dkrc Chapter 74. Everyone's common hobby is playing ball!
Chapter 74. Everyone's common hobby is playing ball!
The lunch at the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology's Institute of Biotechnology lasted until after 1 p.m. Mei Yanping had a meeting at the group in the afternoon, so she had to say goodbye.
Lu Ming hadn't been drinking, so he went ahead and drove over in his newly bought seven-seater luxury new energy vehicle.
The beautiful chairwoman of the Jiangtai Group always sits in the first row when the provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce and economic conferences are held!
The two vice-principals, Dean Zhou, and two doctoral supervisors personally came downstairs to see them off.
After Mei Yanping got into the car, Vice Principal Dai, who was in charge of industry-academia collaboration, immediately instructed Lu Ming: "Little Lu, drive carefully all the way and make sure to get President Mei to the company safely. Since you participated in military training before, you don't need to participate in this year's freshman military training."
During this period, the school has given you an assignment: to clarify the industry-academia collaboration project between Jiangtai Group and Yabin Group, and then contact me directly upon your return!
"Okay, Principal Dai, Principal He, don't worry, I'm old enough to know what's important and what's urgent!"
Lu Ming readily agreed, telling the two principals not to worry.
Enterprises genuinely need to integrate production and research, but they either can't manage it themselves or simply don't want to.
The key issue is simply which university should receive the project funding.
Vice Principal Dai immediately gave Lu Ming a thumbs up.
What's wrong with a 40-year-old recent college graduate?
A young man with no beard is unreliable!
Of course, we'd only feel comfortable entrusting a research project with hundreds of millions of dollars to a forty-year-old college student!
Lu Ming waved goodbye to the school leaders and drove away from the campus in his business vehicle.
After leaving the school gate, he said to Mei Yanping and the others in the car, "Yao Xuefang came to my studio this morning and created a smart science mom group. She insisted on playing with us."
Because they were speaking in front of Yao Xuefang and her daughter, they both spoke very subtly.
He wasn't even given a chance to refuse the female professor!
It's such a pity!
Mei Yanping sighed helplessly and said, "She's actually a pretty good person. She helped me a lot in the past and gave me many opportunities. I really felt bad refusing her to her face."
"It's okay. Just say that the decision is indeed in your hands, but you're mainly trying to figure out what I'm thinking."
Lu Ming and Yao Xuefang didn't have much of a relationship, so he could have refused her outright.
Let's get that random attribute point first!
As long as it's not a sensitivity attribute, it's fine!
"Then be careful. She's not a bad person, but she's also quite vengeful!" Mei Yanping reminded Lu Ming.
However, she wasn't too worried.
Lu Ming, huh?
He's incredibly experienced, skilled, and has countless reasons for rejecting women.
Why didn't Anita Mui want to collaborate with Yao Xuefang?
The main thing is that Yao Xuefang is fine!
She is a tenured female professor in the law department of Jiangnan University. Her teaching position and evaluation are very stable, and she has plenty of time every day!
If Yao Xuefang really gets involved, then the two female chairpersons, Mei Yanping and Han Huilan, will definitely suffer losses!
In today's small circles, everyone is very busy, and even taking several children to participate in activities can only be done in shifts.
Each time, it's one adult who has to take care of four or five children.
Children are always the most important!
This small circle, consisting of Rui Rui's dad, Gao He's mom, Yun Hao's mom, Yu Hang's mom, and Jia Ming's mom, initially came together to take care of the kids collectively.
Other benefits are secondary; after all, at this age, none of us have regular teammates, and we really want to play.
After arriving at Jiangtai Group, Lu Ming went to the R&D department, retrieved the materials of Jiangtai Medical's university-enterprise joint scientific research projects, and summarized the requirements of the listed company.
Afterwards, he went to the construction department of the Yabin Intelligent Textile Center to summarize the problems and needs there.
There are risks involved in combining industry and research with universities.
If you entrust a project to a doctoral supervisor, especially a prestigious one like the Yangtze River Scholars Program, the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, or the Ten Thousand Talents Program, they are very likely to subcontract the project to other professors, associate professors, or teaching assistants.
In the end, there are many cases where no results are achieved, or the results are unsatisfactory.
Even if this renowned doctoral supervisor personally leads the team, it is very likely that they will not be able to succeed, and hundreds of millions of yuan in research funds will be wasted.
The best approach is to clearly explain the project requirements, allocate more funding, and entrust the matter to a university leader at the academician level.
Let this leader assign projects.
These leaders know all too well who can do it and who can't, and who is just a nobody in the industry.
Similarly, as long as your mentor is an academician or a leading figure in the field with a very high status, you will never lack projects.
Unless you have limited abilities and are a bad person, your mentor won't even look at you!
Lu Ming made several trips to organize the research materials for each project, and then reviewed them again in his studio.
Two days later.
It just so happened that Jiangsu University of Science and Technology was starting its military training. In the morning, Lu Ming went to Vice President Dai's office and handed over the pharmaceutical company and intelligent textile center projects to the vice president.
He has compiled two very detailed project tender documents, and the specific requirements and funding have been verified.
The funding is relatively generous, about 10% more than that of normal university-industry-research collaborations.
This is the going rate for getting an academician to intervene, and it's even a bit low.
After Vice Principal Dai finished the meeting and received two project tender documents, he did not open them immediately. Instead, he gestured for Lu Ming to sit on the sofa and personally brewed him a cup of premium Longjing tea.
A single student can secure hundreds of millions in research funding!
At Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, there are a lot of self-important teaching assistants and associate professors who think they are great. They all have high self-esteem and look down on others, as if not letting them become academicians is an injustice to the country.
As a result, it's incredibly difficult for each of them to secure one million yuan in project funding each year, like eating shit!
When is there a year without complaining?
As Vice Principal Dai poured hot water into a glass, he chatted casually, "Xiao Lu, I heard Chairman Mei say the other day that you two have known each other for over ten years, right?"
"Her ex-husband is President Cheng of the Jiangbin branch of the provincial commercial bank. He was my senior at the Normal University. We were really good friends in school, and we were friends for a full twenty years!"
Lu Ming stood up and took the glass teacup from Vice Principal Dai.
Once the academician in the field of chemistry was seated on the sofa, he added appropriately: "My relationship with President Mei is special, and one very important reason is that our children grew up together since they were little."
When they were in the first year of junior high school, the two kids secretly started dating. Since the adults couldn't expose them, Mr. Mei recognized my daughter as his goddaughter.
Ms. Mei has been extremely busy these past few years, and since she and my senior colleague trust me, they decided to leave their two children in my care.
"Oh, no wonder!"
Vice Principal Dai then realized that he had been worried that Lu Ming was President Mei's lover, but it turned out that they were in-laws.
A marriage arranged since childhood.
After a moment's thought, Vice Principal Dai continued to probe, "What is your relationship with Chairman Han of the Yabin Group?"
Lu Ming patiently explained, "The relationship between President Han and President Mei is very special. They have been friends for a long time, and their social circles overlap."
Two years ago, the province wanted to restructure the Jiangtai Group, but it didn't have enough funds, so it asked Fuxin Capital to find someone, and finally found Mr. Han.
The province offered very favorable terms at the time, but the Jiangtai Group was too murky, and President Han dared not get involved easily, so he decided to support President Mei in taking action.
The two found Yinshan Capital and Fuxin Capital, raising 30 billion yuan from various sources. Combined with several tens of billions of yuan in investment and loans from the provincial government, this allowed the Jiangtai Group to get back on track.
They're all financial giants!
Vice Principal Dai nodded slightly and asked again, "So you, President Mei, and President Han are in the same circle, right?"
"There are definitely big differences in our work, but in our personal lives, we are friends with common interests. We help each other out, exercise and cycle together, play mahjong, play ball, and our children also play together."
Lu Ming gave a vague but not entirely deceptive answer.
We all share a common hobby: playing ball!