The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 434 Pengcheng University
In the afternoon, Liu Tao and his colleagues went to Pengcheng University.

Pengcheng University is the only university in Pengcheng now. It was not until March 1983, 3 that the Guangdong Provincial Government approved the Pengcheng Municipal Government's "approval to establish Pengcheng University". The meeting decided that the school would be located in the Guimiao area of ​​Houhai Bay, and one square kilometer, or 8 acres, would be set aside as the campus area.

On February 1984, 2, the first phase of the construction of Pengcheng University officially broke ground. From September 7 to 9, administrative departments and departments moved from the temporary campus in the city to the new campus in Yuehaimen.

Not long ago, the Guangdong Provincial Higher Education Bureau approved Pengcheng University to recruit students in six provinces and cities, including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian this year.

This young university, which has Chinese and foreign language disciplines assisted by Peking University, electronics and architecture disciplines assisted by Tsinghua University, and economics and law disciplines assisted by Renmin University, can be said to be the strongest second-generation university in China.

Relying on Pengcheng, Pengcheng University will develop extremely rapidly in the future. Even thirty years later, Pengcheng University will not care whether it is a 985/211 or not!

Because at that time, even though it was not a 985/211, Pengcheng University was already very high in the national university rankings.

Pengcheng is already planning to build a university town here, of course this university town is still in the planning stage.

In the future, these college students will provide continuous intellectual support to the nearby Nanhu Electronic Development Zone, the slightly further Shekou Industry, and the entire Pengcheng Special Economic Zone.

In this regard, it can also be seen that Pengcheng's leadership team is indeed determined to forge ahead rather than stick to the old ways. At this time, there is already a complete and grand industrial plan for the entire western region of Pengcheng.

The leaders of Pengcheng introduced Pengcheng University. As early as 1983, Pengcheng University enrolled the first batch of students, but its operating conditions were so difficult at that time that it did not even have a campus. The classrooms where students had classes were borrowed from the office building of the newly established Pengcheng Television University.

Now, the initial construction of Pengcheng University campus has been completed, which can be said to fully demonstrate the Pengcheng speed!

At this time, new school buildings were still being built everywhere on the campus of Pengcheng University, and red sand was flying all over the sky.

With approval to recruit students in six provinces and cities, the school is now speeding up construction to prepare enough dormitories and classrooms for the new students.

"It's not easy to build a university. Pengcheng has spent a lot of time and money in the past two years." The leader of Pengcheng introduced, "It's not easy to train a college student. According to the calculation of relevant departments, the country needs to spend the annual labor income of 40 farmers to train a liberal arts student, and more than 100 farmers to train a science student!"

"I hope that these pillars of our country and social elites will have a greater sense of crisis and a spirit of gratitude, and when they achieve success in their studies in the future, they will give back better to the country and society!" The leaders of Pengcheng have high hopes for this university.

Liu Tao nodded and said, "Yes, it is not easy to train a college student, and the cost is very high! But it must be done. If society wants to develop, it must have enough talents, and talent resources are the most scarce resource!"

Everyone walked towards a teaching building with a dragon-shaped logo. The three big characters "Golden Dragon Building" were very conspicuous.

"This teaching building was built with a donation of 1000 million RMB from the Jinlong Computer Group. In gratitude for the donation, Pengcheng University named this teaching building 'Jinlong Building'," said the president of Pengcheng University.

The building has eight floors and four staircases.

There are two trapezoidal classrooms on each floor, each of which can accommodate two hundred people at the same time.

The other classrooms can accommodate 50 students.

At this time, every classroom was full of students who were reviewing intensively. Liu Tao and others could clearly feel the tense and busy learning atmosphere on campus.

In addition to donating 1000 million RMB, Jinlong Computer Group also donated a computer building, which has 16 computer classrooms and 800 Jinlong computers. However, the computer building has not yet been built and will probably have to wait until summer.

"This is the Pengcheng University Library, with a construction area of ​​23441 square meters!" The principal introduced the library, which had already been built. "All the library's operations are managed by computers. The 'Pengcheng University Library Information Management Integrated System' was developed for us by Jinlong Computer Group, which also trained the library staff."

This library was donated by China Automobile Group.

Liu Tao and others entered the library. The library had good lighting and was very bright. Many students were reading in the library at this time.

Students of this era, even when they go to college, although college life has become more colorful, they still study very seriously.

At this time, college is not a place to just waste time, and there is no such thing as "60 points are the best."

Because usual academic performance will affect the quality of assigned work.

After strolling around Pengcheng University, they went to the Southern University of Science and Technology, which was just across the street.

Southern University of Science and Technology is different from Pengcheng University. It is not a public university. Its nature is very special. It can be said to be the most special university in the country.

Because this is a donation of 10 billion RMB by Henry Fok to help build a university in Pengcheng. In addition to the construction of the campus, the rest of the 10 billion RMB was transferred to the education fund to maintain the operation of the university.

The future operation of Southern University of Science and Technology will not rely on government-allocated school funds, but on social donations.

Just this year, Henry Fok raised 100 million RMB in donations for the Southern University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong.

It can be said that the richest university in China at present is the Southern University of Science and Technology!
Unlike other universities that are under the management of provincial education departments or central ministries, Southern University of Science and Technology has its board of directors as the highest decision-making body.

In other words, the presidents, senior officials, vice presidents, etc. of other universities are cadres, but at Southern University of Science and Technology, they are appointed by the school board. If the board is not satisfied with the president or vice president, it can terminate the employment contract at any time.

The entire Southern University of Science and Technology is still under construction and has not yet started recruiting students.

Pengcheng and Guangdong Province have great admiration for Ho Ying-tung. It can be said that Ho Ying-tung has always done a very good job in this regard.

In recent years, he has been traveling to the mainland more frequently, investing more frequently, and is also keen on public welfare undertakings, such as education and sports.

Liu Tao secretly sighed, this is only Ho Ying-Tong. If it were someone else, it would not be easy to run a university, let alone implement a school board system, which is simply treasonous in the Chinese education community.

If 30 years later, a wealthy person wanted to run a university, the difficulties and resistance he would face would be enormous.

The leaders of Pengcheng introduced that Southern University of Science and Technology will not recruit students this year, but will enroll the first batch next year, and the first batch is expected to enroll 1000 people.

1000 people may not seem like a lot, but for today's universities, it is not a small number, especially since the Southern University of Science and Technology only recruited students from Guangdong Province in its first batch.

(End of this chapter)