In the afternoon, the celebration meeting ended, and Lu Ming still stayed at the foundation headquarters.
In a conference room, members of the three major departments of the foundation, the Project Review Committee, the Project Review Committee, and the Project Execution Department, were present. Secretary-General Lou Yiyun was also present.
Lu Ming looked at the crowd and said: "For the Science and People's Livelihood Fund, how to put the money into practical use is always the biggest problem. I don't think the traditional approach will work. The money will not fall into the hands of real people.
to find new ways out.”
At this time, Song Xiuyuan, the head of the project review committee, said immediately: "I fully agree with Chairman on this point. How do we select our academicians? They have to be recommended by their units. It is impossible for scientists who offend others to a large extent.
I was elected, so the rest is all about building connections."
Song Xiuyuan continued: "In addition, the salary of academicians and universities is linked, which means that universities have to build relationships and make deals, but the deals are not money, but indirect money, such as funding from organizations like my foundation.
Jin, the biggest reason for the current academic misconduct is that the funding received by the school is linked to scientific credibility."
Song Xiuyuan: "This has caused the current allocation of scientific research resources to be monopolized by elite universities. Those who do not engage in innovation receive the most funds. I will not say which universities are well-known. However, some universities that engage in independent innovation receive the most funding resources.
The reason for the least allocation is that they are allocated according to level. What level of treatment do you have and what level of treatment does he have? If you are all focused on competing for ratings and titles, how can you have any energy to do real research? "
Lu Ming covered his mouth with one hand and couldn't help but nodded, but did not speak.
Song Xiuyuan immediately said: "Chairman, I believe that the foundation's funding should not be given to institutions, but to individuals. For example, one quota per year should be given to scholars who are truly at the forefront of the field."
Hearing this, Lu Ming said concisely and concisely: "Go on."
Song Xiuyuan: "My foundation should refer to the practices of Europeans and Americans in this regard, such as the Chinese NSF Foundation. How do they allocate their money? It is not given to schools and other institutions, but to people, so you can see
Universities in the country are rushing to recruit people. If a university recruits a heavyweight scientist to their school, the funding for this scientist will go to that university."
Song Xiuyuan: "For example, my foundation gives a scientist a grant of 100 million per year. If HKUST poaches the scientist, the 100 million grant will go to HKUST. If NPU poaches the scientist, the grant of 100 million will go to NPU.
Only in this way can we truly value and respect talents, which is very important."
Scientific research resources, in the final analysis, scientific research resources are money. The Science and People's Livelihood Fund is rich, super rich, so it has the right to allocate generous scientific research resources. Now it has more than 160 billion on its books, and there will be more in the future.
When the grant is anchored to a scientist, the school or the institution must pay attention to it even if it doesn't matter. Because you don't pay attention to him, he will be poached, and the grant from the Science and Livelihood Foundation will follow him.
In the end, both men and money were lost.
For those scholars who don’t like or are good at building relationships and are really focused on learning, the Science and People’s Livelihood Foundation will give them a certain amount of funding. They have scientific research resources, so they don’t need to build relationships, and where they are
The organization must also value him, truly value and respect talents.
At this time, Song Xiuyuan hesitated and said: "But in this way, we have offended a large number of people. Those who rely on their connections to monopolize relevant resources must hate us to death."
After hearing this, Lu Ming said calmly: "I don't dare to offend anyone easily now. There are still a large number of people who dare not offend me. I also dare to offend a large number of people. If I am afraid of offending others, then you are the only one."
Don’t even think about it, as long as you don’t offend everyone.”
Song Xiuyuan was at a loss for words. Lu Ming was now able to provide social security pensions every year, Guo Jia's organization earned astronomical amounts of money, and had the ability to harvest wealth from overseas capital markets. No one dared to touch him on this point.
Speaking of power, Lu Ming has now become a powerful force in his own right.
At the end, Lu Ming immediately made the decision: "That's it. The foundation's funding is anchored to people and follows them. The funding is only anchored to leading academic leaders who are at the forefront of a field. No.
We don’t give money to the leaders in the field. For example, if I want to invest in materials science and find out who the top three competitors are in this field, we will fund them, and there is no need to consider those outside the top three.”
Lu Ming firmly believes that breakthroughs in basic scientific research can only be made through the elite route, because the truth is in the hands of a few people, and the human sea tactic to achieve breakthroughs from 0 to 1 in the field of cutting-edge science has proven to be unworkable.
"You should formulate a solution for the amount of funding in each field as soon as possible and then submit it to the council."
After hearing this, Lou Yiyun nodded: "Understood."
Different academic fields require different funding scales. For example, fields such as mathematics and logic actually require very little funding, while fields such as physics and astronomy require huge funding. How much budget does it take to build a top astronomical observatory?
It is in billions.
At this time, a project review committee member present at the meeting flipped through the materials report and reported: "Currently, the foundation has noted that it will fund five major categories of basic science including physics, biology, chemistry, astronomy and earth sciences."
After speaking, he handed the materials to Lu Ming, who opened them and took a rough look.
Five major categories of subdivisions.
Physics includes particle physics, condensed matter physics, optics, field theory, quantum mechanics, etc. Chemistry includes inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, structural chemistry, polymer chemistry, etc. Biology includes botany, animality, and cells.
Biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, etc.; astronomy includes astronomy, radio astronomy, cosmogony, etc.; earth science includes atmospheric physics, geodesy, hydrology, oceanography, land science, space science, etc.
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Lu Ming closed the materials and nodded with satisfaction. They were all major subdivisions of basic science.
The Science and Livelihood Fund is here to find some academic leaders in these subdivided fields, and then confirm them through the project review committee. At that time, the foundation will allocate corresponding funding funds to provide them with basic research.
Just because the money is allocated does not mean that it will be ignored. The foundation must have a project execution layer to track the progress and establish a traceability mechanism. The foundation must know where and when each money was spent, and the finance and taxation department must know
There is reconciliation.
Lu Ming put the materials aside and said, "Then announce the subject areas that have been determined to be funded."
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After the meeting, Lu Ming left the foundation headquarters, where the basic scientific research fields to be funded and the foundation's funding rules were initially disclosed. The disclosure showed that the maximum funding for a single project could reach 1.5 billion yuan.
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On that day, it caused an uproar in the academic world and major universities. A large number of people could not sit still. Some people were very excited, while others were extremely unhappy.
The funding for a single project can reach 1.5 billion. In the securities market, perhaps 1.5 billion of funds thrown into a listed company like Tiansheng Holdings can only increase the increase by three to five points.
But this does not mean that 1.5 billion is a small number. There are many universities in China whose total expenditure on scientific research funds is only a few hundred million per year. As soon as this incident came out, it is no wonder that the academic community and major schools became restless.
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On that day, many universities began to pay attention to the leaders in the basic science fields disclosed by the Science and Livelihood Foundation, and began to pay attention to them.
Human thoughts arise spontaneously.
In universities where scientific research funding is tight, they attach great importance to it. As long as they can recruit people to their schools, they can get a huge amount of funding from the Science and People's Livelihood Foundation.
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(Ps: Let’s update two chapters today. The tone is too high and it’s hard to write. The huge debt I owed before was finally repaid with only the last two chapters left. It will definitely be repaid this month!)
