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Chapter 927 Condolences to Overseas Students

If you want to describe the current Chinese students studying in the Soviet Union, there are only two simple words.

Comfortable!

Like all Soviet students, Chinese students receive 5 rubles a month as a stipend.

A meal with meat and vegetables in the school cafeteria, plus hot tea and dessert, costs 5 kopecks.

The medical system of the Soviet Union is that all citizens in the Soviet Union, including long-term resident overseas students or foreigners, enjoy free medical care, and even meals in hospital are provided by the state.

Then go to the store to shop for goods before returning home to visit relatives on vacation, such as woolen coats, fox scarves, ice skates, etc., and the prices are outrageously cheap!
All the family members and friends of these foreign students in China are wearing Soviet-style coats, which is amazing!

However, with the turmoil in the local situation and the extreme shortage of local supplies, many international students actually found business opportunities and began to "do business" part-time.

They bought goods from China and brought them to the Soviet Union to sell. Once they changed hands, they made nearly ten times the profit. They lived a very comfortable life.
It is much better than those students who wash dishes in European and American countries.

Therefore, many of the losers in the Soviet Union were brought up by these overseas students, carrying Chinese textile products and household appliances on their shoulders, and reselling them by using their familiar markets and interpersonal relationships.

Although these businesses can only be regarded as small personal troubles, and there is no concept of trade at all, it is this most primitive mode of operation that has opened the door to large-scale "trash trade" between the two countries.

Gradually, a group of so-called "international losers" appeared on the international trains from Beijing to Moscow.

They regarded passenger cars as freight cars, and when international trains entered the territory of the Soviet Union, they resold the goods they carried along the various stops along the Siberian Railway.

Over time, this kind of "bad business" has formed a business market with a certain scale.

Some people began to hire people to deliver goods from China, and they were responsible for picking up goods at the station, and then selling, exchanging money, and wire transfers.

Although everything looks so good, some aspects are not convenient.

Such as contacting family members.

Because it is very difficult for foreigners to apply for international long-distance calls, you have to go to the telephone office first, and then you need to fill out a form, specifying the country number of the call, the estimated time of the call, and then wait for an hour to several days to connect.

If the speech involves privacy, there will be countless listeners wearing earphones on the line. It is very likely that a blunt Chinese voice will interject during the speech: "This is the Trans-Baikal International Bureau. Time is up, please hang up."

If a Chinese person applies for an international long-distance call, gets connected a few days later, and ends up talking in dialect on the phone, the consequences will be serious.

After talking on the phone, you will find that when you are standing outside the phone booth, he will politely invite you to Lubyanka, which is the KGB headquarters, and repeat what you just said in standard Chinese.

If you don't know Mandarin, it's okay, the KGB will teach you right away...

Since the resumption of government-sponsored study abroad in China in 1972 and the expansion of public-sponsored study abroad in 1977, more students have turned to European and American countries to study.

When Su Chen and the people from the Education Office met the international students of Moscow University, they actually didn't know how to describe the feeling in their hearts.

Because many of them immigrated after earning money, and later, almost no one did scientific research.

But for students who go abroad, how can they not look forward to a good life when they see the colorful world outside?

In the auditorium of Moscow University, many foreign students studying in this place came, both men and women, there must be hundreds of them.

"Hi, everyone." Yang Chuxian said, "It's a pleasure to meet you all..."

Balabala said hello, and everyone applauded warmly to welcome them.

Yang Chu shifted the topic to Su Chen, "You may have heard of this classmate, but you have never seen him in real life, so today I will bring him to introduce you.

He is Su Chen, an international student who studied at Harvard, and is called the "Oriental Wizard" by the Americans..."

As soon as they heard the name and nickname, the students naturally knew it immediately.

Because Su Chen's deeds were spread in many universities, it was like a firefly in the dark night.

This kind of close contact with a person who exists like a great god has made countless foreign students feel extraordinary at the first time.

The applause was more enthusiastic.

After finally waiting for the applause to subside, Su Chen said, "Thank you all for your applause. I can feel your enthusiasm. Thank you."

Yang Chu smiled and said: "Now you are the target that many international students are trying to catch up with. Is there anything you want to say to the students?"

Su Chen glanced at him, and everyone looked at him eagerly, because most of the time, everyone needs encouragement and affirmation from others.

Especially the encouragement and affirmation of those excellent people will make people feel very comfortable.

"Actually, I have a lot to say." Su Chen said, "But because of the limited time, and it is impossible for me to fill our classmates with chicken soup every time I go to a school."

"Student Su Chen, what does this chicken soup mean?" A short-haired female student raised her hand to ask.

"Chicken soup means to say something soft, warm, and full of positive energy to someone. It is also a placebo, so that people can be inspired."

Su Chen explained with a smile, "It's useless to talk too much, so I'll borrow what I said at Harvard, I'm here for the vastness, I'm here for the future."

He looked at the female classmate who asked the question, "This classmate, what's your name?"

"Liu Hong."

She is not tall, with shawl hair tied neatly in a bun, and she is cautious in every word she speaks.

"Student Liu Hong?" Su Chen seriously recalled the name, "You major in environmental protection, right?"

Liu Hong suddenly looked surprised, and nodded quickly: "Yes."

"Are you planning to keep exploring in the field of environment and ecology?" Su Chen asked again.

Liu Hong didn't know how to answer for a while, feeling that this person's thinking was jumping.

I can't keep up with the train of thought.

Su Chen went on to say: "Since everyone knows my name, they should also know the fire plan that I have been advocating in China. I know that many of you want to stay after seeing the colorful world outside.

I can't and can't make irresponsible remarks to you on this point, because feelings and dreams sometimes make people difficult to choose. "

"I have been to many countries, such as Japan, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, etc., and I deeply feel the gap between our country and these countries.

So I have been trying my best to find ways to let more people study abroad, learn technology, and narrow the gap between us and these countries. "

Including the people from the Education Department, everyone listened quietly to what he had to say.

"I don't know how many people will choose to return to China in the future, but I will continue to promote these things, and I am willing to protect the prosperity of China with my youth."

Su Chen said, "Because many projects with research value are initiated abroad, when my country hopes to actively participate in these projects, some countries that can take the lead refuse China to join in order to prevent the proliferation of technology.

And they didn't want my country to join in the first place, but they hypocritically asked you to submit an application, asked you to show all your cards and then rejected you.

What I have always advocated is that we must have our own core technology, and we cannot always hold the principle of borrowing. If we get used to it, what will we do when others don’t give it to us?
We Chinese are no worse than these foreigners. We can do what they can do, and we can do what they can't do, and we can do it better than them! "

When he finished speaking, the applause immediately sounded like thunder.

Although Su Chen said that he didn't plan to pour chicken soup on these foreign students, he didn't know what to talk about other than this. Chicken soup is just chicken soup, at least it can cheer these people up.

Give condolences, visit the dormitories of these international students, and discuss how to help overseas students study and live abroad better in the future.

Then we had dinner together, took a photo or something, and then Su Chen went to visit the ruins of Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow.

As for why you came to this university...

(End of this chapter)