I don’t quite understand, “There are many people living abroad today, don’t their parents also live in China? What does this have to do with you returning to China?”
He shook his head and said: "Mayor Feng, maybe you have not lived abroad for a long time, or your situation is completely different from mine. My wife's and my parents are both in Jiangnan Province. We live abroad and we are both only children.
Women, we always worry about our parents’ physical condition.
At the beginning, I didn't feel anything wrong, but as my parents got older, their physical condition became worse and worse than before.
One year, my father almost died of acute pancreatitis. I couldn't make it back from abroad, so I had to stay by the phone every day to inquire about my father's condition. Later, my father-in-law died of a cerebral hemorrhage. It was only then that we felt that we could no longer stay abroad.
Yes, because doing that is the greatest disrespect to our parents.
No matter how good the conditions abroad are, our roots are in China after all, and some things are impossible to get rid of."
After hearing what he said, I immediately understood and understood. I was thinking: It would be impossible for me to settle abroad for a long time now, and it would definitely be impossible for me to let my mother live alone in China.
.It is impossible for me to let my mother go abroad with me. At her age, it would be a very cruel thing for her to leave her hometown with me.
I nodded and said, "That's true. Then, why did you go to work as a temporary worker in a local area? What I'm more curious about is, why didn't you continue to teach in a university when you came back from a temporary job in a local area?"
He smiled bitterly and said: "When I was in Germany, I thought that the best institutions in the country were universities. After all, I was engaged in scientific research.
But when I went to work in a university, I found that the academic atmosphere in China was too bad, and academic people became very impetuous. Many people's papers were copied, and power occupies a large proportion in academia.
, as long as they are leaders above the vice president level, they must be master's degree supervisors or even doctoral supervisors. Even political leaders who are not engaged in academic research at all can actually become so-called master's degree supervisors in management.
However, people like me who specialize in academic research have become an alternative, and the projects I applied for are not taken seriously at all.
Later, the school notified me to take a temporary job in a local area, maybe because I gave them advice many times. After all, I am a Ph.D. student studying abroad, and they would be worried about making things worse if they didn't take care of my emotions."
I immediately laughed, "You just obeyed their arrangements?"
He smiled and said: "I am Chinese, maybe I still regard being an official as an ideal in my bones, right? Didn't someone say that? We Chinese may regard being an official as our only belief. This statement may be somewhat
It’s extreme, but it at least illustrates the mentality of many of us.”
I laughed and said, "This is the first time I have heard such a statement, but it seems quite reasonable."
He then continued: "After I got to the place, I realized that I didn't know what to do at all. I didn't understand anything about the local procedures, so I had to say nothing at every meeting.
A few months passed like that, and I felt that such work was just a waste of my time.
Later, I thought of the project I had studied abroad, so I tried to persuade the mayor to invest in a factory specializing in manufacturing high-end leather. However, they were not interested in this matter at all, because local projects were all based on attracting investment.
Way.
The mayor said to me: Most of today’s state-owned enterprises have been sold to private individuals, so how can we invest in state-owned enterprise projects again?”
I almost laughed. I couldn't help but think: This person is really bookish.
Then I heard him continue to say: "At this time, I realized that I was indeed too bookish, but I also soon realized that I might be best suited to engage in my own scientific research.
But anyway, the year I worked at the local level was very fruitful. On the one hand, I gradually adapted to the local working model. Anyway, I didn’t necessarily have to do practical things, but I had to work with the local government.
To build a good relationship with your leaders, all you need to do is go out and drink with them often.
On the other hand, in the following period, I met a lot of people because of my job. It was during that period that I met a businessman who had worked in a scientific research unit before. We hit it off immediately.
During the conversation, I talked about the project I had studied in Germany, which is what I have now.
He was very interested after hearing this and said to me: Why don't you continue to research your project from now on? I will fund the construction of a research institute. If the research is successful in the future and it is put into production, I will only account for 30% of the research.
shares.
I was immediately impressed by his offer, and since I was completely disappointed with the current environment in colleges and universities, and also hoped to have a career of my own, I agreed."
To be honest, his experiences touched me a lot. I thought to myself, if I were asked to give up everything to do my own research like him, I might not be able to persist at all. Scientific research must be done
I can endure loneliness and temporarily abandon the immediate interests. I am confident that I can't do it at all.
I sighed and said, "I am also a graduate of a college. I also feel what you said."
He looked at me in surprise, "Did Mayor Feng also graduate from college? What is your major?"
I replied: "I majored in medicine. But then I ended up on this path. In fact, this is also a kind of helplessness."
He shook his head and said: "Mayor Feng, then you are very powerful. It is not easy for someone who graduated from college to become the mayor at such a young age like you. When I came to the local government, I was very good.
You are still older now, but I didn't understand anything at that time."
In fact, I shouldn't have said such things to him, but just now I suddenly felt that this was a necessary way to get closer to him. Maybe in this way, he could trust me more, and maybe he could also ask me for help.
Reveal something.
So I said to him next: "It seems that we are really destined. We are both from colleges and universities, so we will naturally have a sense of intimacy with each other in our hearts. In this way, we just met today, and from now on we will
There is still a lot of time for communication, now let’s talk about your project.”
He looked at me and said, "Didn't your deputy mayor talk to me last time? Is there something wrong now?" (To be continued)