rebirth of change

"Your school has changed a lot, everything has a brand new look," Chen Kangjie admired sincerely looking at the exquisite garden paths and the towering multi-functional library in the campus.

"It's really not small. I heard from some old professors that these situations were unimaginable before. This year, three professors in our school were shortlisted for academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering. In addition to the two previously hired, our school will soon There are five scholars at the academician level." Chu Xiang proudly told the new progress of the school.

"It's really made a lot of progress. I heard that two professors from the Normal University and the School of Medicine have also been shortlisted." Chen Kangjie had also heard this kind of newspaper news, but his tone was much calmer, not as excited as Chu Xiang's.

The reason for such a huge change is inseparable from Chen Kangjie's huge investment.In the past, these colleges and universities were relatively backward in the field of scientific research. The key was the lack of both talents and funds. All research had to strive for funds upwards. The total amount is small, and the money that can be obtained is relatively small, which limits the in-depth development of colleges and universities.

In the past few years, with the strong support of Chen Kangjie, several major colleges and universities in the province have basically been completely reborn, with a completely new infrastructure and a great improvement in the teaching staff.For example, the School of Automotive Engineering of Qianzhou University, after co-constructing with Tengfei Automobile Company, can receive tens of millions of yuan in research funding every year, and its automotive engineering laboratory is also the most advanced in the country. This time, Qianzhou University was shortlisted Among the candidates for academicians and experts, one is from this college.

Although this is reflected in a huge improvement in scientific and technological strength, Chen Kangjie is not very interested in this matter. The reason is that he does not think that being elected as an academician of the two academies can explain anything.

Academician is just an honorary title, not a job in itself, but our current system basically administrativeizes academicians. Once elected, they can enjoy many, many benefits, and their income will increase exponentially. This is not a big deal in itself. Wrong, but coupled with the government's hype, academicians have become resources in Vanity Fair.At present, almost all the academicians in the two academies are old men. Many of them are no longer engaged in basic research. They participate in various social activities all day long and receive expensive activity fees.These academicians have too many part-time jobs, and many of them are too busy with their own jobs.In addition, the selection of academicians is greatly influenced by the government. For example, candidates are basically recommended by various provinces, universities affiliated to ministries, major government scientific research institutions, central ministries and commissions, and nominated by some academicians. As a result, its fairness is often criticized and doubted. , so Chen Kangjie does not think that the significance of academicians is really as great as people think.

Especially in today's rapid development of high-tech, many scientific and technological progress projects are promoted by enterprises. The strength of scientific research centers of many large enterprises is not inferior, and they are closer to the market, but it is extremely rare to hear about the scientists and researchers of these enterprises. People are included in this selection at the national level.Since the Industrial Revolution, almost all important scientific and technological breakthroughs have been driven by the internal motivation of the people.The invention of the airplane, the invention of the automobile, the invention of the telephone, and even the advancement of the Internet and the innovation of application software.

It is true that most of the selected academicians are engaged in basic research, which is the foundation of a country's high-tech development and is indispensable.It's just that in this group, it is extremely rare to see young scientists, which is a bit surprising.In fact, it is these energetic scientists who really promote basic research, and even those academicians have obtained most of their scientific research results when they were young.

In response to this unusual phenomenon, Chen Kangjie discussed a rule with President Yang at the Southern University he organized.That is, the teachers of the school can participate in various awards, but strictly speaking, they are not allowed to work part-time outside the school. Even if it is very necessary, the number of part-time jobs is at most one.Moreover, 80.00% of school professors' time must be spent on teaching and scientific research, rather than frequent off-campus activities. Teachers can only participate in academic activities related to their research fields for less than 20.00% of their time.

In general universities, the scientific research fees applied by ordinary teachers are generally in the hundreds of thousands, and those that can reach millions are already considered a large amount.However, it is not uncommon for scientific research projects led by academicians to obtain tens of millions of funds. This is the reason why academicians are very sought-after in many institutions.However, this situation does not exist in Southern University. The school has an academic research committee. Teachers can apply for projects to this committee. Obtain hundreds of millions of project research funds every year.Based on this alone, those scholars who really want to engage in research and teaching can be firmly grasped, and they can concentrate on research and teaching without distraction.If it is those so-called "bricks" who like to confuse Vanity Fair, they are not welcome.

Of course, at present, Southern University is neither a ministry-affiliated university nor a provincial-owned university. It is completely a private university. This positioning also makes the teachers of the school lose many opportunities for selection. At least the academicians of the two academies have nothing to do with them.Fortunately, the rich and powerful universities have left the government aside, and they have not followed the government's route in their own professional title evaluation. Currently, the school has hired 96 professors, 124 associate professors and more than 96 lecturers.Among the 24 professors, seven of them were not even associate professors before. They were only lecturers in other universities. Published [-] high-level SCI papers, and has made great achievements in the field of materials science. It is estimated that this person is the youngest "professor" expert in the country. Southern University, their position is a real professor, and the salary is similar to other Professors are no different, even though they are only lecturers among the professional titles recognized by the country, Southern University doesn’t care about that much. They use their own system to evaluate and feel that these seven people have reached the standard of professors in terms of knowledge and professional quality. That's why he hired an exception. This is probably the only precedent in the whole country, and it completely bypasses the country's complicated procedures and time limit.

This new wind has brought a breath of fresh air in the field of teaching and scientific research in colleges and universities across the country, and some farsighted educators are also trying some bold changes.That is to say, under this kind of atmosphere, others were hired as a professor after getting a Ph.D., but Chen Kangjie was hired as a visiting professor by a university before he graduated from a bachelor’s degree, which has become a rare honor both at home and abroad. good story.

At the side entrance of Qianzhou University, there is a row of bicycle rental shops. Each shop has dozens or hundreds of bicycles, and various, eye-catching tandem bicycles are placed at the door to attract people.The bicycles rented out by these shops are not expensive, 20 yuan a day for a single person, and [-] yuan for a couple.Because it is close to the famous Hualinxi Scenic Spot in the provincial capital, every weekend, not only students from surrounding universities will come here to rent bicycles for outings, but many citizens will also come here to pass themselves off in this low-carbon and healthy way. weekend time.

Hualinxi is a small river, only about three meters in the narrow part, and only about ten meters in the wide part.It's just that this river is very clear. If the water depth is less than one meter, you can basically see the bottom of the river, which is almost blue in green.The stream meanders from west to east, forming a ten-mile beach and two small waterfalls in the middle.A Hualinxi Park was built on Hualinxi a long time ago, and there is a fee of five yuan for the entrance fee.However, people prefer to play outside the park, especially the nearby Golden Mile.The reason why there is such a name is different from our secular understanding.The reason is that there is a long road paved with stones and stone slabs on the bank of Hualin River, with tall plane trees on both sides of the road. In autumn, the leaves of the plane trees fall down one after another, and the ground is golden. The bleak beauty full of harvest feeling can make every visitor intoxicated.

Another example is that if you come here in spring, the rapeseed flowers on both sides of the river are another beautiful scene. When your eyes are intoxicated by the large flowers of butter oil, the bursts of flower fragrance sent by the spring breeze will make you obsessed.In summer, some people will use the green hills as a barrier to go down to the cool river beach water to cool off.What makes people feel comfortable is that several local families on the river bank provide facilities and ingredients. People who are tired from playing can sit leisurely in the shade of the trees and have a barbecue by themselves among the green mountains and green waters.

Decades ago, Mr. Ba Jin, a famous Chinese writer, took his wife, Ms. Xiao Shan, to spend their honeymoon here. Coupled with the fact that couples accounted for a considerable proportion of people visiting here, some people praised Hualinxi as the My country's first love river.

He came here as a guest, Chen Kangjie didn’t steal the limelight at all, let Chu Xiang perform well, and obeyed his arrangements for everything, anyway, Chu Xiang’s family is now at the level of small landlords, and their egg roll shop has developed into a A small food factory.It’s just that when choosing bicycles, Chen Kangjie suggested that the young couple should choose a yellow two-person couple’s bicycle, but the shy Chu Xiang didn’t do it anyway, and asked each of them to ride their own, so he called it a “bike”. "Threesome".

What Chen Kangjie and the others are going to visit today is the several kilometers long Golden Avenue, which is very popular with young people.Now that autumn has just begun, the leaves have not yet fallen one after another, but from a distance, those books are already golden, showing its dignified and enchanting beauty against the green background of the Hualin River in the form of a belt.