Rewrite the Technological Landscape

At the end of August, Meng Qian drank tea in Sun Xiaojing's office.

"I heard that the number of international students returning to China has reached a new high this year?"

Sun Xiaojing responded while making tea, "Well, it is mainly from the country of America. The funniest thing is that the country of America has recently seen the situation of overseas students returning to China. Public opinion has begun to say that the country of America is now training talents for China, and it may further target foreign students. .”

Meng Qian was directly amused by this set of remarks, "China has been cultivating talents for the United States for decades, what did we say, even a few complaints will be ridiculed by a group of people on the Internet.

Now that a little bit of talent has come back, they are in such a hurry. "

"Isn't this their current logic, saying that China takes advantage of them, without taking into account how much they have taken advantage of us in the past few decades.

Now that we are strong, it becomes us taking advantage of it, and it becomes training talents for us. Anyway, they must take advantage of them. "

"However, if the current situation continues to intensify, it will indeed not be a good thing for future international students." Meng Qian was somewhat worried about future international students.

Sun Xiaojing handed the teacup to Meng Qian, "Are you sure about tomorrow's meeting?"

"I'm not sure either. After all, there are indeed some people who are more conservative in their thinking." Meng Qian held the tea cup around with his hand, "You can go with me tomorrow."

"good."

On August 25, a meeting that was not open to the public was held in Yanjing. At the meeting, leaders from the Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Yanda Jiang University and other major universities were all present.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education first came to the stage to set a tone.

"After the Industrial Revolution, Britain began to emphasize the construction of British universities, helping Britain become an empire on which the sun never sets.

In the early nineteenth century, Germany created a research university to help Germany establish a strong talent base. Even the rise of Germany after World War II was closely related to German education, and the German research university education model has influenced the world for two hundred years.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, Neon Nation began to increase investment in university construction. Keio University in 1858, Tokyo University in 1877, Waseda University in 1882, and Kyoto University in 1897 trained a large number of top universities for Neon Nation. Talents helped the neon country to establish its status as a powerful Asian country during that period.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the United States transformed a large number of universities into modern research universities, which established a solid foundation for the influx of talents into the United States after World War II.

It can be said that the foundation of any country's strength is the strength of education, especially the strength of higher education.

For Huaxia in the past, the various foundations were not enough to support us to build a world-class university, but now Huaxia has the foundation, and it is even more urgent to build a world-class university.

The most basic thing is the issue of self-confidence. Now that our economy has developed and technology has also developed, our students still need to study abroad, which is a very blow to self-confidence.

So today we gather together to hope that everyone can express their opinions and discuss together how we should build a world-class university in Huaxia. "

"First of all, I want to say something." Qiu Yong, the president of Tsinghua University, raised his hand to signal, "We do not have a world-class university now, but judging from the construction process of world-class universities, it took the United States 100 years to go from zero to world-class universities. Universities have developed into the world's largest educational power, and in my impression we first talked about this issue almost twenty years ago.

I have communicated with many old professors in the United States, and also searched a lot of information. From the perspective of the level of the professor team, the basic scientific research environment and international scientific research results, we have at least completed the first 60% of the road, and at least have reached the pass. Wire.

So we can't be in a hurry. This matter must have enough time to settle, but our development speed is indeed very fast.

Then I want to put forward my point of view. I think the most important thing we should do now is to build a world-class professor team.

For colleges and universities, the level of the professor team basically determines the educational level of the school.

But now our domestic professor team is small and fine. We have cultivated a group of world-class professor teams in some fields, so I think we should spend more energy on this group of elite professor teams to consolidate their existence. Our world-class education level in these fields first establishes a group of world-class majors. "

"Will this lead to an increase in the deviation between majors?" Someone immediately put forward an idea.

"The investment in higher education is huge, and sometimes there is a problem of luck in cultivating a world-class professor team. We cannot expect to achieve large and sophisticated higher education in a short period of time. Of course, if the country is willing to spend a few dollars a year Trillions to promote the development of higher education, so I didn’t say that.”

Everyone laughed. Although everyone knows that the country is serious about paying attention to higher education, it is impossible to spend money to death. It would be great if it is really so cheap.

"Actually, even if you really spend so much money, some things may not be able to be spent." Hao Ping, the principal of Yanda University, continued the topic, "And when it comes to the issue of spending money, I think the salaries of teachers in our colleges and universities should be reformed. , Putting the previous set into practice now is to put it bluntly like being lazy.

For professors in public universities, what should be linked to salary performance bonuses must be subdivided at this stage.

We can't always build a laboratory and apply for 3 billion and get it approved. We have to discuss the professor salary reform plan every time. Since we want to build a world-class university, we must start from top to bottom. Change it at the end. "

What Hao Ping said is very straightforward, but this is a good sign. If you don’t talk about it and solve all the problems that should be solved, what should you use to build a world-class university.

"Since the issue of the salary of professors in colleges and universities has been mentioned, I just have a question to ask you." The leader of the Ministry of Education said, "If you want to compare the salaries of top professor teams, the gap between us and American universities is not small, but everyone also agrees. I know that the world-class universities in the United States mainly come from donations, while the income of our universities in China is very meager. This is actually a question we often discuss. Do we need to rely on state subsidies to make up for this in the long run? gap.

There is another question. From your point of view, why do our colleges and universities in China donate so little? Many alumni donate money and even the school leaders have to come forward to hate it. Is it simply because our education level is low? "

As soon as the leader finished asking this question, the leaders of many colleges and universities subconsciously turned their heads to look at Meng Qian who was sitting silently at the side. The leader didn't realize it all at once, and almost asked directly what you were looking at him for.

Meng Qian noticed everyone's eyes, and immediately adjusted his slightly relaxed sitting posture, coughed twice, "Ahem, that West Lake University received a lot of donations last year, almost five times that of Tsinghua University, and the donations from alumni are poor." accounted for close to 30%.

Some of you here know this statistic, and some don’t. Those who don’t know this statistic are somewhat shocked. After all, it’s only been a few years since Westlake University officially became a university, how many alumni can there be, and How many rich alumni can have just graduated?

Looking at the whys in the eyes of those who don't know the situation, Meng Qian took the initiative to say, "There are two main channels for donations in colleges and universities, one is alumni donations, and the other is social donations. Generally speaking, the alumni donation rate of prestigious schools is At 30%.

We want to discuss the issue of university donations. In fact, there is no need to make it too complicated. We just want to understand why everyone wants to donate.

I have donated money to many universities in the United States, and I have donated a lot. My donations to Harvard and Yale exceeded 100 million yuan. Harvard now has a library named after me.

Why should I donate? Is it because I admire those colleges and universities?

Of course, I do respect those colleges and universities, but the most real reason is to come to work in Dafeng Group for the people there.

As for why the alumni donate, I donate to Jiangda University every year. If you ask me why I donate, my first reaction is because I have money.

However, we can see that some alumni who do not earn much will also donate, and they are even more active than me. I asked them why, and there is an emotion of gratitude, but it cannot be denied that there is a need for fame, wealth and resources.

I have seen the list of donations from prestigious American schools. Business schools and liberal arts colleges have long accounted for more than half of the donations from American university alumni, and many of these donors are not very wealthy.

Therefore, in my opinion, donations from colleges and universities, whether they are social donations or alumni donations, do not need to be considered too noble, as they are essentially a matter of profit.

The amount of donations that our Huaxia colleges and universities receive every year is low, mainly because the benefits we can bring to others are not enough. "

It seems strange to talk about the temptation of interests in the face of education, but Meng Qian must put this matter on the table, otherwise, there will be no way to talk about the following things.

This Chinese New Year is a little drunk and I am trying to keep it updated.