. Smiling, they said, "As young people, we must dare to take risks and believe that the end of scientific research is always the beginning of the next one."

After speaking, he nodded to the camera, then took Song Yao's arm and walked towards the hall, where they signed their names on the Nobel Prize-colored autograph wall at the entrance of the concert hall.

(End of this chapter)