Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Postdoctoral is not a degree. In China, postdoctoral refers to a job position in a university or research institution to engage in scientific research after obtaining a doctorate.

In foreign countries, there are also some people who have not obtained a doctorate and participate in scientific research as postdoctoral fellows.

China only formally established its postdoctoral system in 1985. However, the college entrance examination was only resumed seven years ago, and there are not many PhDs in the country.

People with doctorate degrees were all trained in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1980s, they were still professors at least. The more powerful ones even became academicians. There was no need to become postdoctoral fellows.

In the following years, first-class domestic universities began to set up postdoctoral research stations, and scientific research institutes also began to set up postdoctoral research workstations. However, due to the general lack of funds in the domestic scientific research industry, whether it was a postdoctoral research station or a postdoctoral research station,

Scientific research workstations and scientific research funds are not rich.

The situation in colleges and universities is better than that of scientific research institutions. Although everyone is short of funds, if you work as a postdoctoral fellow in a college for two years, you can at least become an associate professor, which is also a profession with considerable social status.

In scientific research institutions, there is no such kind of treatment. Many positions in scientific research institutions are thankless, with poor pay and high pressure. Most people are not willing to do it, and they don't sound as qualified as university professors.

Therefore, the first choice for many postdocs is not scientific research institutes, but scientific research institutions in universities.

After entering the 1990s, the funds of domestic scientific research institutes began to become abundant. At this time, the postdoctoral research workstations established by various institutes really began to play their role.

Li Weidong has long wanted to set up a postdoctoral workstation. After all, in terms of scientific research capabilities, the level of the postdoctoral workstation is definitely several steps ahead of the company's own R&D department.

However, according to regulations, the establishment of a postdoctoral scientific research mobile station or scientific research workstation requires approval from the Ministry of Personnel and the National Postdoctoral Committee. It cannot be established by just one person.

Many colleges or scientific research institutions are not of a sufficient level, so even if you submit your application, the National Postdoctoral Committee will not approve it.

As a national-level scientific research institution, the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute is obviously qualified to set up a postdoctoral workstation. Therefore, Li Weidong has already made up his mind to take up the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute as a sign and take down the postdoctoral research workstation.

When Dean Chen opened his mouth and mentioned 10 million in scientific research funds, Li Weidong knew that Dean Chen was asking for money in a different way, so he did not refuse immediately. Instead, he took a detour and talked about starting a research project.

Invoice matters.

The sentence "pay taxes according to the law" directly blocked Dean Chen's mouth. No matter how awesome Dean Chen is, he can't circumvent the laws of the country.

What's more, Dean Chen has spent his whole life in a public scientific research institution. How does he know the secrets of corporate taxation? Li Weidong can fool Dean Chen with just a few random words.

Later, Li Weidong proposed the establishment of a postdoctoral research station, which made it clear that he would use the resources of the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute to make a wedding dress for Fukang Agricultural Machinery.

According to the regulations, the postdoctoral research workstation is an independent organization within a school or scientific research institution.

Although the unit that establishes a postdoctoral workstation has the right to carry out target management, indicator assessment, performance evaluation, rewards and punishments for the workstation, the funds for the postdoctoral workstation must be earmarked for its own use.

Because the state and governments at all levels will provide funding subsidies for postdoctoral workstations, this makes units dare not misappropriate funds for postdoctoral workstations.

The audit departments at all levels are not blind. If they dare to misappropriate scientific research funds without authorization, they will definitely be in trouble when they audit scientific research funds every year.

This also means that once the postdoctoral research station is established, the scientific research funds paid by Fukang Agricultural Machinery will belong to the postdoctoral research station, and Dean Chen will not be able to use the tens of millions to divide the funds.

Secondly, the results of the postdoctoral scientific research workstation are handled in accordance with the national laws and regulations on intellectual property rights. This is also a mandatory requirement of the country.

This rule was originally intended to protect the interests of the units that set up workstations. However, in the current view of Dean Chen, this rule is simply a rip off of the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute.

Because the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute does not provide scientific research funds!

Without money, there is no legitimacy to obtain research results. In this regard, the intellectual property laws and regulations of any country will protect the interests of investors. After all, if no one pays, there will be no scientific research results.

If the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute's own project team receives external funding and finally produces results, the agricultural machinery researchers can be shameless and keep the results as their own, and just give the funders a right to use it.

Things that I have researched by myself are also more flexible at the operational level.

However, as the postdoctoral workstation is an independent organization, the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute cannot take its research results as its own, but must handle it in accordance with national intellectual property laws and regulations.

It is precisely because the country has special regulations for postdoctoral workstations that Dean Chen cannot take advantage of them. Therefore, when Li Weidong proposed to build a postdoctoral research workstation, Dean Chen immediately understood that Li Weidong was not a genius. He clearly regarded himself as a genius.

Kaizi!

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Dean Chen was a little angry and depressed, but he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he said, "Chairman Li, you are an enterprise. There is no precedent for setting up a postdoctoral workstation in an enterprise in our country, right?"

"But the policy doesn't allow it. It can only be said that this aspect is in a blank stage for the time being." Li Weidong continued with a smile:

"Furthermore, this postdoctoral scientific research workstation is essentially established by your Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, but the office location is located at our Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company!"

Dissatisfaction flashed through Dean Chen's eyes, and he thought to himself, if the office is located in your Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company, our Agricultural Machinery Research Institute will probably lose even a penny of the 10 million scientific research funds, not to mention dividing them.

Can't see it.

Li Weidong continued: "Dean Chen, actually I also know that your scientific research funds are relatively tight and you are responsible for many scientific research projects. You should not have too much money to invest in the research and development of cotton harvesters.

Without financial support, the cotton harvester may not be able to achieve phased results in a short period of time. Therefore, our cooperation is the only way to speed up the scientific research progress of the cotton harvester.

And this will definitely be beneficial to your hospital. After the cotton harvester is developed, we will have products that can be used, and you can use the scientific research results to submit to your superiors! This is much better than cutting off projects due to lack of funds!"

Dean Chen frowned slightly. He naturally understood what Li Weidong said.

Public scientific research institutions like theirs do not exist to make money, but to meet the needs of the country, so they submit their scientific research results to their superiors.

Dean Chen tried his best to defraud and defraud funds, and also hoped that various projects in the hospital could be accelerated and achieve results as soon as possible.

From this aspect, cooperation with Li Weidong is indeed a good way. Although the cotton harvester is not a key scientific research project, if it can be made, it will fill a gap in the country. This is also the case of the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute.

An achievement.

However, Dean Chen always felt that he did not get any money from Kaizi and was at a loss.

This mentality is probably like throwing something away if you don’t pick it up when you go out!

Li Weidong saw through Dean Chen's thoughts and said: "Dean Chen, I also know that applying for the establishment of a postdoctoral research workstation is not an easy task. The management of the postdoctoral workstation in the future is also a very important task, so

Well, if this postdoctoral research station is built, I can pay a management fee of 200,000 yuan to your institute every year!"

Dean Chen knew that this was considered as buying money for himself.

Two hundred thousand a year is actually not a small amount for a project like the cotton harvester that was originally going to be axed, but compared with ten million, it is a drop in the bucket.

Dean Chen also knows that in this situation, it is definitely impossible to get 10 million, so if you can get more, you should try to get as much as possible!

Dean Chen pondered for a moment and then said: "Chairman Li, you have never been in a scientific research institution, so you don't know how difficult it is to manage a scientific research institution! Just like last year, something happened in our hospital

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Seeing Dean Chen start to complain, Li Weidong smiled helplessly and said, "A management fee of 300,000 yuan a year."

"Speaking of the summer before last year..." Dean Chen mentioned another thing.

"Three hundred and fifty thousand a year?" Li Weidong had no choice but to raise the price again.

"In the winter of 1992, I remember it snowed heavily that day..."

"Four hundred thousand a year! Is the head office OK?"

"In the late 1980s, scientific research institutions were undergoing reforms..."

"Dean Chen, why don't you make an offer?" Li Weidong said.

"Five million a year!" Dean Chen held out five fingers.

Dean Chen thought about it. If he applied for a six-year postdoctoral workstation of 500,000 yuan a year, it would be 3 million yuan. This was also a considerable amount of income.

"Deal!" Li Weidong took the opportunity to give Dean Chen a high-five, leaving no room for Dean Chen to bargain.

Dean Chen was stunned for a moment, and deep down he couldn't help but muttered: "Am I going to lose something?"

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Li Weidong thinks it's worth spending 500,000 yuan for a postdoctoral workstation.

Dr. Ni Guilin has already done some research on cotton harvesters. Li Weidong only needs to provide part of the funds, and the research progress will definitely improve rapidly.

It is impossible for Li Weidong to really invest 10 million. The postdoctoral workstation is built at Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company, which is Li Weidong's own territory. It is not Li Weidong who has the final say on how much money he wants to invest at that time!

After the postdoctoral research station is established, it will not only study cotton harvesters, but also provide comprehensive technical guidance to Fukang Agricultural Machinery.

When Fukang Agricultural Machinery encounters any technical problems, go to the postdoctoral workstation for advice. Can the workstation help? At worst, I can give you some gifts, bring two bottles of Maotai, and secretly give me a red envelope, and the matter will naturally be solved.

As for the "travel money" of 500,000 yuan given to the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute every year, this is also a matter of necessity.

The Agricultural Machinery Research Institute is also responsible for the quality inspection of agricultural machinery, so we must not have a bad relationship with the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, so as not to put Fukang Agricultural Machinery in the wrong shoes in the future.

Therefore, the 500,000 yuan this year cannot be saved at all, so it should be regarded as a carbon tribute for the Agricultural Machinery Institute.

In Li Weidong's plan, as long as this postdoctoral research station is built, he will live here permanently from now on.

At that time, postdoctoral workstations were established in universities and scientific research institutes, and companies did not have postdoctoral workstations.

It was also in 1997 that in order to promote the integration of industry, academia and research and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into production, the state promulgated the "Notice on Expanding the Pilot Program of Enterprise Postdoctoral Work", which cleared up policy issues. From then on, enterprises can apply to the state for

, established a postdoctoral research workstation.

However, until 2004, the companies that set up postdoctoral research workstations were state-owned very large or large enterprises, as well as a few high-tech enterprises. Most of the corporate doctoral research workstations were concentrated in "Chinese-headed" companies.

Obviously, if you are not a large state-owned enterprise or a high-tech enterprise, you are not qualified to set up a postdoctoral workstation.

Of course, at that time, with the exception of individual companies such as Huawei, other private companies did not have the capital to set up postdoctoral workstations. Those who could really afford postdoctoral workstations were the powerful state-owned enterprises.

The scale of Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company is certainly incomparable to those "Chinese-prefixed" giants, and the high technologies of that era were concentrated in the IT field. At that time, agricultural machinery manufacturing could only be regarded as traditional machinery manufacturing, not high technology.

Therefore, if Fukang Agricultural Machinery wants to wait for the "Pilot Notice" to be officially released and follow the formal procedures to apply for a postdoctoral workstation, it will be very difficult. It will not take seven or eight years to apply.

But if Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company had a postdoctoral research station before the "Pilot Notice" was issued, the situation would be completely different.

At that time, with a little operation and finding ways to find connections, the original postdoctoral research workstation can be turned into Fukang Agricultural Machinery's own corporate postdoctoral research workstation.

It can be said that for Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company, the establishment of this postdoctoral workstation is a strategic weapon for corporate development.

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In Qinghe City, Ershilibao Village, the newly built textile wholesale mall has completed its internal decoration, and acceptance work such as fire protection, security, and civil air defense have also been completed.

The next step is to recruit tenants. Once there are some merchants, they can officially open for business.

This is only the first phase of the textile wholesaler's project. According to Li Weidong's plan, there will be a second and third phase of the project. After the completion of the third phase of the project, the wholesale mall can accommodate at least 20,000 merchants.

Walking in the spacious and bright aisle, Li Weidong nodded with satisfaction, and then said to Ma Zhongyi beside him: "Brother Ma, I have applied to establish a special mall management company to carry out commercial management and operation of the mall. When the time comes, the general manager will

But it’s none other than you!”

"I'm not good at business. I even managed an electric furnace factory and it went bankrupt. And I don't have much education, so how can I manage such a big shopping mall?" Ma Zhongyi said quickly.

"Managing a shopping mall is different from ordinary business. It mainly involves dealing with people. Brother Ma, this will definitely not be a problem for you!" Li Weidong said with a smile.

Business is different from production. Doing business actually means communicating with people. It is particularly important for business to have good interpersonal relationships in all aspects.

Ma Zhongyi is very good at this aspect. Even though Ma Zhongyi does not have a high degree of education, he can't bear the fact that this guy has a social awkwardness, and he is also born with the aura of "good brothers", ranging from business owners to businessmen.

Both pawns and Ma Zhongyi can get along with each other, and after a meal of wine, they can all become brothers.

Seeing what Li Weidong said, Ma Zhongyi did not refuse anymore. After all, he built the wholesale mall from scratch. It was like his child. If it was left to others to manage, Ma Zhongyi would really feel a little disappointed.

Li Weidong continued: "The next step is to attract investment. We will try to fill up all the business spaces here in one year!"

Ma Zhongyi next to him hesitated for a few seconds, and then said: "Weidong, there are so many business spaces here, it will be difficult to fill them in one year. As far as I know, the businesses under the greenhouses in the city are not willing to move here.

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