Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1751 The American Dream

For a long time, in the eyes of Chinese people, there are five famous universities in the United States. They are Stanford University, Harvard University, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California, Berkeley.

In China, universities are basically not open to the public, and there is a strict security system. If outsiders who are not teachers and students of the school want to enter, they must obtain the permission of the school leaders, or have a letter of introduction from the relevant department, otherwise, they will not be able to enter at all. .

But in the United States, the situation is quite the opposite. Most universities in the United States have no walls or even gates. Some universities do have gates, but the gate is symbolic. Outsiders can enter the campus at will, but some The building requires a card to enter, and the campus is only fully open.

In addition, the educational concepts of the East and the West are completely different. The education in Europe and the United States is pure education, but the education in China can allow ordinary people to cross classes. , it means that there will be a higher class and a more decent life in the future. It is precisely because of this that Chinese people attach great importance to education. Talent, one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, thus leading the whole family to rise.

But in the United States, a high degree of education does not mean that it can improve the social class. Even some doctors and masters can only work as handymen or waiters in supermarket restaurants when they cannot find a better job. This is also a very common thing. People will feel shabby.

In accordance with Liang Mengsong's instructions and the company's reimbursement of all corresponding expenses, Li Jiali made a plan to visit prestigious American schools early in the morning. In addition to her alma mater, the University of California, Berkeley, there are 4 other prestigious schools. List.

Because I am in New York, the first stop of this visit is New York University.

New York University, referred to as "NYU", is a world-renowned private comprehensive research university located in New York.Consisting of 18 colleges and research institutes, New York University has become one of the largest private non-profit higher education institutions in the United States, and it is also the only private prestigious school in the heart of New York in the United States.

Unlike other universities, New York University has a fixed campus, and the entire New York City is the campus of NYU.

From Washington Square in Manhattan to downtown Brooklyn, where the purple flag flies is the NYU campus.

You can even say that New York University has been fully integrated with this city, where you can't tell where is the campus and where is the urban area.

New York University has always been the first choice of many international students because of its unique geographical location.

Most of the earliest Chinese students who came to the United States to study abroad were the first to enter New York University. It was after seeing the extremely developed and prosperous Manhattan in the United States that most of the international students finally stayed in the United States.

Because the campus is too large, Li Jiali specially formulated a three-day tour process for Cheng Qingyan, including various campuses of New York University and famous buildings in the university.

On the first day, we visited the library of New York University.

NYU has abundant library resources, among which Elmer Holmes Bobst Library is the largest among NYU's 10 libraries.Located in the south of Washington Square Park, nearly 1 people visit it every day. [space]
This visit also opened Cheng Qingyan's horizons. What I have to say is that compared with the university environment in China, the degree of openness here is much higher, and the various public facilities are also very advanced and luxurious. What is shocking is the strong academic background of this school. The school has a total of 36 Nobel Prize winners (ranked 17th among global universities and 11th in the United States), more than 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, and more than 30 Oscars. Winner of the Academy Award, 19 winners of the Medal of the American Academy of Sciences, multiple Abel Award winners, Emmy Award winners, and Tony Award winners.

So far, no expert or scholar in China has won a Nobel Prize.

In the eyes of Chinese people in the 80s and 90s, the Nobel Prize was raised to a level almost mythical. Some people even proposed to cultivate several Nobel Prize winners with the whole country, but at New York University, there are more than 30 Nobel Prize winners. Award winners, so that people have the illusion that New York University is enough to beat the Chinese education circle.

In addition to the high level of academics, the beautiful environment and various high-tech facilities of this campus also shocked Cheng Qingyan. Although he has been to the romantic capital of Paris before, the urban construction and advanced level of Paris are not as good as those of New York. If New York is a luxurious metropolis full of steel and concrete forests, then in Cheng Qingyan's comparative evaluation, Paris is like a fringe area between urban and rural areas. Apart from the beautiful scenery, everything else is not at the same level at all.

So much so that after visiting the library of New York University, Cheng Qingyan seemed to have the idea of ​​settling in New York.

People go to high places, and water flows to low places. In areas with a better living environment and more advanced technology, people always yearn for more jobs, more income and more opportunities. This is why many young people are squeezed out. An important reason why the head wants to gain a firm foothold in the first-tier cities.

But for Cheng Qingyan, she is not short of money, and the United States is a paradise for the rich. If you have money, you can enjoy many things that you can't enjoy in China. The luxury goods from all over the world here are not currently available in the mainland. of.

On the other hand, Cheng Qingyan also hopes that her child will receive a better and higher level of education in the future out of the nature of hope for success and maternal love, so that he can win at the starting line from an early age. With what he has learned in the world's top schools, he will Take your family and business to a higher height.

This is a visit to New York University, which seems to have opened a door for Cheng Qingyan, and she is more and more looking forward to the next visit itinerary.

In addition to New York University, she will visit four other American universities under the leadership of Li Jiali, and the last stop will be the University of California, Berkeley, where Hu Zhengming will personally receive her and arrange for Cheng Qingyan Meet senior leaders at UC Berkeley.

At the same time as Cheng Qingyan started her trip to the United States, Duan Yun also led Yang Shoucheng to visit Shanghai and Shenyang one after another.

Compared with Shenzhen, Duan Yun has basically completed the construction of the automobile factories in Shanghai and Shenyang, and has received the first batch of assembly equipment for the Swedish Volvo car production line at Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, covering a total area of ​​1 square meters. Mu's new factory area is breathtakingly large...

(End of this chapter)