As a person who studies economics, especially macroeconomics, Cheng Yu is very clear that a data modeling often represents the researcher's completely independent style.
Economics also involves a lot of data modeling operations. Although it is not the same thing as scientific research modeling, the principles are similar.
When two people or a team collaborate, if the modeling aspect is led by one of them, then he is definitely one of the key figures in the project.
Regarding the model, almost all subsequent data needs to be continuously provided by the leader of the modeling. It is as if he constitutes the bottom layer of a building block castle. Although this person's departure does not mean that the bottom building blocks will also
Then leave, but when the building blocks are raised, the algorithm will continue to be used.
Climbing each floor requires the most basic model data to support it. Faced with such a situation, it is normal for Wu Jing to be unable to continue research on that project.
After pondering for a while, Cheng Yu realized that if it was just a project, it would not worry Wu Jing so much. After all, the institute has abandoned countless projects over the years. There is no need for Wu Jing to be obsessed with such a project.
Cheng Yu asked tentatively: "How many similar projects are there?"
"a lot of."
Wu Jing's answer confirmed Cheng Yu's suspicion.
He asked again: "What was that person's specific responsibility when he was at the research institute?"
"At that time, he was the chief engineer and I was his deputy. He was mainly responsible for data modeling, the foundation of foundations. It is no exaggeration to say that he was absolutely indispensable in the research institute. That's right.
Because the foundation he laid was so solid, we were able to successfully carry out research and development of various projects at that time. However, such a person had to leave the institute because of salary issues. We cannot blame him, after all, he is not like us.
Same."
Cheng Yu didn't say a word. He knew that Wu Jing would be like opening a reservoir, and all the information about this person would flow out continuously.
"I can't say that the remaining researchers in the institute have no worries about food and clothing, but they basically have enough escape routes behind them. If the needs of life are put at the level of ordinary people, then we can barely say
It’s not an exaggeration to achieve financial freedom. Of course, you can’t compare with Mr. Cheng, but most of our researchers come from military officer families or high-level families. The staged financial freedom is considered reluctant, at least there is no need to worry about a house and a house.
Having a full stomach is too worrying. This is why we have been able to stay in the institute for so many years."
Cheng Yu nodded, with many emotions in his heart. He probably already understood what Wu Jing was going to say next. And this is indeed the current situation faced by many scientific research units.
Those who can stay have something to rely on to ensure food and clothing.
What about those who left? Obviously they have to bear the various expenses of their parents and children.
Scientists also have to eat.
"Gong Li is different from us. He comes from a very poor family. His family is a farmer in Xingong Province, an old area in the central area. The family conditions are very poor. When he was in high school, if the principal of the middle school in the town had not taken care of his tuition and miscellaneous expenses,
I'm afraid there will be no Gong Li later. Later, he was admitted to university, and happened to encounter the restructuring of the education department, the expansion of university enrollment, and no longer guaranteeing allocation. The term "publicly funded students" was completely abolished, and all students studied at their own expense. Faced with every year
Li Gong's family can't afford the tuition fee of more than 3,000 yuan, and even the old principal who has carefully trained him for three years can't help."
Cheng Yu's mind raced. He roughly knew that the state completely abolished public-funded students in the mid-1990s, twenty years ago. This means that Gong Li should be around forty years old now.
Huh? That engineer Li is younger than Wu Jing? But he was the chief engineer, and Wu Jing was just his deputy at the time?
Moreover, this person should have been away from the institute for at least five years.
At around the age of thirty-five, he has already served as the chief engineer of a department-level research institute, which shows his ability.
"I heard Li Gong say that when he was admitted to university, his first choice was Peking University, but because of the family environment, he had decided to give up. He was going to study at a local normal school, and that normal university agreed to give him
Tuition fees are waived, and he can become a teacher immediately after graduating from a normal school, thus helping his family. The old principal helped him find a former student of his and contacted a military academy."
Cheng Yu nodded. Military schools in those days were free of tuition. At that time, graduates of military schools were considered to be soldiers from the moment they entered the school. Moreover, military schools provided subsidies. The subsidies were very small, but they were enough.
Let him have enough food and clothing in school, and even help his family with a little help.
"Gong Li received his doctorate degree when he was 27 years old and came to our institute during his postdoctoral research period.
Within two years, he participated in the modeling of more than 80% of the projects of the institute. Finally, due to Chen Suo's efforts to persuade him, he stayed in our institute. Because he participated in almost most of the projects, he was indispensable in every project, but when it came to
In the later stages of project development, his role was relatively relaxed.
Therefore, after careful study, the superior leaders decided to make an exception and promote him to deputy chief engineer in his fifth year at our institute. The chief engineer at that time was already a retired cadre who was just rehired.
In fact, he was the general person in charge of all projects of our institute. But it happened that at that time, the superior leaders decided to restructure the institute, so that all benefits such as housing allocation were cancelled...
It can’t be considered a cancellation, it’s just that I can’t afford it anymore and I have no money…”
There was no need for Wu Jing to continue talking, Cheng Yu could guess the subsequent development.
It's just that Li Gong became the chief engineer naturally. In the entire institute, apart from the secretary and Chen Jiang, he is the third person and the technical leader.
According to the timeline, he was only thirty-two or thirteen years old at that time.
For a family like Li Gong, he has struggled in the research institute for several years, and he is at the age when he should enjoy the benefits of housing allocation, and his parents should be over sixty years old in the old district.
The sixty-year-olds in that difficult environment are different from the sixty-year-old retirees in the city today. Their health is often very poor and even sick. Of course, Li Gong has the need to bring his parents to Wu Donglai.
Unable to satisfy his superiors and the institute's self-sufficiency was insufficient, it was normal for Mr. Li to choose to leave.
"Isn't he a soldier? He can't leave, can he?"
"When he was promoted to deputy chief engineer, he was considered a career change. At that time, his salary was 6,000 yuan per month, which was not bad compared with Wu Dong's salary environment at that time. But in the past few years of his work, his father's health
He has been in poor condition, and medical treatment has consumed almost all his income. Although the house price was relatively cheap at the time and not unaffordable, he obviously couldn't afford it. It was also at that time that I saved tens of thousands of yuan.
My family gave me tens of thousands of yuan to buy a house in Dongshan, which was not long after the county was reorganized into a district. When I bought the house, the house price there was a little over 3,000 yuan, and the down payment required about 100,000 yuan."
"But in his case, after all, from bachelor's degree to master's and doctorate, they are all trained by the state. Even if he changes his career and loses his military status, it won't be easy to leave, right?"
"The leader in charge of our research institute at the time didn't understand. After Gong Li proposed to resign, he came down to investigate and felt that he was just a modeler. He even criticized us and said that a modeler should be engaged in
For the most basic job, we actually let him become the chief engineer, which is unreasonable in itself.
In the leader's eyes, modeling is probably a job that anyone can do with just some data.
He also said at the time that even if Gong Li did not resign, if he understood the situation, he would make him an ordinary chief researcher. The chief engineer must be someone like me who has the ability to lead a scientific research team to tackle key problems.
Responsible for.
We strongly opposed it at the time, but the leader still insisted on approving Gong Li's resignation. After Gong Li left, many projects of the institute were forced to suspend, and even several projects were in the middle and late stages of development. I remember that they were already in the middle and late stages of development, and they were soon completed.
Everything that was possible to be completed had to be stopped.
That leader promoted me to chief engineer and once regarded me as a direct descendant. Maybe he thought that he promoted me and I would be grateful to him. But he didn’t know that it was him who gave us many projects and many projects.
Projects that have been developed for many years have been in vain, and the scientific research funds allocated by the state have also been wasted."
Cheng Yu sighed slightly. He didn't understand these things, and he didn't know what was going on in these higher-level leadership departments, but he could understand Wu Jing's mood.
"Wu Gong, you don't have to be too emotional. After all, it has been so many years. The technology and R&D a few years ago are probably not too valuable now, right?"
Wu Jing nodded heavily and said: "Most of it is true, and scientific research is also highly time-sensitive. But for the project I mentioned before, until now, no similar scientific research results with the same value have appeared. And that research
We had already reached the final stage of tackling the project.”
Cheng Yu was stunned, and suddenly remembered that when he signed the contract to acquire the 30% stake in Wang Hongjin's hand, the system gave him one hundred points, which made him realize that there was still some hidden value in the institute that had not been discovered.
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Now, according to Wu Jing, Cheng Yu is almost certain that the project he just mentioned must be the part that may increase the value of the research institute.
"Is there a huge market demand for that project?"
Wu Jing shook his head and said: "I don't know much about this. After all, I am only engaged in scientific research. I don't understand the market. However, this project is definitely in a leading position in similar research. It must have been developed when it was first developed.
It is treated as an important military technology, but now, there should be alternative technologies in the military field, but in the civilian field, I have not heard of any that can achieve the results of our project."
Cheng Yu's heart was hammered hard. He knew that this must be the hidden value of the institute that he was looking for.
At least, it's one of them.
"How many projects like this, I mean, are there that can still be in a leading position in the civilian field?"
Wu Jing closed his eyes, thought carefully, and said hesitantly: "I can't say, after all, some projects have just begun, but in addition to this, there are two projects, both of which are about halfway through. Personally, I
I feel that it is also beyond the reach of the current technology on the market.”
