I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"The conditions are a bit crude, but for the time being, your conditions will be met here."

Jin Rong looked at the group of people behind him apologetically, and then walked in through the gate first.

Following closely behind was Yang Zhongkai. He looked up at the obviously faded door frame and roughly judged that there should still be traces of the 1990s here.

This is a small pile of buildings located in a deserted grassland on the outskirts of Beijing. Most of the red painted walls have fallen off, and traces of many slogans can still be seen.

"It doesn't matter, it's quiet here, nice."

"Haha, it's really good to do research... Don't worry, this place is sometimes used as an event venue. The water, electricity and other facilities are very good, and there is no need to tidy up. If you add something, it will be ready for use immediately."

As Jin Rong spoke, he looked at these ordinary researchers and wondered what the "Space Strategy Research Association" did.

The day before yesterday, the superiors suddenly issued a notice requesting that an organization called the "Space Strategy Research Association" be affiliated under the Academy of Social Sciences. It belongs to the Academy of Social Sciences in name, but is actually under the direct jurisdiction of the Government Affairs Council.

To put it simply, this research association is small in scale, but it has the ability to directly access Tianting, and its level is quite high.

The higher authorities also requested that the research association find a relatively remote office space with sufficient space, so Jin Rong finally chose this location.

This old building in the suburbs of Beijing is actually very grand in design. It used to be the factory building of a small electromechanical factory. Due to various reasons, it ended up in the hands of the Academy of Social Sciences. The location was not suitable for industrial or commercial use, and it ended up being idle.

Because the exterior wall used to be entirely red, it was also called the "Red Building".

Jin Rong couldn't see the origins of the people who had requisitioned the Red Building. The leader seemed to be just a university professor, and most of the others didn't know them. Only one or two guys from the think tank had some impression, and they seemed to have met them at the conference.

Jin Rong took a dozen people around the "Red Building" and then left in a wise manner, leaving behind all the members of the research association.

Yang Zhongkai was very pragmatic and first organized everyone to clean up an activity room, and then moved a blackboard from the warehouse and set it up. In his opinion, this was a perfect research place.

The Space Strategy Research Association has a simple name, complex members, and confidential content, because it is a research organization established to deal with the crisis of alien civilization.

In addition to these people now, basically everyone who knows about extraterrestrial civilizations is also a member of the research association, and their status can be seen as average.

Yang Zhongkai's role as president only plays a simple coordinating role. Research on extraterrestrial civilizations is not about technology. It is impossible for one talented person to support the entire organization. Instead, it requires a team with talents in all aspects to conduct rigorous analysis, make bold guesses, and carefully set the tone.

The Space Strategy Research Society is expected to need 100 resident researchers, including talents from all disciplines, and it will also require the cooperation of multiple departments, so it needs a large site.

Being affiliated with the Academy of Social Sciences is also to hide it from others. Anyway, there are all kinds of strange research institutes these days, so this research association will hardly be noticed by others.

Yang Zhongkai was very satisfied with the location of the Red Building. After seeing that the activity room was packed up, he saw that the time was just before three o'clock in the afternoon, so he simply held the first formal meeting of the Space Strategy Research Association.

He turned around, picked up the chalk, and kept making "swish" sounds on the blackboard. Soon he heard the sound of the chalk breaking and being thrown to the ground.

"On the impact of technological development on social formation: What changed in the first industrial revolution?"

The researchers below had calm eyes, not agitated by the title.

The research conference is not just about studying extraterrestrial civilizations, but also about the impact of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations on the entire human society. This is an extremely broad and complex topic.

"Technology has changed human civilization. From the Jenny textile machine to steam engines, trains, internal combustion engines, electric lights, etc., every technological innovation is a subversion of ideology.

The Jenny loom destroyed the traditional handicraft textile system, and coupled with the power of the steam engine, farmers had to hand over their land and became a large-scale bankrupt group, which directly led to the birth of a new class.

A textile machine can shatter the era when farmers were the main body, a railway can create a strong common understanding among people in different regions, and wireless telegraphy can mesh together information islands.

Without technological progress, there would be no current ideology, and it would be impossible to spawn subsequent ideological revolutions. The appearance of the entire human society and mainstream thinking would be completely different.

Therefore, we always take technology as the starting point, judge the development status of civilization based on the advanced level of technology, judge the social science system based on the development ideas of technology, and take entropy reduction as the inevitable law of civilization development, whether it is an alien civilization or an earth civilization.

…”

Yang Zhongkai talked eloquently that the biggest help he had during the six months at the base was that he gained a considerable understanding of the development of science and gradually recognized the absolute main role of science.

In fact, there is not much research that can be done on extraterrestrial civilizations, and there is still a lot of evidence from two planets waiting to be discovered. The current focus of the research association is still on the earth.

How much impact will extraterrestrial civilization have on human beings? How to turn these changes into opportunities and how to achieve their goals to the maximum extent? These are the issues of greatest concern above.

Of course, the research association will study various major trend changes at least five years from now, or even 10, 20, or 50 years later, and the specific content cannot be deduced.

The theme of the current seminar is a large number of advanced technologies from Xinyuan. They will greatly improve the domestic technological level, but they will also bring about considerable changes.

…

"Welcome, Robert Lightfoot."

"Thank you, I also appreciate your invitation."

Under the dense cameras and constant flashes of light, the space chiefs of the two countries held their hands tightly together.

It is now June 24. Robert, the current director of NACA, followed Xu Rang and was invited by the Chinese Space Administration to discuss relevant issues related to in-depth cooperation in the Sky Curtain Project - at least on the surface.

The meeting between the two was not as tit-for-tat as it seemed. Instead, they were friendly and seemed like friends they had not seen for many years.

Among Robert's small entourage, there was an attendant named David Usnow.

Of course, the purpose of Robert and his party is not simple. In addition to the superficial ones, they also need to prepare for John's visit and exchange some bottom lines in advance.

The meeting between senior leaders will not last long. John will not be in China for more than three days. Coupled with the necessary attendance at public events, the opportunity for real confidential talks may only be two or three hours.

Therefore, it is very important to understand the other party's intentions as much as possible in advance. For this reason, David is even willing to come to China.

On the first day, there was no private contact between the two parties. It was not until the second day after Xu Rang completed his work report that someone from above secretly summoned Robert and David.