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The campus of Shenhai University is called Liyuan because there are thousands of lychee trees on the campus. …Small, every June when the lychees are red, many students of Shenzhen University will call their friends and invite friends to come to the campus to share the lychees and share their feelings.

However, Shenzhen University, which was founded less than a year ago, is far from being one of the ten most beautiful campuses in China decades later. At this moment, on the huge campus, new school buildings are still being built everywhere, and the red sand is flying all over the sky.

Since Shenzhen University moved to the new campus last year, the number of new students enrolled each year has increased to about 1,000. In another two and a half months, a new batch of students will be enrolled again, so the school must prepare enough dormitories and classrooms for the new students before the start of the next academic year.

The president of Shenzhen University, Professor Zhang Wei, was in Beijing for a few days, so a vice president surnamed Luo was in charge of guiding Li Xuan and Governor Ye to inspect the campus. In a corner of the dusty campus, thousands of lychee trees are green, and the green leaves are adorned with strings of red fruits.

This season is the time when lychees are ripe. Ye Ping saw that in the lychee forest, many teachers and students were busy picking fruits, so he walked forward with great interest.

"Governor Ye, President Zhang Wei proposed at the beginning of the establishment of Shenzhen University that students should pay part of the fees, work-study, and find their own way. Considering the actual difficulties of many students' families, the school specially left this lychee forest. , allocated to those students with financial difficulties to manage.

Each person contracts dozens of lychee trees to take care of them, and the money from the sales of lychees after picking is allocated to students in a certain proportion as labor fees for managing lychee trees, which are used to subsidize tuition and accommodation fees. This can not only solve the financial difficulties of students. It can also exercise everyone's ability to be independent! "Vice President Luo introduced.

From the founding of New China until the mid-1990s, domestic higher education was completely free. Especially in the late 1970s when the college entrance examination was just resumed. Not only do college students study for free, but the state also provides tens of yuan in living allowances every month! Although this reflects the superiority of the socialist system. But it is also a huge burden on the national finances!

Changing free admission to a scholarship and bursary system is also a direction for future reforms in higher education. The Shenzhen University was born in the Deep Sea Special Economic Zone, the most exploratory and innovative city in China.

"Your approach is worthy of recognition. According to the calculations of the relevant departments, it takes about 40 farmers a year's labor to train a liberal arts college student, and a science student needs more than 100 farmers' labor for a year. Earned!

These pillars of our country and social elites should have a more sense of urgency and a spirit of gratitude! To learn something in the future. Better return to the country and society! "Ye Ping shook his head and said.

"Principal Luo, have you found a market for these lychees? Our Dongfang Group is willing to buy all the lychees produced by Shenzhen University at the market price!" Li Xuan also expressed his support in a timely manner.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Li, this year's lychee harvest is bumper, and we are worrying about sales!" Principal Luo was also not polite.

Shenhai City was originally a lychee planting place. Every year when lychees are on the market, the local market is flooded with lychees grown by fruit farmers, so the market is not easy to find. Moreover, the fresh-keeping period of lychee is very short, and it is not like the large-scale low-temperature refrigeration technology adopted decades later. Litchi can be shipped to all parts of the country for sale.

A group of people inspected the construction site and continued west to the campus that was already in use. Ye Ping first visited a teaching building. Now is the final sprint time before the end of the semester. Every classroom is full of students who are intensively reviewing. Everyone can clearly feel the tense and busy learning atmosphere on campus.

"Governor Ye, this is approved by the People's Bank of China, the only bank founded by students in the country!" The group just walked out of the teaching building. Vice President Luo pointed to a sign with "Shenzhen University Experimental Bank" hanging in front of him.

So everyone walked into the bank with great interest to visit. The president of the bank was already waiting at the door, and the boy's face was still childish. The layout of the bank is indeed no different from that of an ordinary bank. The salespersons at the two counters were handling the business for the students who came to withdraw money.

"The campus of our Shenzhen University is also three or four kilometers away from the nearest Xinnan Town. If teachers and students want to withdraw money, they have to take a remote road. Go to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the town, which is neither convenient nor inconvenient. Safety!

After the school put forward the call to encourage students to work-study and participate in social practice, all the students in our finance class got together, and everyone felt that they should do something. So everyone thought about it, and finally proposed to open a bank on campus to facilitate teachers and students to withdraw money!

So, with the help and guidance of the school leaders, the students applied to the People's Bank of China, and on the other hand, they went to the major banks in Shenhai for an internship to experience the operation process of the bank! With the strong support of people from all walks of life, our "Shenzhen University Experimental Bank" finally officially opened at the end of February this year! "The student president introduced clearly.

"Customers deposit their money, and the bank will definitely pay them interest! So, what income did the bank you founded rely on to maintain its operations?" Li Xuan asked curiously.

Ordinary banks mainly rely on the profit difference between deposits and loans to achieve profitability. But the total number of teachers and students in Shenzhen University is still less than 2,000, and most of the students are not very rich. Therefore, the total deposit size of this small experimental bank should be very small, making it impossible to lend at all.

"We signed an agreement with the Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Except for retaining the necessary working capital, all other deposits will be transferred to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. They give us a slightly higher interest rate than personal deposits, and we rely on this interest rate difference. Not only can it cope with various operating expenses, but also successfully achieve profitability!

Mr. Li, Governor Ye, I wonder if I have the honor to invite you two to open an account in our bank too! "The president is clearly very familiar with his business.

"Haha, you little comrade, your business mind is very good. We are all responsible for pulling deposits! Then I will deposit 500 yuan to support it. I hope your bank can do better and better! At the same time, I hope By setting up a personal bank, all the students will work hard to accumulate practical experience and lay a solid foundation for future work!

This Mr. Li beside me. He is a real big boss, and you should think of ways to persuade big customers like him! "Ye Ping said with a smile, nodding his head, and didn't forget to tease Li Xuan at the end of the sentence.

Li Xuan has never been stingy about donating money and persuading schools. Since Governor Ye arrived at him, he also took out a checkbook from his pocket! But the amount he filled in needs to be carefully considered. If the amount he gave was too large, it would obviously go against the wishes of the leaders of Shenzhen University to train students' practical abilities.

"I don't know if your bank accepts cash checks from other banks, so I'll deposit 100,000 Hong Kong dollars first!" Li Xuan took a pen and filled in a number on the checkbook. Then he turned to the next page, and then filled in another number, "In addition. I will donate 10 million Hong Kong dollars to Shenzhen University in my own name to set up a special fund to encourage students to start their own businesses!"

Principal Luo couldn't help being surprised, this was not in the original plan. He wasn't sure whether he should accept the donation, so he simply looked up and asked Governor Ye and several leaders in the city to make up their minds.

"Since Mr. Li has generously donated money, the provincial government is not good enough. But our province's finances are also very tight, so we provided 500,000 yuan, and let Shenhai City also provide 500,000 yuan to jointly set up this fund!" Ye Ping said with his eyes. I silently asked the secretary of the Shenhai Municipal Party Committee who accompanied the inspection, and the other party nodded in agreement immediately.

This is definitely a surprise for Shenzhen University. Principal Luo took the check from Li Xuan very solemnly. At this moment, everyone else on the scene also focused their attention on the thin piece of paper.

Such large donations usually have a warm and solemn ceremony. Both parties solemnly signed the donation agreement. On the other hand, Li Xuan handed over the check hastily without even negotiating the specific regulations for the use of the donated funds.

This made everyone feel a little weird. It seems that the check handed by Li Xuan is not 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but 1000 Hong Kong dollars. Even 1,000 Hong Kong dollars is equivalent to a few months' income of an ordinary family in the Mainland. Few people are so casual!

Among the people present, perhaps only Governor Ye Ping understood the mentality of this "God of Wealth Li" best. 10 million Hong Kong dollars is relative to Li Xuan's total assets of more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars. It's just pocket money. Li Xuan was deliberately mentioned in his words just now, and he had no intention of digging oil and water from the hands of the richest man in the world.

From the west gate of Shenhai University, just across the road is Southern University of Science and Technology. Southern University of Science and Technology is definitely the most special university in China now, because it is not public.

Under the influence of Li Xuan, another well-known tycoon in Hong Kong, Mr. Bao Yugang, also handed over a check of US$20 million to the Ningbo-Bo municipal government in his hometown at the end of last year to help his hometown build a university. However, Bao Yugang is only responsible for paying the money, and is not as deeply involved in the preparation of the new university as Li Xuan.

Unlike other universities in China, which are managed by the education-departments of the provinces or the central ministries and commissions, the newly established Southern University of Science and Technology has the highest adjudication body being the school board.

The Deep Sea University across the road has an administrative level - the main-hall level. Therefore, the president and secretary of the school committee of Shenzhen University are actually state cadres who are on an equal footing with the mayor of Shenzhen University. But Southern University of Science and Technology broke this administrative system, and its president was appointed by the school board. If the board of directors is dissatisfied with the principal, the employment contract can be terminated at any time.

Of course, although Southern University of Science and Technology is somewhat unique, it is not prepared to be truly independent from the system. On the contrary, on the premise of ensuring that SUSTech has a certain degree of independence, Li Xuan instead hopes that the school can be recognized and accepted by the existing system as much as possible.

SUSTech's school board has 15 directors, including 10 non-executive directors and 5 executive directors. Among them, 10 non-executive directors have invited social celebrities from both the province and Hong Kong to serve as positions, so as to increase the social influence of SUSTech as much as possible.

The five executive directors who really have voting rights on major issues include a representative of the Ministry of Education and Education (usually the director of the Department of Higher Education and Education), a representative of the Guangdong-Eastern Provincial Government (usually appointed by the provincial education department). - Director of the Education Department), a representative of the Deep Sea Special Zone (served by the deputy mayor in charge of education), and Li Xuan himself and a socialite representing the Oriental Group.

Under this structure, the government actually holds more than half of the voting rights, so SUSTech is ultimately under control. Although SUSTech has broken the rigid administrative system of domestic higher education institutions, it does not mean that the school does not have a party secretary.

At the beginning, Professor Chen Bai hoped to build a university free from political and political interference, but in Li Xuan's view, this is completely inconsistent with China's national conditions. Adhere to the leadership of the Party, this is a red line that should not be challenged at any time!

According to the investment scale of SUSTech, even if it is not rated as a vice-ministerial level, it can at least become a full-level university like Shenzhen University. Therefore, if it is within the system, the secretary of the party committee of SUSTech should be a department-level cadre, under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Guangdong Provincial Committee and Organization Department.

However, the party committee of SUSTech is actually a dispatched agency of the Shenhai Municipal Party Committee. After all, department-level leaders can only be regarded as grass-roots cadres, but department-level leaders are already middle and senior national cadres with a certain right to speak.

The main responsibilities of the school party committee of SUSTech are to undertake external publicity, liaison with the central and provincial and municipal departments, and ideological construction and moral training for teachers and students, but do not interfere with the university's administrative management and academic research.

The university that Li Xuan is going to set up is more like a self-financing company that needs to work hard to achieve better performance. Instead of going to a lifeless office yamen, everyone has to make ends meet.

Li Xuan hopes that in ten or twenty years, SUSTech can grow into a world-class university. The competition among the top universities in the world is actually very fierce. For example, in scientific research, for the same hot topic, teams from several universities may conduct public relations at the same time.

In this race of speed, your previous fame means nothing. Maybe you came to a conclusion one day later than your competitors, but the honor already belongs to someone else, no one will care who is the second!

The globally competitive Southern University of Science and Technology is meaningful to Li Xuan, and can provide a solid backing for Dongfang Group in the future competition with other competitors. (To be continued..)