The rejuvenation of a great nation: from educated youth to national treasure scientist

Chapter 125 His achievements determine the fate of the country

1978 is destined to be an extraordinary year.

This year was also a fruitful one for Xiao Renming. He obtained a total of 4 breakthrough scientific and technological achievements, two of which were related to color TV production lines and the other two were related to domestic chip production lines.

Xiao Renming's important achievement in chip production lines is the invention of a wireless remote control system to control the production line.

Because Xiao Renming had achieved fruitful results this year, he was called over by the principal Yang Dezhong one day in early November.

"Professor Xiao, congratulations! You have been nominated as a candidate for the academic committee of our school." Yang Dezhong said as soon as he saw Xiao Renming.

Xiao Renming was overjoyed when he heard this.

These academician members are actually the academicians of the Academy of Sciences in later generations.

Becoming a member of the academic department is a life goal that all scientists pursue.

It is extremely difficult to be elected as a member of the academic department. One must have outstanding scientific research results and contributions.

Xiao Renming was previously a second-level professor.

This is the ceiling for the title of professor.

If you go one step further, you can only be a member of the academic department.

Xiao Renming had never thought before that he might be nominated by the school to be elected as a member of the academic department.

It has been more than 1957 years since the last election of academicians in 20.

This year, under the strongest push from the scientific community, it was decided that new academicians will be elected every two years.

This year's by-election will be unprecedented in scale.

After all, 20 years have passed, and many academicians have passed away by then.

"Thank you, Principal." Xiao Renming thanked Yang Dezhong.

He felt mixed emotions at this moment.

Xiao Renming thought about it and realized that it had been just over a year since he resumed work.

But who could have imagined that in just over a year, he actually contributed four or five major inventions.

Without the help of his son-in-law, he would not have achieved so many academic achievements.

Yang Dezhong smiled and said, "Professor Xiao is so polite!"

"You must try your best this time! Try to stand out in the selection!"

"The competition pressure in this election of additional faculty members is still very high."

"Our school has nominated 10 candidates to participate."

"I calculated that if five of them could be elected, it would be considered a huge success."

"Yes! Also, talk to Comrade Haoran and try to win his support."

Xiao Renming was a little surprised: "Principal, I'm afraid Haoran can't help much, right?"

"Although he has made fruitful academic achievements, his influence in the scientific community is not great."

Yang Dezhong smiled and said, "Who said he has little influence in the scientific community?"

"Professor Xiao, do you know that when developing the chip production line, more than half of the academic committee members joined Haoran's research team!"

"When they were working with Comrade Haoran, they all received favors from him."

“The old comrades may have had some prejudice against Haoran at first, but in the end they were all convinced by him.”

"Almost all the academic committee members have a very high opinion of Comrade Haoran. What do you think? If Haoran says a few good words for you, will it work?"

The current method of electing new academicians is basically to evaluate and select based on the scientific research results of the candidates submitted by various units.

The selection method is that the existing academicians vote by raising their hands.

Only if more than two-thirds of the people raise their hands in agreement can they pass the selection and become new faculty members.

Xiao Renming thought about it and realized that it was true.

He quickly waved his hand and said, "Principal, this is a bit disrespectful."

"I'd better run for election based on my own scientific research achievements. If I can be elected, I will be elected. If I can't be elected, it doesn't matter."

Xiao Renming's old face turned a little red.

I have already benefited too much from my son-in-law.

It would be too embarrassing if one had to rely on a son-in-law to run for election as a faculty member.

If you really do that, you will inevitably be pointed at and criticized by others behind your back.

Yang Dezhong laughed and said, "Professor Xiao, you are a little too thin-skinned."

"You don't know that candidates for faculty committee members will definitely go to meet the judges one after another to win their favor!"

"Some people wear out their shoes just to get elected as faculty members."

"And you, you obviously have such a good condition, if you don't take advantage of it, wouldn't that be stupid?"

Xiao Renming sighed and said, "I think that since they are top scholars like academic committee members, they should select those with real outstanding abilities, and not cheat and rely on connections to get promoted."

"Principal, I'm sorry, I can't betray my heart."

Yang Dezhong gave a thumbs up: "Not bad, not bad! Professor Xiao, your principles make me feel ashamed..."

……

In the office of President Liu Xianchao of Beijing Institute of Technology, Wang Haoran is talking to Liu Xianchao.

"Haoran! This year's election of faculty members is the first in 20 years!"

"There are more than 20 teachers in our school who are qualified to be elected as academic committee members this time."

"This is all thanks to you!"

Liu Xianchao was very excited and could hardly hide his excitement.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Principal, this is mainly the result of the teachers' own efforts."

Liu Xianchao shook his head and said, "If you hadn't led our school's teachers to do two large-scale projects in succession, allowing many teachers to gather enough scientific research results, it would be impossible for so many people to be qualified to be elected as academicians."

After saying this, Liu Xianchao glanced at Wang Haoran and said with a little regret: "Haoran, you are actually qualified to be a member of the academic department."

"But you are too young, and you haven't even graduated from college yet. However, based on your achievements, you can easily be elected as a member of the department when you are in your 40s."

Wang Haoran smiled and waved his hand, saying, "Let it be as it is."

"I personally don't really care."

Wang Haoran is indeed too young now, not even 21 years old. No matter how fruitful his achievements are, if he forces himself to run for the position of academician, it will make the old gentlemen feel uncomfortable.

It would be better to focus on scientific research first and help the country become stronger, which would give people a fulfilling sense of achievement.

……

The election of additional academicians for the Longguo Academy of Sciences was finally put on hold for the final vote in mid-December 1978.

Prior to this, the results and information of each candidate had been reported to the review committee.

After repeated comparisons and screenings, as many as 210 people finally stood out and had to go through the voting process at the conference.

As long as two-thirds of the academicians raise their hands in favor, the scientist voted for can be elected as an academician.

This is also the main reason why the shortlisted scientists will try their best to visit all the academician members and try to make themselves familiar to them.

Before the final vote by show of hands, Fang Yi, president of the Academy of Sciences, held a special meeting.

Several vice presidents attended the meeting, including Hua Luogeng and Qian Shanqiang.

Fang Yi smiled and said, "Comrades, this year is the first time in 20 years that we are selecting academic committee members. The competition is very fierce!"

"There is a 210% margin in this selection. A total of 42 people will make it to the final, and scientists will be eliminated in the end."

"If you look closely at the resumes of these scientists who made it to the final stage, they are all very impressive and have achieved quite good results."

"Everyone, please share your opinions. How should we make the final selection?"

"Is it a simple show of hands, where as long as two-thirds of the faculty members support it, it will be passed directly, or is it a scoring system, where the scores are totaled and ranked, and the top four-fifths are directly elected?"

Hua Luogeng said: "I think the scoring system may be fairer, and the results will not be known until the end."

Qian Shanqiang frowned slightly and said, "But many people criticize the scoring system, saying it is prone to manipulation."

"So, I personally think that voting by raising hands is more clear at a glance."

Hua Luogeng smiled and said, "It would be difficult to get two-thirds of the people to raise their hands and vote in favor, right?"

“Perhaps in the end there will be few candidates who can meet this standard and it will be difficult for them to be elected.”

"Before we held this meeting, I received many requests for help."

"Some people even came to my house to give me gifts in exchange for asking me to take care of them. This is very bad!"

Fang Yi sighed and said, "I also find it incredible. Why would so many people try to get in on the election of academic committee members?"

"This kind of atmosphere is very bad. I don't like it."

"I think we should introduce a system to veto those who want to be elected as faculty members by relying on personal connections! Perhaps only in this way can we achieve true fairness and justice!"

Qian Xuesen smiled and said, "It's a bit late to talk about this now."

"I support Comrade Hua Luogeng's idea. Let's proceed according to the scoring system!"

"We have also formulated relevant scoring criteria. I think scientists who play a significant role in national defense should be given extra points!"

“In addition, the owners of groundbreaking achievements that have a significant impact on the country’s economic development should be given priority in being selected as academicians.”

Fang Yi coughed lightly and said, "Then let's vote by raising our hands to see which method has more support."

The participants voted by raising their hands, and ultimately more people chose the scoring system.

The final selection of academicians adopts the judges' scoring system.

Fang Yi breathed a sigh of relief after deciding the selection method.

He smiled and said, "To be honest, if we were to say which scientific worker has made the greatest contribution and achieved the most results in the past period of time, it would definitely be Comrade Wang Haoran!"

"It's just that this young comrade is too young. He's less than 21 years old and is nominally still a student at Beijing University of Technology. He is not qualified to participate in the evaluation."

After listening to this, Qian Xuesen shook his head and said, "In fact, scientists should speak with their results!"

"Don't use academic qualifications, age, or experience to exclude young people!"

"I think our behavior is a bit absurd."

Qian Shanqiang also echoed, "That's absolutely right!"

"It's not easy for our country to produce a top talent. Comrade Haoran is so young, but he has already made great achievements that determine the fate of the country! And there are more than one, so we really shouldn't exclude him." Fang Yi nodded and said, "That makes sense."

"However, Comrade Haoran did not declare it this time."

"We are about to start the final selection process. I don't think it's a good idea to talk about this matter any further, right?"

Qian Xuesen said: "Let's forget about it this year."

"But I think that on the day of the selection, we should invite Haoran to the scene and let him give a speech to the judges."

"This is also a way of showing your love for talent, isn't it?"

Hua Luogeng and others all agreed with this.

The final selection meeting will be held on the morning of the next day.

During the selection process, all faculty members will be present to participate in the scoring.

Of course, people from relevant national agencies will be on site to supervise the entire process to ensure that the entire selection process complies with procedural justice.

Wang Haoran is still very busy these days.

He wants to work with Guo Weiyang, serve as Guo Weiyang's advisor, and promote the implementation of the entire chip industry chain in the Yangtze River Delta.

He also needs to continue to consider the next research direction and write a project application report.

Of course, the most important thing is that he also has to take care of Xiao Lijuan.

Xiao Lijuan's due date is approaching.

Always be prepared to go to the hospital to give birth.

On this day, after he accompanied Xiao Lijuan to the hospital for a prenatal check-up, he went to his father-in-law's house with her.

Lin Yaling was already preparing lunch.

Seeing her daughter and son-in-law coming over, she happily asked them to sit down.

While preparing lunch, Lin Yaling mentioned that Xiao Renming was going to select academic department members.

Lin Yaling said: "The selection will start soon, and I don't know what the result will be."

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "Mom, I think I can definitely be elected! No bad accidents will happen."

Lin Yaling sighed and said, "That's not necessarily true! The competition this year is quite fierce."

"It is said that a total of 210 people made it to the final selection stage."

"Twenty percent of the candidates will be screened out in the final stage."

At this point, Lin Yaling blinked and said a little embarrassedly: "Haoran, you have a wide network of contacts. It would be even better if you could help your dad say hello."

Wang Haoran smiled. After all this time, is he asking him to help say hello?

He thought to himself, I am actually just a young man. Although I have some relationship with the old scientists, it is not to the extent that they will give me face just by saying hello, right?
But my mother-in-law has made the request.

Wang Haoran naturally agreed.

"Mom, I'll try my best to call the faculty committee member I know and talk to him about this."

"But I can't guarantee that it will work."

Lin Yaling's face lit up and she said, "The president of Peking University, Yang Dezhong, has told your father everything. He said that as long as you come forward, the academic committee members will definitely give you face."

Wang Haoran said, "Then I'm afraid I have to hurry up, because the selection will start tomorrow morning."

As we were talking, there was a knock on the door.

Wang Haoran went over and opened the door, and saw that the person coming in was none other than Feng Aiguo, the security officer of Beijing Institute of Technology.

"Comrade Haoran, the people at the Academy of Sciences called you but couldn't find you, so they sent someone to our school to look for you and gave you an invitation." Feng Aiguo said as he handed Wang Haoran an envelope.

Wang Haoran thanked Feng Aiguo and invited him to sit in the house. Feng Aiguo said goodbye and left.

Wang Haoran closed the door and returned to the house. Lin Yaling asked curiously, "What's going on?"

"Why would the Academy of Sciences send you an invitation?"

Wang Haoran smiled and opened the envelope and said, "Let me take a look."

He opened the envelope and saw an invitation inside. The invitation invited him to attend the meeting to elect new academicians of the Longguo Academy of Sciences at 11 am on November 12, and he was also asked to prepare a speech at the meeting.

"Mom, please take a look at it yourself." Wang Haoran handed the invitation to Lin Yaling after reading it.

Lin Yaling was overjoyed after reading it: "Oh! They want you to appear at the original election meeting!"

“This is quite an honor!”

"But this is what you deserve! Haoran, your current scientific research results are much better than 99% of the scientists in the country."

"There are only a few senior scientists in the scientific community who are better than you."

Lin Yaling was referring to veteran scientists such as Qian Xuesen, Yu Min, and Deng Jiaxian.

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "I don't understand what you mean by inviting me over specifically."

Xiao Lijuan smiled and said, "What else could it be? I'm sure everyone feels that holding a science conference and electing new academicians is such a big event, and without you there, something is missing."

Lin Yaling said, "When you go there, go find those faculty members and say a few good words for your dad."

"Your father is a taciturn person. He thinks it is too shameful to ask for mercy."

"I heard that all the candidates who made the final list of additional candidates were recruited through connections!"

Wang Haoran nodded and said, "Mom, don't worry! I will help my dad to ask those department committee members I'm familiar with to take care of him."

……

The next day, after Wang Haoran had breakfast, he went to work and was busy for a while.

It's almost the end of the year again.

He has to hurry up and arrange all the important matters.

In addition to scientific research, according to the idea of ​​President Liu Xianchao, Beijing Institute of Technology will organize a special assessment for Wang Haoran this year. As long as Wang Haoran passes the assessment, he will be allowed to graduate from undergraduate program as an exception and enter the postgraduate training sequence directly.

This matter is not a big deal, but it is somewhat important to Wang Haoran.

At around 8 o'clock in the morning, Beijing Institute of Technology sent a car to take Wang Haoran to attend the Academy of Sciences' academician election meeting.

Before seeing Wang Haoran off, Liu Xianchao couldn't help but give Wang Haoran a reminder: If you have the chance, help canvass votes for the teachers in our school who are running for faculty committee members, say some good things about them, etc.

This made Wang Haoran a little overwhelmed.

Because it is impossible for him to speak well of so many people at once.

In addition, he was somewhat disgusted by the behavior of interceding for others and influencing the final selection results.

When Wang Haoran arrived at the Academy of Sciences, it was already past 8:50 in the morning.

Wang Haoran got out of the car, and to his surprise, the president of the Academy of Sciences, Fang Yi, came to greet him in person.

Fang Yi is in charge of administration, and he himself is not a famous scientist.

Therefore, it was normal for him to come and pick up Wang Haoran in person.

"Hello, Dean Fang! I'm so sorry to ask you to come and greet me in person." Wang Haoran shook hands with Fang Yi.

Fang Yi waved his hand and said with a smile: "Comrade Haoran, you are too polite. I am here to serve you. Thank you for taking the time to attend this academic committee election meeting."

After a few pleasantries, Fang Yi invited Wang Haoran to go to the lounge to sit down and rest for a while.

In the lounge, Wang Haoran met several senior scientists.

Hua Luogeng, Qian Shanqiang, Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian and others were waiting for him.

In fact, Wang Haoran had met these people more than once before.

This time, seeing each other again felt even more intimate.

These giants in the scientific community are actually very peaceful people.

Qian Shanqiang held Wang Haoran's hand and said, "Haoran! I think you should sign up for the election of academic committee members this time!"

"In the past year or so, you have become the brightest rising star in our country's scientific community!"

Wang Haoran quickly said modestly: "Comrade Shanqiang, you are too kind. I am still young and need to learn more from my predecessors and improve myself. As for being elected as a member of the academic department, there is no rush for this matter."

Qian Xuesen nodded with a smile and said, "Comrade Haoran's noble character is worthy of our learning."

"But don't refuse the honor you deserve!"

After talking for a while, Wang Haoran took the opportunity to report to several bigwigs on the details of two major achievements he led the team to achieve.

In particular, the contributions made by important members are highlighted.

This is equivalent to speaking well of these people.

Wang Haoran also plans to praise the important members of his team one by one when he speaks later, in order to help these members make a deeper impression on the judges.

He wants the judges to give more points to his important partners.

When Wang Haoran was reporting, several big names in the scientific community were also filled with emotion!
Because they all know what the domestic color TV production line and the domestic chip full industrial chain production line mean to Longguo!
These two achievements can be said to have helped the country open a door to a bright future in terms of industrial modernization development!

The bosses all believe that the important members of Wang Haoran’s scientific research team should indeed be rewarded!
Because these people are the backbone of national scientific research!

Wang Haoran chatted with several bigwigs for half an hour, and then it was time for the selection meeting to begin.

At the beginning of the selection meeting, Wang Haoran was invited to the podium to give a speech.

In fact, it is almost just a work report.

As soon as he came on stage, the faculty members present gave him warm applause.

Wang Haoran glanced at the academic department members present and found that more than half of them were acquaintances who had participated in his project research cooperation.

Moreover, they all have a good relationship with Wang Haoran.

In fact, no scientific researcher who has worked with Wang Haoran has said anything bad about him.

Of course, those academicians who have never worked with Wang Haoran also recognize Wang Haoran.

There is no way to deny it, because Wang Haoran's scientific research results are so strong that even the academician thinks they cannot compare with him.

Wang Haoran did not say too much nonsense, and mainly followed his original ideas. During his speech, he reported some of his own scientific research work and praised important scientific research partners. Among them, he focused on introducing the achievements of the partners who participated in the selection of academician members.

This is to plead for these partners.

Wang Haoran didn’t know whether doing this would be useful.

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