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Mr. Qian smiled and said, "You are right to worry."

"Now, even the foot basin has an international award, and I hope it can be comparable to the Nobel Prize."

"We can't fall too far behind."

The Foot Basin International Award was established in 1981 by its International Science and Technology Foundation.

This award was established with a fund donated by a large consortium of 50 billion US dollars, which was approximately 1200 million US dollars at the exchange rate at the time. The interest of 20 US dollars was used to award the prize every year, and the prize was given out once a year.

The scientific research fields it rewards are very general, and it is mainly intended to reward those around the world who have made original breakthroughs in the field of science and technology and have made outstanding contributions to the prosperity and peace of human society.

Although there is no clear award area, it actually awards everything within the scope of the Nobel Prize.

The award has not yet been given out.

It is said that preparations are currently in full swing.

Wang Haoran gave a thumbs up and said, "Teacher Qian, I didn't expect you to know all this."

Mr. Qian said: "The Foot Basin has been preparing for this award for many years. I have been following it closely."

"However, the people of Jiaoben are also quite aggrieved. They don't even dare to really raise the banner of competing with the Nobel Prize!"

"If they dare to challenge Nobel, they will probably be punished by their master."

Wang Haoran nodded repeatedly.

He thought that it was rare for Mr. Qian to have such an understanding in this era.

It can be seen that he is not a person who studies hard and does scientific research without paying attention to what is happening outside.

Wang Haoran said: "The prize money in this plan of Foot Basin Man is quite a lot."

“It’s not much different from the Nobel Prize.”

"So, I think, if we want to make a big splash, attract the world's attention, and compete with the Nobel Prize, our prize money must be large enough."

Yu Min asked: "How much do you think is appropriate?"

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "I think each winner should get at least $100 million!"

"That's about 200 million RMB."

"Only in this way can we attract scientists and artists from all over the world."

Yu Min frowned and said, "According to your idea, if eight awards are given out every year, wouldn't that cost 8 million RMB?"

"Will you, Pangu, pay for this?"

Wang Haoran puffed out his chest and said, "We'll go out if we want to!"

"We set up a prize fund and use this much money every year to advertise our Dragon Country around the world, to increase the favor and admiration of the world's elites for us. I think this is worth it, isn't it?"

Mr. Qian nodded and said, "If 1600 million per year can help increase our influence and popularity, it will definitely be worth it."

“I think this is definitely worth doing!”

Wang Haoran smiled and asked, "How about you, Mr. Qian, Mr. Yu, and all the other teachers, sign a letter of appeal with me later?"

Yu Min, Qian Xuesen and others all agreed.

Everyone was talking when the leader walked in.

Everyone was busy greeting the leader.

The leader also chatted with everyone with a smile.

At this time, Mr. Qian told his leader about Wang Haoran's idea.

After hearing this, the leader waved his hand and said, "Of course we can do this!"

"1600 million per year will help us increase our influence around the world, and Pangu Technology will also benefit from it! After all, you will become the center of attention!"

"If this award is established, my suggestion is that the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Literature, the Academy of Arts, etc. form their own separate award committees. After the awards are announced, we hold a grand award ceremony every year!"

"Let's work together to make it the world's number one award!"

Wang Haoran then talked about another idea of ​​his: to establish a series of academic journals and connect them with the award field, so as to attract the best academic works to be published in Longguo first.

The leader thought that Wang Haoran’s idea was also very good.

This will make Longguo a center for academic and scientific research.

The leader said, "Why don't we learn from them? For our domestic art awards like music, sculpture, and painting, we can set up an international award to directly reward artists from all over the world. I think that's a good idea."

Wang Haoran smiled and said, "The leaders are really far-sighted! In this way, we can have a large number of awards for foreign artists at the same time, and we can use the awards to influence their creations."

Wang Haoran thought of his previous life. Domestic artists were often led astray by foreign trends. For example, squinting eye makeup could become the graduation design of students from many higher art institutions. It was really magical!

The other side tried to tame our artistic elites and demonize our art.

Fortunately, we survived.

In this life, because of Wang Haoran, Longguo has been developing by leaps and bounds in many scientific and technological fields since the late 70s. In addition, we also attach great importance to ideological education and public opinion dissemination. The current situation is generally much better.

The leader said: "Comrade Haoran, please write a plan. We need to hurry up and do this!"

"Yes! We will try to complete the preparations this year and give out the first awards ceremony next year!"

Wang Haoran naturally agreed without hesitation.

After the New Year tea party, Wang Haoran went back and started working on the plan.

He wrote this plan very thoroughly.

It involves almost the entire Pangu Award from its preparation and establishment to the award criteria, recommendation of candidates, final voting to select the winners and even the award ceremony.

There are eight awards in total for the Pangu Awards. Each award is jointly selected by the relevant national ministries and Pangu Technology Group to select 100 judges to work on the award. The judges are not necessarily industry experts, but can also be famous social figures. Each judge can receive a considerable labor fee.

For science awards, there is only one criterion for winning: scientific breakthroughs and major scientific discoveries that benefit all mankind.

The criteria for the literature and art awards are: the work has outstanding influence and artistic appeal, composes a grand epic of the great era, describes the voice of the vast majority of the people, and is recognized by the vast majority of the people.

Since we have to completely part ways with the art standards of the lizard party, we must follow the mass line. Only what the people like and recognize is a truly good art form. The so-called art that has a weird and bad taste and makes people feel sick after reading it can only be thrown into the garbage dump.

After Wang Haoran finished writing his plan, he showed it to his leader.

After reading it, the leader said with appreciation: "It is already very comprehensive, and we can implement it directly."

“Neoliberalism is really harmful to people!”

"We must put things right and set a better standard for science and art awards for the world."

Now that the leaders have agreed, things will be easy.

The relevant national departments have specially established a Pangu Award Preparatory Committee.

Wang Haoran is the main person in charge of this committee and he is responsible for coordinating everything.

However, he just assigned the tasks and let others do them, and he was the one who was responsible for checking them.

This matter is progressing at a fairly fast pace.

By the eve of the Spring Festival, various award committees and academic journals had completed their preparations.

Wang Haoran felt that the time was ripe to publicize this award.

So, on February 2, he personally presided over a grand press conference.

This press conference invited reporters from mainstream media around the world. In order to expand publicity, all foreign journalists stationed in China were notified and invited, and sources were asked to take the initiative to disclose information to major media around the world before the press conference.

The main content of this revelation is: Dragon Country will launch a world-class science and art comprehensive award with a single prize of over 200 million RMB (100 million USD)! The total prize amount of this award will reach 800 million USD (1600 million RMB) per year!
This award will be comparable to the Nobel Prize, and will be awarded to scientists, writers and artists from all over the world.

New York Times reporter Catherine also received the tip.

This news is actually quite important.

But this is a positive thing, it is good for scientists and artists because the prize money is high enough.

If you report it directly, it would be equivalent to doing positive publicity for them and speaking well of them.

Of course, the New York Times would not do this.

Today's Western media's prejudice against dragons has become a bit hysterical.

They really can't stand to see any good in us. They are only willing to report our negative aspects. Even if there is no negative aspect, they will find some even with a magnifying glass.

When Catherine received this revelation, she wondered from which angle she could discredit this matter?

If it cannot be discredited, then there is no value in reporting it.

She thought about it and finally found an angle to smear the character. At the same time, she felt that this way of writing was more profound.

So Catherine wrote a manuscript.

The title of her article was: "Beware! Someone wants to seize the leading position in scientific research and literature and art, and they want to control the whole world"!
The content of her manuscript is mainly to sound the alarm, as follows:

In the past, almost all human scientific and artistic activities, including scientific research, literature and art, were dominated by standards set by the Lizard Party.

And now, with Jiaoben launching an international award and Long launching the Pangu Award, they are no longer hiding. They want to dominate science and literature and art. This is absolutely not allowed!
Once their awards become popular, a terrible situation will occur: Dongya will become the center of all scientific research and artistic activities! The original scientific research and artistic standards will be marginalized at an accelerated pace.

Therefore, Catherine appealed: All scientific researchers and literary and artistic workers should not pursue those Eastern awards. No matter how high the prize money is, do not participate, because they want to seize your soul and make you their mouthpiece!
Catherine's article is nothing short of alarmist.

After she sent the article back to the newspaper, the editor-in-chief Harriet praised it highly and thought it was well written.

However, does the other party really want to give a bonus of 100 million dollars?

That's a lot of money!
In Jusa today, the average salary of scientists is only about 50,000 to 60,000 US dollars a year. Even top scientists earn about 100,000 US dollars a year.

So, $100 million is a lot of money.

Harriet thought that if they really offered a prize of $100 million, it would definitely attract a large number of scientists and writers to participate in the award.

Never mind, let’s just send this article out.

So, the next day, the article was published in the New York Times.

This article was even placed as the headline article on page 3.

This is also a relatively eye-catching location.

The circulation of the New York Times is extremely large, with a daily circulation of over 100 million copies.

Moreover, it is a so-called serious newspaper, and its main readers are people of higher status, such as white-collar elites, professors and experts.

Joyce is a biomedical scientist at New York University who recently developed a new targeted anti-tumor drug.

Joyce wrote a paper about the drug that he was planning to publish in the journal Cell.

That morning, he arrived at the office and the New York Times had just been delivered.

Joyce began to read the newspaper.

When most people read a newspaper, they basically flip through the pages that interest them. If there is nothing interesting, they basically just flip through it and put it down.

Joyce turned to the third page and saw the sensational article written by Catherine: "Beware! Dragons want to seize the leading position in scientific research and literature and art. They want to control the whole world"!
When Joyce saw the title, he frowned.

He thought: This is too bad! What on earth are they trying to do? Can't they just be quiet?

He trusted the New York Times, so he thought it was all true.

Joyce began to read the article.

As he watched, he became angry.

He thought, you guys are almost starving, and you're still spending a lot of money on these nonsense things, why are you still holding the Pangu Award? !
Wait a minute! The bonus they gave seems to be quite a lot!

One million dollars is almost more than ten times his current annual income.

It would be great if I could get this bonus.

Of course, this money could very well be fake?
After Joyce finished reading the newspaper, he drank a cup of coffee and decided to start working.

He still needs to continue to consolidate his experimental results in the laboratory.

In his laboratory, there is a graduate assistant from Longguo.

This graduate student has just come from Long for less than a year. His name is Xiao Jiang.

Joyce usually just secretly observed Xiao Jiang and was polite to him, with basically no intention of communicating with him.

When Joyce arrived at the laboratory today, he saw Xiao Jiang was already doing the preparations.

When he saw this scene, he felt that the young people of Long Country were indeed very hardworking.

Other students haven't arrived yet, but he is already working.

"Hello, Mr. Joyce!" Xiao Jiang greeted.

Joyce nodded, and he suddenly became interested in talking to Xiao Jiang more.

"Jiang, do you know Wang Haoran?"

Xiao Jiang was a little flattered, as he had always felt that his tutor was very cold.

"Yes, yes, I know him."

Xiao Jiang didn't say much, for fear of saying the wrong thing.

Joyce said, "Is he a sinister and despicable person who always says bad things and does bad things, and never keeps his word?"

Xiao Jiang muttered to himself: What does Joyce mean? Why did he suddenly mention Wang Haoran?

Xiao Jiang knew that the media in Jusa slandered Wang Haoran almost every day, almost portraying him as a demon.

"Oh, Mr. Joyce, why are you suddenly concerned about Wang Haoran?"

"What do you think of him?"

Xiao Jiang would never express his own opinion.

If I say something wrong, Joyce will make things difficult for me.

Joyce mentioned that Wang Haoran took the lead in setting up the Pangu Prize in Longguo, which was intended to compete with the Nobel Prize.

“I just want to know, is this thing reliable?”

Xiao Jiang suddenly realized that Joyce was coveting the Pangu Prize led by Wang Haoran. He wanted to win the prize and make the money.

Xiao Jiang thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Joyce, Wang Haoran is a very powerful and versatile scientist who has made outstanding contributions in many fields."

"He has a very good personality and a good reputation in Longguo. If Wang Haoran were to lead a Nobel Prize, I think it would be 100% reliable."

Xiao Jiang took the opportunity to say a few good words about Wang Haoran.

Joyce frowned and said, "Then I am a little confused." (End of this chapter)