Half an hour later, President Xu of Jiaotong University brought a few close assistants to Zhu Youran's newly bought apartment at the school gate to catch up with Gu Kun and talk about cross-border cooperation in running schools.
Before coming, they had already had a general understanding of the Lanfang people's intentions.
Because it was very close to the school, Principal Xu was very friendly and did not choose to take a car, but walked. When entering the gate of the community, because there were many people with him, he was questioned and was allowed to enter after showing his ID.
After all, the apartment in front of me was only put into use last year. It is considered the latest batch of real estate projects in Shanghai. The security measures and supporting facilities are naturally good and the management is tight. If Principal Xu came by bus, the security guard felt that he would not be a bad person.
Maybe they wouldn't stop the interrogation, but most of the people walking here were poor, so how could they not ask.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the service levels of the best communities in Hujiang have been fully in line with international standards. They are completely different from the first years of Gu Kun's rebirth - you can imagine that the movie "Big Shot" has been filmed and released at this time.
. It can be seen that although all the things that the mental patients ridicule in it have not been realized, they are not far away. Otherwise, a screenwriter with a profession with little foresight would not be able to fabricate it.
Principal Xu was quite well-mannered and was not annoyed by being interrogated. He just looked up before finally going upstairs and joked to himself: "This is the building? Tsk, tsk, Lanfang people really don't take money as money. The latest elevator
Real estate, you bought the whole building just to study?
House prices have risen very fast in the past two years. I remember when Gu Kun was studying six years ago, it was only four to five thousand per square meter. Now it has risen to seven thousand per square meter in Jing'an Plaza. The new apartments on the 12th floor have two units per unit.
There are two sets of ladders, a total of 48 sets, each set is 120 square meters, and one building costs 40 million."
The assistant to the principal explained awkwardly beside him: "That's less than one-tenth of the price of Gu Kun's car. Will he still use this amount of money as cash?"
Principal Xu laughed dumbly: "I don't pay enough attention to current affairs. I heard that Gu Kun only bought that car half a year ago, right? His car was replaced by a house. This kind of building should be able to buy more than 20 buildings - this whole community does not have 20
A building, enough for him to buy two and a half residential areas."
The group of people chatted and laughed and passed the observation of the female bodyguard at the bottom of the building. The female bodyguard pressed the elevator to take them upstairs. The female bodyguards were much more polite than the community security guards, because they knew that their employer also had guests coming, so they naturally did not dare to offend them.
guest.
"Dean Xu—oh no, Principal Xu, I haven't had a chance to congratulate you on your promotion." As soon as the two parties met, Gu Kun said hello without being humble or overbearing, while hinting.
It turns out that this Principal Xu was the dean of Haiyuan when Gu Kun first entered Jiaotong University.
The personnel transfer frequency in the university is generally one grade, one grade and five and a half grades every ten years. When Gu Kun entered the school, Dean Xu had already been in his position for a long time, so he was not promoted very quickly.
After Gu Kun graduated, he filled the vacancy from the dean to the vice-principal. After another three years, he has just become the principal.
The reason why he has achieved outstanding political achievements is also closely related to the fact that Jiaotong University has produced a large number of talents in recent years and has excellent performance indicators. First, the employment rate of students at Jiaotong University is extremely high, ranking first in the school for five consecutive years. In 1996,
Since the cancellation of 100% package allocation, the employment rate has still been maintained at 100%——
Although for a famous school like Shanghai Jiaotong University, even if the package allocation is cancelled, the vast majority of students can still find a job easily, but after all, other colleges cannot achieve 100%, and many are 97% or 98%.
The institute's ability to maintain a 100% guarantee of employment is inseparable from the expansion in recent years of Gu Kun, an alumni who is a major financial supporter - there are so many employment opportunities in marine engineering and shipbuilding engineering in Lanfang.
From offshore oil and various explorations, to the construction of cross-sea bridges, cross-sea embankment railways, to unprecedented architectural forms such as the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel, and even land reclamation to create the "Palma Atoll Palm Island", so
The demand for students in the Department of Ocean Engineering almost exceeds the supply, and Gu Kun helped the dean solve some problems for those who were ranked last.
And as long as the counterpart's performance is good, not only the personnel problem is easy to solve, but the funding problem is also easy to solve - the design institute affiliated to Haiyuan received large design orders from so many "wonder-grabbing" projects that Gu Kun spent money on.
, the design fees often amount to tens of millions of dollars each, which is almost as much as the Tongji Hospital next door.
In the late 1990s, this was considered a very important achievement for the university. After all, universities are not large-scale foreign exchange-earning enterprises. It is absolutely rare to be able to earn tens of millions in foreign exchange for the country.
The country’s education authorities are shouting every day to “integrate industry, academia and research, transform blood transfusion into hematopoiesis, and form a positive feedback loop.” How can it be formed? Isn’t it just to cooperate with big donors like Gu Kun to “transform scientific research results into real productivity?”
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All these benefits have made Haiyuan the undisputed most star department within Jiaotong University in recent years.
It can also be said that Dean Xu's eventual promotion to President Xu was largely due to Gu Kun's help, and everyone was particularly cordial and easy to talk to when working together.
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The two parties sat down separately as guest and host. Gu Kun asked the female secretary to serve tea and then got straight to the point:
"President Xu, I should have understood why I invited you here today. I want to build my country's first university in Lanfang. Of course, I will pay for it. I will also provide all the land and infrastructure needed for the campus. I will also provide the hardware." You don’t have to worry, you only need to provide the software, which is mainly the teaching staff.
You see what conditions you need for this matter and what procedures you should follow. If you need me to donate money to build momentum and seek dispatch for our brother units, you can just say so. We have all been working together for so many years and we are our own people."
Principal Xu took the tea, took a sip, and said slowly: "In principle, we can discuss it. Let me first understand your specific needs, such as which departments and majors need to be set up, how big the school is, and what the scientific research needs are.
Different needs have different difficulties in running a school, and the level of resources that need to be coordinated is also different. If it is just one or two departments, I might be able to help you with the city to make a decision, and even more likely, you will have to go to the ministry.
."
Gu Kun answered straightforwardly: "Then I'll tell you the truth, and I'm not afraid of making you laugh. We in Lanfang actually need very little school-running power. I just planned and inspected it at the beginning of the year. Within three years, the scale of our high school education will also increase."
It has only expanded to a scale of 1,200 to 1,500 people, which also includes vocational education such as vocational high school and junior college.
Therefore, after these people graduate from high school and go to university in three years, I think the quota of 500 people with Lanzhou nationality to go to university is definitely enough. If there are more, it will definitely lead to a decline in the quality of students. Moreover, I
We will also consider allowing the children of foreign workers to enroll in school under certain conditions."
Principal Xu smiled easily: "Only five hundred per class? That's easy to handle, but what kind of university is this? It's at most the size of a junior college or college. Large comprehensive scientific research universities in China recruit three to four thousand students a year.
It is common for people to have five or six thousand. If you are not comprehensive enough, partial to literature and partial to theory, then you can count on two thousand.
The Ivy League level in foreign countries takes the most elite route and generally costs two to three thousand a year. Harvard and MIT are special cases. These two schools are next to each other. Basically, each school has more than 1,500 students a year. Basically, Harvard is regarded as the liberal arts and liberal arts school of MIT.
The Department of Biology, MIT is regarded as 'Harvard Science and Engineering'.
Student Gu, please listen to my advice. Since you, Lan Fang, are taking the high-end route in everything, you either don’t do it or you don’t do it half-heartedly and are regarded as a loser in the junior college.”
Gu Kun raised his hand, indicating to the other party to listen to what he said: "Principal Xu, please be patient, I haven't finished speaking yet. The estimate just now was based on the population of Lan Fang's country entering higher education, so there is no room for improvement.
You also said that a world-class comprehensive scientific research university has to recruit more than 1,000 people per class. I think this is good. From the beginning, we will recruit 500 domestic students and 700 to 800 foreign students every year. This can also
Arts, sciences and engineering majors are slightly more complete.
In terms of majors, science should still be based on physics, supplemented by some chemical engineering. The specific applications are mainly ocean engineering and petrochemical industry, computers, civil engineering and water conservancy. Marine engineering and shipping in Lanfang are definitely easy to find.
There is also a huge gap in petrochemical talents needed for future oilfield development.
First-level disciplines such as astronomy, biology, pharmacy, mechanics, electronics, mining and metallurgy, and textiles will no longer be established at all. Talents with extremely specific needs will continue to be imported from China in the future. In terms of liberal arts, all pragmatic philosophy, sociology, and economics will be included.
No, you can keep the rest and just make something practical."
Principal Xu listened and nodded playfully, seeming to be secretly sighing that Gu Kun had such a clear sense of purpose and didn't waste money even if he had money.
He had to remind him in a joking tone: "Looking at your tone, if foreigners recruit 700 or 800 people, they are clearly targeting the wealthy students in our mainland. If this is the case, philosophy, society and economics can still be done.
It’s open, it’s just to deceive the rich anyway, the rich second generation will join the family business no matter what they study, so there is no problem that certain majors are difficult to find a job and are useless.”
Gu Kun shook his head: "I'm targeting students from the mainland, but I don't plan to do the bad-profit business of selling diplomas - otherwise, what's the difference between me and the three dogs from Canada, Australia and New Zealand? There is something to be done in the world of life.
No, a gentleman has a good way of acquiring wealth. There are so many ways of making money from nobles, local tyrants, and luxury small countries, but this is the only one I will not take. It involves my three views and personality."
Gu Kun deeply despises the Five Dogs of the Cloth family. Apart from his parents' sworn hatred, another reason is that his cultural genes are that of a traditional Chinese.
The Chinese have been involved in policy examinations for hundreds of years, and imperial examinations for 1,300 years, so righteous people have a deep disdain for selling diplomas. The Five Dogs of the Bu family are the origin of this bad money in Huaqia.
The figurine country. Especially in the early period, that is, in the 1990s
In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, studying abroad in Oceania, Germany and Japan was relatively disciplined. It depended on your grades, not money. Some English-speaking countries had already begun to do this. Later, those pheasant universities in Oceania were good at business.
also came over.
Of course, there are still a few good schools for Bugou after all. If you have the ability to get into Oxbridge, you will probably have to study well, not buy it with money. The second generation of rich people will just buy it and sit in college. The rest of the Dogs are just innocent people.
Gone.
Therefore, in the face of Principal Xu's malicious speculation, Gu Kun of course had to sternly draw a clear line between the money-making practices that he had despised all his life.
"It's true that I can recruit students from mainland China, but we can't get in by money. When we recruit students from overseas, Lan Fangguo will recognize the mainland's college entrance examination scores. If you don't get the same score, don't even think about coming."
Of course, if you do well in the exam, you need to have a little money, at least to pay for self-study. Lanfang is not a charity and will not pay for tuition fees for foreigners.