Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

“Uncle Ren, we're back!”

A quadrangle courtyard in Yandu.

Ren Zhong, with his white hair and wrinkled face, broke into a smile as he watched more than a dozen elderly people slowly enter from outside. “Zhiyuan, you're all here?”

The first batch of people sent out by the Qianlong Project back then had almost all become business tycoons.

After Dongda University completed its twenty-year reign as the world's top economic power, the first batch of Qianlong seeds from Dongda University all wanted to return to their roots.

Although they had achieved success in foreign lands, each of them being a pivotal figure in the local economic circles, their roots were still in the East.

“Uncle Ren, we're all back. We've been arriving one after another in the past few days. Everyone has been wanting to visit you, so we gathered together today.” Ma Zhiyuan quickly stepped forward, holding Ren Zhong's hand with some excitement.

“Uncle Ren, I never thought there would be a day when we could return so openly.”

Ma Zhiyuan was telling the truth. When he first went abroad, the country was not strong enough. He could come back to visit, but not like now, returning to the country as a respected citizen, enjoying the great honor bestowed by the country. The huge capital they earned is now openly establishing a massive venture capital fund in the Oriental Pearl, with hundreds of billions of US dollars ready to be invested in Dongda University's current flourishing new ventures and nascent technological innovation enterprises.

This has injected a strong new impetus into Dongda University's technological innovation.

It directly broke the monopoly of the Liming Research Institute in applied research. Regarding this situation, Ren Zhong, the soul of the Liming Research Institute, was not at all worried about the institute's position being broken.

The current formation of an innovation ecosystem driven by the Academy of Sciences - Liming Research Institute - private venture capital is exactly what Ren Zhong has been dreaming of. If a stable pyramid structure is formed in the future, with private venture capital-driven mass innovation becoming the main channel for product research, then that will be the era when Dongda University's foundation is truly solid.

At that time, the Liming Research Institute can focus on key areas such as aviation, aerospace, navigation, railways, and military technology, which are technology-intensive and capital-intensive fields.

“It's good that you're back. You are all meritorious contributors to Dongda University's economic development. Now, giving you the status of honorary citizens not only retains your nationalities in your respective countries, making it easier for you to continue to exert great influence externally and continue to play a role in Dongda University's economic and trade affairs, but also serves as the country's recognition of you. Besides you, the country has also issued this recognition to well-known figures like the Chen family and the Situ family who are willing to be close to Dongda University. This not only ensures your freedom to come and go in the country, but also facilitates your participation in national-level advisory work as specially invited representatives. Your knowledge and vision are of great reference value for national policy-making. In this regard, it is both a great honor and a responsibility for you, and you must do a good job in this area,” Ren Zhong said with a smile.

To achieve this result, he and Staff Officer Ye had put in a lot of effort.

Because there were no precedents for these matters, many people in the country did not understand. At the same time, the true identities of Ma Zhiyuan and the others could not be explicitly stated. Finally, after Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye repeatedly suggested it to the higher-ups, they reached such a special honorary citizen status for overseas Chinese, and also chose the approach of specially invited overseas representatives, giving these overseas individuals a role in participating in domestic advisory work.

Now, Dongda University holds eight aircraft carrier battle groups, three thousand J12/J13 fourth-generation fighters, as well as the newly researched and successfully developed fifth-generation J17/J18 stealth fighters!

Not to mention the stealth war god bomber with a range of up to 12,000 kilometers, and the seventh-generation Oriental Express hypersonic missile with a range of 15,000 kilometers, bringing the whole world into its effective range at any time.

Therefore, the Western powers are now speaking very kindly, and everyone is working together politely to build a beautiful Blue Star, and has jointly established an international aerospace alliance, working together with Dongda University to move towards the sea of stars.

The public return of the oldest batch of Qianlong seeds did not cause a major stir. These large capitals have penetrated into the upper echelons of the West, and have long had inextricable links with Dongda University. Now that Dongda University stands at the top of the world, it is not surprising that even those who admire the strong would defect to Dongda University.

Therefore, such a return is worthy of their decades of undercover work, ushering in another historic comprehensive revival for Dongda University.

“Although our Dongda University has now embarked on the right track of development, and the speed of development is also satisfactory, the competition between countries is not a matter of three or five years, or even three or five decades. Since the eighteenth century, the life cycle of a world-leading power has become shorter and shorter. We have just stepped into this position, and everyone does not want all of this to be a flash in the pan. Therefore, we especially need everyone to explore together how our Dongda University should continue to develop in the future in order to maintain a healthy development path.”

After Ren Zhong welcomed everyone in, he quickly brought the topic to a grander level. This group of people almost represents the top level of Dongda University's science and technology and economic circles.

Their thoughts can make a small half of the world revolve around them, so as soon as Ren Zhong changed the topic, Ma Zhiyuan and the others immediately began to think seriously.

“The development of science and technology, of course, has an unpredictable side, but I think it is essentially a matter of investment and direction selection. If the investment is sufficient and the direction is correct, then there will always be some results,” Yang Wenyi, who returned from Prussia, pondered for a while before raising his head and said, “Just like our development in the IT industry, lithography machines and chip design are our foundation. The current lithography machine system is becoming more and more complex. From 0.13 microns to 90nm, and now to 65nm, we are constantly investing in research in this area. In the future, further development to 50nm, 45nm, or even within 30nm will be possible. Then, in the upstream production of chips, we will always have a leading advantage.”

“Now, in addition to domestic investment in this area, we have added hundreds of billions of US dollars in capital from the trillions of US dollars in wealth accumulated overseas over the years, as a venture capital fund for the next step of technological innovation in China. We may have capital investment in various aspects of innovation to research and break through.”

“In this way, with Uncle Ren's Liming Research Institute taking on the important task internally, continuing to drive the technological innovation and development of Dongda University's core areas, and our venture capital fund specifically providing research and development resources for Dongda University's private technological innovation activities, then we will not stop in this regard, and will still lead the world in development.”

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“But even so, I don't think it's enough. Now that our economic scale has reached a huge volume, then in the innovation link, we should not only focus inward, but also focus on the technological innovation achievements within various countries. When certain highly forward-looking technologies are in their infancy, we should find ways to acquire these technologies, especially technologies in cutting-edge and emerging fields. We must pay attention to them on a global scale.”

“After all, Dongda University's population size in the entire Blue Star is only one-tenth. There are many smart people in this world. We cannot focus all our attention on ourselves and not see other shining points.”

Ren Zhong deeply agreed with Yang Wenyi's words.

“Wenyi is right. This is a very good suggestion and idea. I think venture capital should play a role in collecting the world's leading technologies in the future. Not only to recruit technologies, but also to find ways to recruit top talents. After honorary citizens, we will also launch the Dongda University Green Card system. This is a special channel for advanced talents from various countries. In the future, talents with master's degrees or above from all over the world can apply for the Dongda University Green Card to work and live here,” Ren Zhong nodded and said, while revealing the next step of the country's talent introduction strategy.

In modern society, talent is the foundation of competition, and everyone is engaged in fierce competition around high-end talent.

However, according to the simple principle that people go to high places and water flows to low places, a good environment that attracts people is essential to introduce high-end talent.

Now, Dongda University is full of opportunities. The continuous infrastructure construction and the huge production system of the world's factory all require very high-end talents to lead and implement.

As soon as Yang Wenyi opened up his ideas, everyone began to add to them.

Soon, a meeting to greet and inquire became a meeting for deliberation, and many useful proposals were constantly colliding and growing in this brainstorming, eventually forming a series of complete ideas.