I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 178 Cash on Delivery

Before the college entrance examination, in addition to the final mobilization of the three campuses of Xindongweigang Middle School, Chief Instructor Zhang also had to go to the "Jiangning City Chengdong District Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School" to hold a graduation ceremony.

Everyone has a need for rituals; it's just that individuals have different material conditions, so the degree to which they have them varies.

Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School in Chengdong District, Jiangning City, is a newly established vocational and technical training school by "Zhang An Education" after integrating engineering equipment skills training station, urban service skills training station and other units. It spans two cities and was integrated in sync with the "Thousand Mu Industrial Park".

Previously, the training mainly focused on construction vehicles such as excavators and bulldozers. The men were busy making money, so the graduation batches were quick. Now that "Zhang An Real Estate" and "Zhang An Construction" have been established, the number of fixed construction sites has increased, so there is no longer such a rush.

In this regard, I would also like to thank Uncle Zhang, a "Chenzhuang worker" from Chenzhuang Town, Fengyi County. He is extremely enthusiastic about learning. He has probably tasted the benefits of having skills and is not in a hurry to find a construction site to start working immediately. Moreover, the trainees, mainly from Pengcheng, who are "Chenzhuang workers", will take the initiative to tell trainees from other places stories about so-and-so from their hometown who went out to work on their own but couldn't get their wages, etc., which is of great help to the trainees' discipline.

On the other hand, the local armed forces department in Linh Tay province was finally able to reliably introduce career paths to veterans. The veterans traveled thousands of miles with the cooperation of the armed forces departments in both places, and basically, they would charter an entire train carriage to come over.

The Yongzhou Railway Bureau also provided considerable assistance, with some retired veterans from the former Railway Corps contributing significantly.

Therefore, in terms of publicity, after coordination, Zhang Da'an didn't care if the Yongzhou Railway Bureau took a little more of the reputation; it wouldn't make a difference.

This year's "Model Units for Supporting the Police and the Military" include several stations under the Yongzhou Railway Bureau. CCTV also went to Lingxi Province to film a segment about veterans going out to work with smiles on their faces.

The camera work is quite impactful. The train is about to depart, and the windows of the green carriages are open. One by one, dark-skinned young men grin and wave to the people seeing them off, their smiles as bright as those of "Xu Sanduo" (a character from a popular Chinese TV series).

CCTV even created a headline called "Dream," but when they came to Jiangning City to interview Head Coach Zhang, he said he had no dreams, leaving the CCTV reporters completely bewildered...

After nearly forty hours, they arrived in Jiangning. The busiest people were the officers from the armed forces departments of various counties in Lingxi Province. They didn't have much money in their pockets. After arriving, in addition to "scouting out" the area and checking out the environment, they also checked how the group of "handsome guys" who had come to pave the way earlier were doing.

Seeing that "Pineapple Boy" could already drive a big truck, had obtained a high school diploma, and was about to get a college diploma, he was so happy that he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet.

I didn't have any good gifts, so I just gave them some dried field mice, dried lychees, and dried squid. The only fresh fruit I could bring was still bright green bananas. I couldn't bring anything else, as they would all get suffocated on the train.

"Mr. Zhang, thank you so much."

"I've made money too, you know. In the past two years, 'Pineapple Boy' and his gang have done a lot of things with me, including murder and arson..."

"..."

"That's definitely not going to happen."

"..."

A sudden gasp startled the officials from various counties, who thought that if things were like this, they might as well go to the Pearl River Delta to start a business, cut off fingers and remove rings—that would make money so quickly!

"It's quite remarkable that these kids can do all the dirty and tiring work; they're just naturally good people."

"We also have to thank Mr. Zhang for providing such a good environment. Some of the kids in our area have families who are too busy with work to manage them, so they go out into the streets and mess around with people, fighting, stabbing, and getting into all sorts of things. Some of them have gone crazy from getting into all sorts of things, and some have even drowned at night because they got carried away with it..."

They murmured and lamented something, yet were powerless to do anything. Looking at these respectable "cousins" of Zhang Da'an, some of the veterans were probably overcome with emotion, their eyes turning red. It was only through willpower that they managed to hold back their tears.

Seeing this, Zhang Da'an invited them to have some tea, hoping to calm them down.

These staff members are very tactful and won't make unreasonable demands. Sometimes, even if they know they could ask Zhang Da'an to loosen his grip and hire more people, they will choose to avoid the topic once they understand the increase in positions.

The style is completely different from that in Shazhou City. If it were Qiu Jianmin or Zhang Zhengdong, it would be doubled, doubled, and doubled again. Once this opportunity is gone, it's gone forever.

The main idea is to make the best use of resources, people, and everything else.

It's about unity and hard work. Fighting alongside your own people is also a form of hard work.

You're already carrying such a heavy burden, what's wrong with adding a little more?
It's all about unconventional methods; the more unconventional the methods, the more methods you'll find...

Sometimes Zhang Da'an was also curious. Everyone was from the Jiangnan water towns. It couldn't be that other places were full of small bridges, flowing water, and houses, while Shazhou City was a place where heartbroken people were far away.

How is one's temperament formed?

"Regarding 'Pineapple Boy' and the others' military service, is there any news about it now?"

"Mr. Zhang, rest assured, Bo and the others have all passed the physical examination and will definitely be able to enlist."

"Then we'll send a group back to join the army next year. This year I'll make the most of the time and let them learn more technical skills."

Originally, "Pineapple Boy" and his friends didn't plan to join the army. They wanted to make more money while they were young. But after their house was renovated, Zhang Da'an advised them not to rush to make money. As long as he was alive, making money wasn't something to worry about.

The armed forces departments of various counties in Lingxi Province also warmly welcome the young people who came out of the army to go back to the army for training, so that they can become role models after they come out.

In fact, "Pineapple Boy" himself is already a role model. He got a high school diploma, which became a good story even though there were regular high school students in the village. Later, it was said that he got a truck driver, which meant that he had a skill to make a living and would never starve in his life. This earned him praise from the village elders.

This year, rumors have circulated that he will soon receive his associate's degree. There were already quite a few professional matchmakers visiting his door, and now even some have come from other counties.

To save face for his son, Liang Chunbo's father, while not completely abstaining from smoking and drinking, stopped even gambling, which he considered "a little bit of fun." Instead, he learned the craft from the village's bamboo weaver. For a man in his fifties to make such a decision, the upheaval in his inner world is unimaginable.

Now, my younger cousins, who have learned technical skills, are joining the army. For many people back home, this is a significant achievement in their careers.

Zhang Da'an found it inconvenient to directly give gifts to these people who were doing the work, so even if he did make some gestures, he mostly went through the proper channels. The title of "Model of Supporting the Police and the Military" was not important to him, but in many agricultural counties in Lingxi Province, honors were the only things they could offer.

Even if there are plenty of local resources, the first step in selling them to Zhang Da'an is to build a road.

Due to its geographically fragmented nature, the infrastructure development in Lingxi Province is not systematic and lacks even a basic network structure. To date, it still relies on transportation nodes left over from the early days of the People's Republic of China.

Therefore, even if some counties and townships wanted to offer something to do business with Zhang Da'an, they couldn't make it big and could only operate on a small scale.

However, because of the title of "Model of Supporting the Police and the Military", the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Lingxi Province was willing to cooperate with "Zhang An Education". On the one hand, they had the idea of ​​attracting sponsorship and funding, and on the other hand, they were afraid of encountering the wrong person. Some achievements could be transferred to anyone, so they might as well give them to someone who at least looked like a decent person.

"Ah Qiu, you and 'Pineapple Boy' take everyone around. It's a rare trip to Jiangning, so let's go to the Qinhuai River and Confucius Temple. Tell the convoy to get ready."

"Okay, Brother Da'an."

Tang Jianqiu was on duty today. As arranged by Zhang Da'an, he temporarily formed a tour group with people from his hometown. It was inconvenient and inappropriate to give them money, but arranging for them to take photos and check in at famous tourist attractions was still acceptable.

There were a few meals and drinks, and we also had local colleagues from other units to join us, so it didn't feel like a publicly funded trip.

Another timely notification was that the armed forces departments of each county did not say anything was inappropriate or unacceptable, showing that they were not lacking in basic human decency.

At this time, "Pineapple Boy" was still on the road. He had been traveling along the "Shanghai-Nanjing Line" recently. He had a warehouse in Liucheng District of Luzhou, which mainly stocked products such as "Zhuangyuanxing" and "Zhuangyuanjinbang". It was converted from two standard factory buildings with cranes. Currently, the employees are basically graduates of "Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School".

The employees are mainly from Jiangkou Province and Jianghuai Province, with a small number of locals from the suburbs of Luzhou. The competition is not fierce. Unlike other warehousing and logistics bosses who bring their fellow villagers to grab territory, the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" has now reached cooperation agreements with local universities in Luzhou.

In addition, the reputation of a "three-time champion" is too special. No matter how wild the "gangster boss" is, reason tells him that all benefits are earned through hard work. However, the genetic code in the Chinese people's bones makes the "gangster boss" dare not offend the champion.

There was no government meeting, no backroom deals, no communication whatsoever; they simply didn't dare, and even the thought of "taking a chance" was firmly thwarted.

The huge sales of "Top Scholar Star" have led to improved benefits for frontline employees, which is truly remarkable.

In the past, bosses had to communicate with each other. The wages of truck drivers were set at one level, the wages of truck drivers and order couriers were set at another level, the wages of warehouse managers were set at another level, and the wages of order dispatchers were set at another level...

This is considered standard practice in the industry, and "Zhang An Electronics" has violated this practice.

However, after discovering that companies like "Zhang An Electronics" and "Zhang An Health" did not directly recruit through social channels, they felt relieved.

We're not on the same path, so let's each do our own thing.

So even though the treatment of frontline employees in the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" was more than 50 percent above the average, it didn't have much of an impact. At most, frontline employees in the same industry would complain a bit, but the bosses didn't care. What's the use of complaining? I won't give you a raise even if you complain. Anyway, you can't get a job in the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance".

If you want to work for "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance", there are still social recruitment opportunities in Shazhou City and Chengdong District, but once you are recruited, you still have to go through the internal training process, which is the same as going to "Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School".

The local employees in Luzhou Liucheng District were not recruited locally. Instead, local employees had relatives who frequently went online and found the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" employment model. They were advised to register in Jiangning City and then apply for jobs there.

The process was actually quite complicated, but the results were excellent. The overall expenditure on human resources was much smaller than that of our competitors, and the risk was also very low.

Last year, the largest labor intermediaries in Luzhou wanted to open up the cooperative market of "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance". The main reason is that all experienced human resources professionals in the industry know that starting in the fourth quarter of this year, "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" will expand significantly.

Relying solely on "Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School" to internally supply frontline positions is far from sufficient.

Zhang'an Electronics alone will have a staffing shortage of about 3,800 people in the coming year, covering end-product production, end-product sales, and warehousing and logistics. In particular, the Zhang'an Industrial Alliance is developing a higher standard of safety management system, which requires higher educational qualifications and skills for its employees.

This means that Coach Zhang's ability to generate revenue for his companies is not yet keeping up with demand. The companies are developing too fast, even though he is trying to be quite restrained. But that's how the industrial structure works: the more division of labor there is, the more jobs there are, and there will be a multiplier effect.

This is great news for Luzhou City. The reason is simple: even the rural population of Luzhou City generally has a higher level of education. Therefore, the salary of the new front-line positions at Zhang'an Electronics in the next year will be between 80 million and 100 million yuan.

Regardless of where it lands in the suburbs, if all 80 million come here, the tax revenue will be substantial. Based on the normal proportion of consumer electronics production capacity, it can bring in about 100 million in tax revenue.

Of course, the premise is that they all land in Luzhou; one must still have dreams.

Employment is a different matter altogether. If all three or four thousand people were from Luzhou, the districts and towns where they would settle could breathe a sigh of relief.

Unfortunately, this is impossible. What Luzhou City is really eyeing is the high-end employment positions in the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance". The two university clusters are in a competitive ecological niche, covering almost all social production activities such as industry, agriculture, and finance.

However, there is both competition and cooperation. Zhang Da'an's reputation has not yet been fully translated into commercial results. The cooperation with the university cluster in Jiangning City has only yielded initial results in terms of both software and hardware.

Even with initial success, "God Slayer" is likely to reach 800 million in revenue this year, and "Top Scholar Star" is even more incredible, with a scale of 2 billion to 4 billion, which is enough to attract universities in Shanghai and other cities to come and discuss cooperation.

As "Zhang Xiaobai Technology Co., Ltd." prepared for its IPO, numerous industry-academia-research related units from Huzhou City joined in, urging "Zhang An Health" to expand its scale. The main force behind this was the major players from Huzhou City.

After all, "Zhang An Health" is really suitable for telling stories in the stock market. For big players, "Zhang An Health" can be developed into a more unique local "Amway". They can't understand why there is no movement in Jiangning City. They seem to be particularly happy to make 60 million or 100 million.

Little did they know that the hardships they had endured were not something that outsiders could easily know.

There had been some commotion beforehand; the battle of wits and courage with Coach Zhang had ultimately resulted in a complete mess.

The Chengdong District sent dozens of people to work for the government, which led to the current stable and peaceful development environment. Otherwise, the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" and the "Zhang'an Industrial Park" would never have been established.

Startups come here not only with policy support, but also with equipment they can rent from the "Zhang An Industrial Alliance," including but not limited to supercomputers.

Leaving aside the exorbitantly priced experimental equipment for optical research, even a fairly standard testing laboratory for acoustics requires at least 20 million yuan for a complete set of equipment.

Of course, it will be cheaper in ten or twenty years, and you can probably build one for a few hundred thousand, but that's because domestic equipment has developed.

Currently, unless startups collaborate with sonar research institutes or other relevant research institutions, they generally don't have many good options.

It's impossible to rent one; you need a letter of introduction.

Therefore, most people pursue advanced studies in Japan, Germany, or the United States. The golden period for researchers is very short, and if they don't seize the opportunity, their whole lives will pass by.

This is just research in a specialized field. If we break it down to the application of materials, testing each compound one by one, it would be difficult to produce results without burning through 20 to 30 million yuan every year.

Moreover, while burning through funds, theoretical research must keep up. Data models need to have application scenarios, and in the process of verifying theories, supercomputers are almost standard equipment in current scientific research activities. The more parameters there are, the more electricity costs there are.

Therefore, researchers in China around the turn of the century had very limited options: either develop groundbreaking research or go out and farm gold coins.

The low rate of non-top scientists returning to China is essentially a matter of leverage.

Now that some people can solve some of the equipment and funding problems in niche fields, it naturally attracts some hesitant high-end researchers to take a chance.

With multiple paths and choices, these people who came from Luzhou to start businesses in the "Zhang'an Industrial Park" are actually exploring the way for their fellow apprentices. If they can find a path, then they will truly have a bright future.

Therefore, in order to curry favor with Zhang Da'an, scientists from Luzhou were more willing to support Zhang Da'an at informal meetings and elevate the image of the "Zhang An Industrial Alliance".

After arranging the itinerary for the armed forces officers from various counties in Lingxi Province and concluding the graduation ceremony for this batch of students from the "Xianlin Baohua Vocational Skills Training School," Chief Instructor Zhang's packed schedule still included attending an academic exchange conference on industrial development in Jiangning City.

These are all bigwigs from various parties who brought their people to discuss things. Zhang Da'an is a leading figure in "industry-academia-research integration" in Jiangkou Province, so he is naturally a bigwig as well.

In the past, it would have been the academicians of the Academy of Engineering from Xiangtai City who took the lead, but the industry scope was relatively limited, confined to civil engineering. So after the "three-time champion" emerged, Jiangkou Province basically relied on Coach Zhang as its brand.

These days, an academician can't even burn through 100 million yuan. Compared to someone like Chief Instructor Zhang, who plans to spend 2 billion yuan to play around with the Jiangning university group, it's still incomparable.

Moreover, 2 billion is just an appetizer. After its listing, "Zhang Xiaobai Technology Co., Ltd." is aiming for a market value of 100 billion. Leaving aside how the "retail investors" will build up their expectations, it's estimated that 10% to 20% of the funds raised will be spent. That's still quite alarming.

However, because burning through billions of dollars is quite bold, the speculative investors in the Yangtze River Delta region who are waiting to subscribe are more confident than the scientists.

Scientists have no idea how to make money work for them.

After the afternoon schedule was finalized, the scientists from Luzhou who had come to the "Zhang'an Industrial Park" to open a company followed Chief Instructor Zhang into the meeting room.

Their role is simply to make up the numbers; they're like a "cheerleader squad," there to show that Coach Zhang is absolutely right.

At the meeting, everyone took turns presenting their views, but the main topic was "the direction of the industrial revolution in the new stage of industrialization." Everyone had their own opinions, but overall they were converging.

However, there is no doubt that some of the people who came to observe the meeting were not there specifically to travel from Beijing to Jiangning for these convergent views.

The phrase "moving from Industrial Civilization 3.0 to 4.0," previously used by Chief Instructor Zhang, has now been adopted by a considerable number of advisors. In Jiangkou Province, youth groups' propaganda channels have begun using this concept to publish editorials.

For example, this morning's newspaper had an article titled "We Are in the Era of Industrial Civilization 3.0," written by "Jiang Dong," which was actually written by Lao Chen himself, and it was quite powerful.

Several middle-aged social science experts from Jiangning University, who are now hanging out with Lao Chen, also came to today's meeting.

They don't need to speak; they're just human recorders. After polishing it up and turning it into an article, they hand it over to Old Chen for "correction."

Coach Zhang didn't waste any words. He's now surrounded by numerous accolades, and his frequent "outrageous remarks" don't affect anything. If there's any problem, let's talk about his ever-expanding assets and social influence.

"As new technologies continue to be applied in an effort to expand market demand, I believe that in the next ten to twenty years of industrialization, the following major categories will have a significant impact on large-scale industrial production and industrialized social life."

"First, the widespread dissemination of information technology in this new phase will shrink the distance in spatial communication. The application of information technology products will replicate the past diffusion of personal computers from developed countries to developing countries, and the speed will be even faster because the birth of the Internet has made diffusion no longer dependent on new hardware carriers. At the same time, the application in this new phase of information technology will accelerate the application of intelligence. Just as humans need to free their hands, the rapidly iterating and updating technology applications in this new phase will naturally require a second round of freeing human hands. Therefore, the first major industry category that will have a significant impact is the information and intelligence industry."

"Second, new energy technologies include nuclear energy, wind energy, solar energy, hydrogen energy, etc., but the main form is still power generation, that is, electricity. In this process, due to the political and economic demands of developed countries, a series of international norms will inevitably be established, the essence of which is to lock down the possibility of industrialization for developing countries. However, we are an exception. In the past, we were not in the economic system of developed countries led by the United States, nor were we in the economic system led by the Soviet Union. With a low degree of economic dependence, it is impossible to quickly generate significant influence within us. This requires time to accumulate."

"However, precisely because of this, technological clashes are inevitable, and they will certainly be marked by clashes in industrial clusters. This applies to both solar and wind power, nuclear and hydrogen energy. As long as we demonstrate our determination to fight in one area, we can relatively easily discuss cooperation in the others. The principle of seeking peace through struggle applies in the struggle for economic interests."

"I predict that after the battle between the euro and the dollar comes to an end, Europe, which has a certain advantage in new energy technologies, will inevitably compete with us through the established international rules. Judging from the current industrial distribution, solar energy is the most likely candidate."

"But no matter what, we must fight for the right to speak on new energy technologies. Only by fighting for the right to speak can we better expand the application of new technologies in our country and further absorb more industrialized people."

"This essentially determines who will wield the greatest global influence in the next phase of industrialization."

The two points that Coach Zhang mentioned are actually a consensus among the three major industrial zones; the difference lies in where resources are allocated more.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences advocates the former, while the Chinese Academy of Engineering hopes for the latter. It has little to do with their positions; it's mainly a bet on technological breakthroughs, to see which one will have a far-reaching impact.

Normally, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is more willing to promote the development of basic scientific research. However, with the increased funding in recent years, there has definitely been a shift in thinking. Academicians also need to consider issues beyond the existing development of disciplines. Research is increasingly geared towards industry and society. The future vision of informatization and intelligentization, or rather, information intelligence, was predicted by top scholars as early as ten years ago.

This prediction comes from the same scientist who made the decision to shift the automotive industry from traditional cars to new energy vehicles, so its impact is naturally profound.

If Zhang Da'an continues to make these kinds of statements, then putting aside other places for now, Jiangkou Province will definitely have to adopt a two-pronged approach.

The country's industrial planning is all about large-scale operations, and even has a bit of a long-term "breeding up" mentality. In the two areas mentioned by Zhang Da'an, Jiangkou Province is the "loser," the kind that gets beaten down.

The main reason is that the frequency of changes in leadership within the province is too high, almost in sync with the capital. Therefore, industry experts and entrepreneurs within the province are more willing to invest in projects promoted by Luzhou.

Now that Coach Zhang is repeating his old words, it means that things are different now. Trusting his judgment is one thing, but guessing that he wants to get involved is another.

Judging from the story in Chengdong District of Jiangning City, the Zhang family member might actually cause some trouble.

In fact, just a few days ago, Jiangning University, Jiangning Institute of Technology, Wudu University and other universities received academic visit applications from the University of Porto.

Generally, prior communication and preparation are required, but this time a small group of three to five people made an advance visit, led by Jorge Gonçallves of Cambridge University, to have some academic exchanges with Professor Du Xiaoshuai of Wudu University.

Jorge Gonçallves, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence, wanted to find inspiration around "large predictive models".

His research in systems biology is currently lacking inspiration, funding, and supercomputers.

As it happens, Jiangkou Province has all of these things, except for inspiration, which is unknown.

Within the province, it is known that the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" has great ambitions in human resources. The existence of that "Labor Development Division" means that it has not established a human resources company; otherwise, it would be the largest in the province.

The program covers a wide range of areas, from skills training for farmers moving to cities to student internships and the commercialization of research findings by research scholars in collaboration with industry. These efforts are currently yielding impressive results.

People from other provinces may not be aware of the actual influence and explosive potential, but anyone with a sound mind within the province knows it perfectly well.

This time, Zhang Da'an will give an in-depth explanation of the industrial weight in the concept of "moving from Industrial Civilization 3.0 to 4.0". In fact, both the political and industrial circles are listening attentively.

The opinions of the group from Beijing were not taken seriously by the participants from within the province.

You can interpret it however you like or try to optimize it however you want; it has nothing to do with Jiangkou Province.

Based on the allocation of national tasks, the initiative in the next stage is closely related to the judgment of Coach Zhang.

After all, "Zhang Xiaobai Technology Co., Ltd." is about to go public, and those guys in Taihu City who get excited at the mere mention of "money making money" games just want to see the birth of the "King of Dogs" as soon as possible.

Before, I was too embarrassed to give a little "foot bath water," but now that I have "Dog King," there's nothing to be embarrassed about, and no amount of pleading will work.

"Third, biotechnology, or life sciences, with the tremendous social changes brought about by the new stage of industrialization, one of the major characteristics is the surge in the industrialized population. This surge in the industrialized population means that a large number of non-agricultural workers will be concentrated. In the next few years, the traditional rural structure in regions with relatively high levels of social development will rapidly disintegrate. What used to take 100, 50, or 30 years to achieve can now be accomplished in just 3 or 5 years under high-speed development, and at the latest, no more than 10 years."

"In this situation, the demand for life and health-related services from both the agricultural and non-agricultural populations within the industrialized population will expand in a very short period of time. This will lead to a shortage of talent in the life sciences field, and most of the current domestic talent in this field, unless they choose medicine, will be quickly wasted."

"The resulting negative impact is something we need to be wary of and prevent."

"Fourth, space technology. This determines the upper limit of our living space, and at any given time, the derivative technologies can bring a continuous stream of social benefits. Looking at the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the resources they consumed over the past few decades could be completely offset by the production of just one baby product. Our intellectuals should not only recognize this themselves, but also make the whole society aware of this, in order to accelerate the application of space technology at the social level."

After finishing his sentence, Zhang Da'an took a small sip of cola to stimulate his senses, and then continued, "These four categories of technologies will have a significant impact on large-scale industrial production and daily life in this new stage. In summary, the foundation of these four categories of technology industries is still basic science. Only by increasing investment in basic science can we further expand our competitive advantage."

"Here, I would like to make a proposal: companies that are proactive in R&D investment and have a large scale should be supported; companies that exploit policy loopholes and seek to gain policy support and convenience over a long period of time should be investigated and severely punished. Otherwise, in the short term, a situation of 'bad money driving out good money' will inevitably occur, which will dampen the enthusiasm of startups and emerging companies."

"At the same time, cross-examination should be conducted in the related fields of the four major technology categories to prevent technology fraud and technology leakage. There should be an independent management system to avoid local administrative interference. There should be a new assessment system for the scientific literacy level of technocrats to ensure that laymen do not guide experts. At the same time, a 'whistleblower' system should be established to ensure the safety of technology and researchers in emergencies."

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After delivering his lengthy speech, Zhang Da'an went into standby mode and didn't move again until the meeting ended.

He just checks in to complete the task and doesn't care about anything else.

After all, the fact that the "US ESI Institute of Technology" was involved in money-making schemes with "diploma mills" in China has already been exposed.

The original plan of the "US ESI Institute of Technology" was to establish a foothold in the field of "software blue-collar workers", mainly promoting the three categories of "software application and design engineers", "multimedia engineers" and "network application engineers".

To put it simply, it's a two-year "programming engineer" program. In the US, this model allows senior software engineers to free up their energy and focus more on the underlying architecture, rather than copying and pasting code.

The reason they're doing this in China now is because they see that the potential of the domestic internet market hasn't been fully realized. Once it is, the number of IT graduates from domestic universities will only be around 50,000 per year, even including all the less competitive local universities.

With a severe shortage of qualified personnel, only about 40 percent of IT graduates work in the software field each year.

How big is the market potential?

As a listed education institution, "ESI Institute of Technology" may make money, but it still puts on a show. It may not conduct detailed market research itself, but it can certainly commission a survey.

According to their assessment last year, the domestic demand for purely IT professionals was approximately between 500,000 and 800,000.

However, Zhang Da'an knew very well that the market research report purchased from the "American ESI Institute of Technology" was problematic; it wasn't that the figures were too high, but rather that they were far too low.

Zhang Da'an also secretly had the "Labor Development Division" conduct a survey, covering all fifty major and medium-sized cities across the country. The survey lasted seven months and cost two to three million yuan. The result was that, assuming the economy does not experience a situation like the "Southeast Asian financial crisis," based on the average growth rate of the past few years, the number of pure IT professionals should be around three million in the next five years.

In other words, the shortage is over two million, and it would require a nationwide frenzy of establishing related majors and increasing the weight of telecommunications-related departments within just two or three years to even slightly reduce the actual demand.

In this process, the golden age of "coders" will truly arrive. "Coders" who graduate from crash courses will be able to earn more than five times the income of manufacturing workers with the same level of education and skills.

This is an objective requirement.

So the matter becomes simple: if "Zhang An Education" doesn't make money from this... wouldn't that be unethical?!

After Lao Chen reported the situation to the provincial authorities, the provincial authorities, along with several local universities, reported the actual situation to Beijing. Originally, Beijing University of Technology was going to make some excuses, but someone mentioned that "Comrade Zhang An" would report that the China Processing Industry Business School did not have the qualifications to operate a school...

So, despite cursing, he also admitted defeat.

One of the school leaders in charge of the matter was used as a sacrifice, as a way of giving an explanation.

As for whether that scoundrel surnamed Zhang will continue to pursue the matter... that depends on whether there's double the reward.

If you promise double the amount, but you turn it into 1.5 or 1.8 times, that still causes significant losses to people.

If this 20% to 50% difference is reduced, "Comrade Zhang An" will feel very pained.

Earning less is equivalent to losing money.

The people in Beijing were also very considerate, acting decisively and without any hesitation. So, Head Coach Zhang gave them face and spoke frankly, expressing his opinion.

By outlining the four major industries, he means he believes he should bet on all four, not just one, and he will personally participate in the game.

He spent 160 million to buy satellites and launched them haphazardly into space, which was already a strong support for the country's space program.

He didn't say what he would do next, and others couldn't easily find out.

Overall, the response has been positive, and the "breeding gu" mode, which was originally planned to be launched later, may arrive sooner than expected.

For cities with a strong foundation in science and education, while urban functional departments are launching basic construction projects at a frenzy, they are also encouraged to give full play to their initiative in the "four major industries".

It wasn't just lip service to support them; the draft of the support policy had been buried in the relevant ministries for two or three decades. It's just that in the past, the scientific "late spring cold" was more important for selling color TVs, and if they wanted to fly a J-10 prototype, the "old factory director" had to be present to show his support. So, it could only remain buried.

Now that a number of people have been outlasted, it can be considered that they can give full play to their abilities.

With Zhang Da'an proposing the concept of "moving from Industrial Civilization 3.0 to 4.0", the propaganda machine of Jiangkou Province started running, and its influence was still sufficient.

At least it can affect the University of Science and Technology of China in Luzhou. Regardless of whether Luzhou is happy about it or not, just tell me whether it has been affected or not.

How significant is the actual impact?

That is, among the partners who were introduced to the enterprise reward fund for the first time since the implementation of the "National High Technology Research and Development Program", there were companies such as "Zhang An Education", "Zhang An Electronics", "Zhang An Health" and "Zhang An Food".

Among them, "Zhang'an Electronics" has set up a "Major Software Project Award Fund" specifically for USTC, with a total amount initially set at 20 million yuan.

The awarding of the prize money is determined entirely by the expert committee, and the funder, "Zhang An Electronics," only has the priority right to commercialize the scientific and technological achievements.

Not only is USTC envious, but Luzhou City itself is envious. Is this how companies in Jiangning City test the researchers from our local prestigious university in Luzhou?
Which researcher could withstand such a test!

You should at least broaden the scope a bit.

Even if it doesn't qualify as a project under the "National High-Tech Research and Development Program", shouldn't we be more lenient and give it some consideration if it qualifies as a major research project of a ministry?

Most importantly, the priority right to commercialize this scientific and technological achievement is still negotiable.

If we remove the word "priority," can we add something else?

If we remove the word "conversion," could we perhaps strengthen the overall impact?

Head Coach Zhang himself didn't seem to have any particular emotions, but there were quite a few local officials and university leaders from Jianghuai Province who came to the provincial capital to report the situation.

When funding is generally lacking, and then suddenly a big-name "idiot" appears, who can contain their emotions?
Of course, the local officials and leaders of local universities in Jianghuai Province did not go to Luzhou, but to Jiangning, the provincial capital.

(End of this chapter)