Chapter 300 The Prototype of Jinling Institute for Advanced Study

For scientific research, the state's support is indeed unambiguous.

Whether it was really to not delay Lu Zhou's time, or to let the leader see that he was working hard, Lu Zhou received a call from Secretary Liu the day after the meeting with Mr. Lu ended.

It's quite interesting to say that the number of times Lu Zhou and this Secretary Liu met can be counted on one hand, but every time they meet, this Secretary Liu can easily create the illusion that the two are very familiar .

After a few polite greetings, Secretary Liu made an appointment with him on the phone.

That afternoon, Lu Zhou met Secretary Liu's secretary, Zhao Zhengye, a man with glasses who looked very gentle.

"Hi, Professor Lu, I'm Secretary Liu's secretary Zhao Zhengye, you can call me Xiao Zhao." After shaking hands with Lu Zhou, Secretary Zhao said politely.

Letting go of his hand, Lu Zhou smiled and said, "You are older than me, how can I call you Xiao Zhao, I should call you Secretary Zhao."

"Then do as you said." Secretary Zhao smiled and made a gesture of invitation, "This way please."

He drove Lu Zhou to the high-tech development park.

After finding a place to stop the car, Secretary Zhao took out a map with circles on it, pointed to the marked places, and said to Lu Zhou.

"Here is the conceptual map of the High-tech Development Zone of Xianlin University City. The first phase of the project has been completed, and the second phase will be completed within a year. Because the policy has just come out, only 13 research units have completed their occupancy in the entire development zone. Overall, there is still a lot of vacant space.”

"There are several good office buildings not far from the subway station, and they are still vacant. If you see something, please let me know."

Lu Zhou shook his head and said: "The nanomaterial experiments I do require high precision, and the construction standards of ordinary office buildings are difficult to meet the experimental requirements. I hope you can help me find an open space. I will contact the engineering party to carry out the experiment. construction."

After listening to Lu Zhou's words, Secretary Zhao nodded: "No problem, there are a lot of land here that have not been sold yet, you can tell me where you like it, and I will report it to the secretary for you."

After studying the map for a while, Lu Zhou finally chose a good-looking piece of land on the map, covering an area of ​​10.1 mu, as the location of the R&D center.

As it turned out, his intuition was quite accurate.

Secretary Zhao drove him to the site to have a look around. Both the nearby traffic and the environment are quite good, and it is a good place for research.

As for the specific construction plan, he will entrust White, the manager of Xingkong Technology, to conduct project bidding and hire experts to evaluate the project standards. Lu Zhou will not have to worry about these troublesome things.

On the other hand, according to the national subsidy policy, Lu Zhou enjoys a large degree of preferential treatment when acquiring land.

In the university town, housing prices in the vicinity are generally more than 30,000 yuan, and the price of land acquired by developers is often more than 7 million yuan per mu of land.

According to Mr. Lu's promise, if Lu Zhou only needs to ensure an investment amount of 200 million RMB, the country on the land will subsidize 30%, and if the investment exceeds 400 million RMB, the subsidy will be doubled accordingly. Lu Zhou's initial plan was to invest 100 million US dollars, and the subsidy was naturally based on the largest standard.

The price given to Lu Zhou by the Municipal Bureau itself is the floor price of 5 million yuan per mu, plus the state subsidy, he actually only needs to spend about 2 million yuan per mu of land.

And that way, he can spend more money on equipment and experiment budgets.

After the site selection of the institute came to an end,

Lu Zhou then called White, and Xingkong Technology will contact the Jinling City Government and the construction party for the rest of the matter, and he does not need to worry about these trivial matters himself.

As for the period before the establishment of the research institute, Lu Zhou could only borrow the venue of the Jin University. Fortunately, in the new campus, there are many laboratory buildings that have just been built and the equipment has not been moved in, and Jinda is willing to help him with this.

For this matter, Dean Li of the Institute of Chemistry even personally took Lu Zhou to choose the experimental site on the campus of King University.

The two chatted while walking on campus.

Dean Li smiled and asked: "It is said that Princeton gathers the world's smartest minds. Professor Lu has been working in Princeton for almost a year. Do you have any feelings about what you have seen and heard there?"

After thinking for a moment, Lu Zhou said, "My biggest feeling is pity."

Dean Li said unexpectedly: "Oh? What a pity?"

Lu Zhou smiled and said: "I'm just talking about my personal feelings. In terms of undergraduate education, the minds of Princeton University freshmen are actually not much better than the geniuses who have just gone through the college entrance examination and are more than 100 points higher than the first line. .At least we are not behind in high school education, and we can even say that we have our own advantages.”

After a pause, Lu Zhou continued.

"However, starting from the undergraduate stage, the gap between the two will continue to widen. And it is not limited to the amplification of the individual level, but in the whole. When it comes to the master's stage, it is difficult to be comparable."

Dean Li said helplessly: "Professor Lu, this comparison is too unfair. Princeton's undergraduate education is top-notch in the world. Not to mention us, even Harvard and MIT are in the top tier of undergraduate education. It’s hard to compare with that.”

Lu Zhou smiled: "Yeah, so I just feel it's a pity."

After a pause, he ended this slightly heavy topic and continued.

"Actually, I have always had an idea to build an advanced research institute next to Jinling University following the model of Princeton."

Dean Li hesitated and said: "This is a good idea, but it may not be easy to realize it."

Lu Zhou nodded: "You are right."

Replicating the success of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study will not be so easy to do.

If you just build a building next to it, hire some researchers to conduct research, and then take a teaching position at Jin University next to it, it is likely to be a mere formal imitation.

The ultimate outcome of such an advanced research institute is, at most, to develop into a postdoctoral site of Jinda University, or a second graduate school, which is meaningless and will waste a lot of resources.

Dean Li: "From the beginning of its establishment, Pugao Institute was a Platonic research institution. To be honest, it is very difficult for this idealized research institution to survive in China. And even if it survives, it will be very difficult. Make a difference."

"Try it slowly, maybe because I am relatively young, I am quite optimistic about my abilities," Lu Zhou smiled, and continued in a joking tone, "Why don't we just open a research institute that hasn't opened yet? Call it Jinling Institute of Computational Materials Science."

Academician Li laughed and said, "Okay, you don't mind letting us take advantage of this, we naturally welcome it with both hands! Our University of Jinan is just studying to open a department of computing materials, why don't you become a part-time department head? I choose How many top students will you train for?"

Lu Zhou also smiled and said, "There is no need for the dean of the department. I'm afraid that if one of them can't hold back, he will fool all the talents in your chemistry institute into doing mathematics."

"That can't be done, I won't do any loss-making business!"

Both of them were bragging in a joking tone, and neither of them took these words seriously.

However, although he said what he said earlier in a joking tone, after hearing Dean Li's proposal, Lu Zhou couldn't help thinking about this issue seriously.

The battlefield is the best training ground. The country's big move in the field of new energy is not only a big battle to overcome photovoltaic materials, lithium-sulfur batteries and other technologies, but also an opportunity to cultivate research talents.

He does not necessarily have to completely copy the model of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, but he can find a model suitable for the domestic academic environment by himself.

If the model turns out to be feasible, he will try to extend it to mathematics, physics and other fields.

Whether it succeeds or not, it's a meaningful thing to do.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhou said in a half-joking tone: "Then I have to make some requests."

Dean Li said generously: "Whatever you want, just say it!"

Lu Zhou only said one word.

"people!"