Rebirth of science and technology academic master

Chapter 111: Entering the Trap (Sixth Update)

Shuimu University

"Academician Qin, I have to say that you are really an excellent negotiator!" Qi Haifeng from FAW said helplessly.

This time, he was sent by Mr. Xu to Shuimu University to negotiate with Qin Yuanqing, hoping to obtain good conditions, such as jointly owning technology patents for R\u0026D results and Qin Yuanqing.

But when it came to technology patents, Qin Yuanqing glared and said that if FAW met this condition, there would be no need to discuss it, and he would go directly to SAIC for cooperation.

SAIC, that is FAW's competitor. How could FAW watch helplessly as SAIC gained an advantage? Even if it costs one billion to lose, this possibility cannot arise.

The results are self-evident, and Qin Yuanqing's plan was ultimately implemented.

"Mr. Qi, you and FAW will definitely not suffer from this cooperation!" Qin Yuanqing said with a smile.

Just kidding, if it wasn't for the purpose of avoiding being arrested and sliced ​​for research, Qin Yuanqing could just exchange the relevant technology directly, why would he need so much trouble?

Subsequently, Shuimu University held a grand signing ceremony. Qin Yuanqing and President Qi signed an agreement on behalf of both parties. After the agreement was signed, one billion funds were transferred to the laboratory's special account.

The signing of this agreement was like a bomb exploding.

The doctoral students and postdocs who were still hesitant at first no longer had any worries and submitted their resumes to Qin Yuanqing. The entire Department of Automotive Engineering of Shuimu University was in a panic.

Since the establishment of the Department of Automotive Engineering in 1980, after thirty years of development, the Department of Automotive Engineering's vehicle engineering, power machinery and engineering are all national key disciplines. It has the National Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy Conservation and the Automotive Research Institute. It is an important base for high-level and high-quality vehicle and power engineering technology and management talents. It is also an important place for scientific research and technology development of vehicle and power engineering in my country.

In the past ten years, the Department of Automotive Engineering has won 1 second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award, 16 Senior Official Science and Technology Progress Awards, 12 other awards, and 27 authorized invention patents. It has undertaken a total of 217 scientific research projects of various types, with annual scientific research funding exceeding 60 million yuan.

It can be said that the Department of Automotive Engineering still has a lot of talents. Qin Yuanqing's laboratory received 1 billion scientific research funding from FAW, which suddenly exceeded the 10-year scientific research funding of the Automotive Engineering Department. Who wouldn't want to go? Who doesn’t want to earn a high salary?

Even though Qin Yuanqing set the threshold for doctoral students and above, there are 70 doctoral students in the Automotive Department, and Qin Yuanqing received 60 resumes, in addition to 2 professor resumes, 4 associate professor resumes, and 6 postdoctoral fellows.

Qin Yuanqing screened 20 resumes, and each laboratory has 10 researchers, including 1 associate professor, 9 doctoral students, and an accountant. The annual salary for the two laboratories alone is 20 million.

After recruiting people, Qin Yuanqing felt relaxed. The finance department handled financial matters. Although his funds were not state funds, the accounts had to be kept clear. In any case, the school occupied 10% of the office space, and some You still have to figure things out clearly.

On September 10, which was also the first day when the laboratory was launched, Qin Yuanqing held a meeting in his office. Looking at his 21 subordinates, Qin Yuanqing was very satisfied. From now on, he was no longer a mere commander.

"Hello everyone, my name is Qin Yuanqing. It's a pleasure to work with you all!" Qin Yuanqing said with a smile: "I believe you all know what you are going to do next! That is to develop a 6AT automatic transmission and a car chassis!"

Everyone nodded slightly, and then everyone introduced themselves. Qin Yuanqing divided them into two laboratories, with an associate professor as the deputy leader and nine doctoral students. Qin Yuanqing divided 6AT into four research groups: hydraulic torque converter, planetary gear, hydraulic pitch system and hydraulic control system, basically each group of two people. The automotive chassis laboratory is also divided into four parts: traditional system, driving system, steering system and braking system.

The function of the car chassis is to support and install the car engine and its components and assemblies to form the overall shape of the car, and to receive the power of the engine to make the car move and ensure normal driving.

After appointing deputy team leaders of the two laboratories and assigning each person's tasks, Qin Yuanqing asked the deputy team leaders to draw up a list of instruments and material orders to be purchased, as well as their respective work processes within a week.

On this day, Qin Yuanqing asked everyone to clean their respective offices and go through the onboarding procedures. Before the dinner, Qin Yuanqing waved his hand and said that this month's salary would be paid out first. He did not adopt the mode of paying out the salary on the 15th of the next month. Wages are paid on the first of the month. As for tax avoidance, he does not exist here. He pays as much tax as he needs to!

No one expected that they would be paid on the first day of work, and they were all very happy. After all, this first month's salary was more than what they earned in a year. Not all of these doctoral students were When you have a family, you all have to support your family.

"It was indeed the right thing to change jobs!" Everyone suddenly felt that coming here was indeed the wisest decision. Some people directly took photos of their salaries and uploaded them to Weibo and Moments. I don't know how many people were envious of them.

For dinner on this day, Qin Yuanqing also chose a high-end hotel. If he wanted the horse to run, he had to feed the horse. If he wanted the horse to run fast, he had to let the horse eat good grass.

In this regard, Qin Yuanqing has never been stingy.

Although they are all older than him in recent years, the youngest financial officer is 26 years old, which is 6 years older than him. The others were seven or eight years older than him, and even the two associate professors were more than ten years older than him. But Qin Yuanqing still convinced them with his sincerity!

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"Principal, Comrade Xiao Qin has gone too far. How can we do this? How can we carry out research in the future and lead people if we do this!" An academician from the Department of Automotive Engineering opened the first day of dinner in Qin Yuanqing's laboratory. At that time, I went to the principal's office and complained.

One million annual salary!

They directly let 20 people change jobs in their department, including two associate professors. Moreover, now the Department of Automotive Engineering has a personal obsession, and it is listless during scientific research. Sometimes when chatting, they even express disdain for the low salary and talk about Academician Qin. There are millions of annual salaries offered there, and some people even forwarded those people's salary slips.

The chairman has said that if the people's hearts are scattered, it will be difficult to lead the team!

Academicians and professors in the Department of Automotive Engineering now deeply feel the truth of this sentence.

But it is simply impossible to ask them to increase their salary. Their entire department receives about 60 million in scientific research funding per year, and their professor-level salary is only around 100,000 per year. How can they improve the salary for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows?

The principal said gently: "Old Wang, there's nothing I can do about this. You should have heard that Academician Qin's laboratory funding was brought in by himself. To be honest, the school only provides a place. , Academician Qin also thinks it is convenient to be in school, otherwise he can also set up a laboratory outside!"

"I see, the department needs to think of a way to do this on its own and see if it can get some scientific research funding from car companies. It doesn't need to be as much as one billion, but five or six billion is fine!" the principal mentioned. a feasible solution.

Academician Wang was speechless.

If he could get scientific research funding, would he still need to come to the principal's office to complain in person? Those car companies are stingy and stingy, even if they can count on tens of billions. They can only get a few million in scientific research funding. Not bad.

Looking at the back of Academician Wang leaving, the principal looked thoughtful. It seems that the school has to change its development ideas. If it continues like this, relying solely on national education funds and scientific research funds, Shuimu University wants to become one of the top ten universities in the world. It's not easy.

The principal stood up, picked up the writing brush, and wrote the three words "Industry, University, and Research" heavily on the paper!

The combination of industry, academia, and research is the synergy and integration of different social divisions of labor in scientific research, education, and production in terms of functions and resource advantages. It is the docking and coupling of upstream, midstream, and downstream technological innovation. In famous European and American schools, industry, academia and research have achieved very good results. The school is responsible for education and scientific research, and the enterprise is responsible for production. The school relies on scientific research funds and patents to gain profits and invest in new scientific research, forming a good cycle.

Since several years ago, Chinese universities have been continuously exploring and have achieved certain results, but to say how great the results are, there is no such thing.

It is the first time for Shuimu University to obtain 1 billion scientific research funds from enterprises like Qin Yuanqing, and it also sets a record for Chinese universities.

The principal knows that this road is not easy, but no matter how difficult it is, we must take it. Otherwise, the state's funding for running schools can maintain the stable development of schools. However, in today's society, teachers' demands for remuneration are getting louder and louder. It is impossible to delay indefinitely, otherwise the talents in colleges and universities will probably be lost to enterprises. Poached away for poaching.

There is no doubt that cooperating with enterprises and obtaining scientific research funds from them will be a feasible path.

Automotive research and development topics can be like this, and chemical industry, construction, machinery, electronics, etc. can also be tried.

Principal Gu is not just an administrator. He is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has long been engaged in research on the relationship between the components, structure and performance of functional materials and the microscopic design of materials. He knows very well that there are never shortcuts in basic research and technology research and development. You need to spend a lot of money and go step by step in a down-to-earth manner.

As for textbooks, as someone who has been there, Principal Gu knows very well that materials obtained from the West have to be questioned. No one knows where Westerners will bury a trap for you.

Just like Shuimu University, many textbooks are compiled by professors from their own schools. They want to ensure the accuracy of knowledge and have practiced it themselves, rather than simply translating foreign articles.

It's just that basic research and technology research and development are not that easy. They have long cycles, slow results, and even high risks of being wasted, so not many people in the company are willing to invest.

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