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Of course, if you focus all your attention on the pessimistic aspects, you will naturally draw only pessimistic conclusions. In fact, there is still good news. For example, technology stocks, especially China's technology stocks, have performed well during this period and have been hotly speculated by market makers.

Various financial experts are publishing articles expressing optimism about the urgent growth that the new technological revolution will bring.

The economy has been in a slump for a long time. The original host city of the Olympic Games suddenly decided not to host it. To put it bluntly, it was because the economy was too stretched. Prices were high, airlines were in recession, tickets were likely to be unsaleable, and a lot of money had to be invested in repairing various venues. It was a loss-making deal, so Los Angeles simply refused to recognize the contract. Anyway, as long as the contract is denied, it means that the contract has not been signed.

Therefore, the new round of industrial revolution is a good thing, and capital has begun to plan the next key industrial chains in advance. Aerospace, artificial intelligence, robotics, environmental transformation, ultra-long-distance communications, Internet of Things upgrades, new technology mining... Every round of industrial revolution represents the emergence of new trends, and what capital has to do is to make arrangements in advance.

For ordinary people, if they find the right outlet, it is also an opportunity to change their lives.

Rebus once said that even a pig can fly standing on the wind. This statement is somewhat exaggerated, but it is not unreasonable. For the omnipotent capital, as long as there are some signs, the layout will be started in advance. By the time the production revolution begins, the layout has basically been completed.

But it is impossible for Niu’s capital to exhaust all its institutions when the industrial revolution started with great vigor. Opportunities will more or less fall out of the fingers, and even high-ranking elites will occasionally deviate from their predictions of the future, which gives opportunities to others.

Even if ordinary people can't make a lot of money if they plan their future employment direction in advance at this time, capital will not be stingy about paying more when the industrial chain is rapidly expanding. Economic prosperity suddenly appeared like this. .

Therefore, bypassing various complicated economic analyses, the most fundamental reason for the emergence of economic cycles is probably that the development of science and technology has slowed down and the progress of productivity has stagnated, resulting in capital no longer finding enough incremental markets. Capital’s inherent need to expand makes them more aggressive at this moment. Without the incremental market, they can only fight in the stock market.

The macroscopic manifestation is that disputes arise in the region, and everyone begins to quarrel for their own interests. The strong tear off the hypocritical mask of the economic upturn and begin to lift the harvesting sickle against the weak. It seems that the economy is beginning to decline, prices begin to rise, but wealth is getting stronger. Development begins to concentrate in a few areas and in the hands of a few people, but these wealth holders will be more cautious and will not invest massively. Instead, they will tend to protect this wealth conservatively, making the contradiction more acute...

Economic theories try their best to delay the occurrence of this extreme situation, and form various theories by studying various laws. However, in the end, the problem can only be solved by the explosion of science and technology and the substantial improvement of productivity. Otherwise, it will not be possible in the future. Smart economic methods can only delay the onset of economic recession or minimize the impact as much as possible, but they cannot eliminate it.

Only when productivity breaks out again, and new industries and new tracks emerge one after another, will the economy begin to pick up, and will there be myths about the success of little-known ordinary people counterattacking one after another.

Now various trends have shown that the world is on the eve of the explosion of productivity. At least capital has reacted. This wealth has begun to be laid out for the future. More money has been used to invest in new tracks for the future, because everyone has Clearly, this is the beginning of another round of wealth reshuffle...

After all, the relatively correct direction of development has been proven, and the next step is a competition of speed.

The only thing that makes many people uncomfortable is that this round of productivity explosion obviously started in China. This also means that in this round of world development, China will have more chips.

More and more ordinary people can feel these changes. For example, on various forums and social media, those public intellectuals and bloggers who brainlessly criticize the West have less and less market, and the probability of their comments being ridiculed by the public is also increasing. getting bigger. Occasionally, if someone goes out of the circle because of some unconventional remarks, they are often scolded.

Of course, speech is actually not convincing, and more people vote with their feet. The most specific manifestation is that in the past two years, fewer people have chosen to study abroad and immigrate. It seems that money from various overseas agencies is not easy to make, and more people have chosen to return to China. Domestic universities have also begun to receive more inquiries about studying abroad, especially popular schools such as Yanbei University, Huaqing University and various aerospace schools in China...

It is said that many foreign intermediaries have begun to summarize key tutors for popular majors in major universities in China.

Obviously changes at these levels are what Ning Wei likes the most, because he has already seen the possibility of realizing something awesome that he boasted before - making the capital of China the world's science and technology center.

Now it seems that only a matter of time remains to achieve this goal, and the trend is already obvious.

More and more universities in China have officially announced their withdrawal from the global rating system. C9 universities have begun discussions to redesign a more scientific rating system, and have begun to prepare a comprehensive ranking system for universities within Asia, and have sent invitations to many Asian countries. letter.

It's hard to say that this matter has much to do with Ning Wei, but to be honest, when the invitation was sent out, it was not just his tiger skin that was mentioned, but also the names of March Foundation and March Journal.

Of course, this was also discussed in advance.

After all, it would be somewhat unruly to allow a group of universities to evaluate their own university rankings, and the fairness could easily be questioned. So everyone discussed it with the March Foundation and hit it off immediately. The March Foundation will make a list. In the early stage, everyone does not need to have much influence, so for the time being, we will only rank Asian universities.

The initial plan is that if universities from other continents also want to join this ranking system in the future, just like the March Foundation submits applications, and a certain number of universities apply for a certain continent, the March Foundation will start to intervene in the ranking of universities on that continent. tidy.

Of course, this is all for later.

The key is for the March Foundation to formulate an effective, fair and open university ranking evaluation method at this stage, and first implement it within Asia. In this area, under the name of March Strong Artificial Intelligence System, everyone still believes that it is very competitive.

But these are still plans on paper.

And also put it into practice on paper.

For example, the Nobel Prize Committee sent an invitation letter, hoping that Ning Wei could attend this year's awards dinner. Of course, this is a routine matter. The Nobel Prize winners of that year will be invited.

Naturally, Ning Wei declined, and then once again asked his mentor Tian Yanzhen to attend the dinner to receive the award on his behalf. Something interesting happened. The other party agreed, and Lao Tian also agreed...

So on the night of December 10th, Swedish time, Tian Yanzhen delivered a passionate speech on behalf of Ning Wei at the awards dinner in the Stockholm City Hall. He not only thanked the Nobel Prize Review Committee for recognizing his students, but also expressed his full confidence that more and more Nobel Prize winners will emerge in China in the future. Then there were bursts of applause.

Regardless of whether he meant it sincerely or not, the celebrities at the scene really slapped him enthusiastically.

After the dinner, the old man happily spent a week in the Swedish capital. It is said that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sent two people to wait on him.

If this doesn't mean anything, then the International Mathematical Union suddenly agreed to hold the next International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, which can be regarded as a historical precedent. Yes, this news was notified to the Chinese Mathematical Society one year in advance, leaving China with sufficient preparation time.

This was probably the reason why Lao Tian ran away to Sweden happily.

If everyone thought it was unreliable before that the International Mathematical Union informed Ning Wei that he would win the next Fields Medal so far in advance, but this decision has confirmed that Ning Wei will win the Fields Medal. Huaxia Mathematics The Society didn't even have much input into it before it was a done deal.

This is enough to show that some people finally lowered their heads.

How should I put it... I probably still want to have a good relationship.

Although some struggles continue, there may be some benefits to being prepared in advance. After all, too much attention is now focused on Huaxia's basic physics laboratory. If there are any shocking results in the next year or two, then Huaxia's capital will not only be the center of the world, but may also become the center of the world. Future Space Technology Center.

Under such circumstances, it is understandable that more and more well-known theoretical mathematicians hope to work in this laboratory in the future. When many mathematicians regard this place as a holy place for future science, it is naturally better to understand that the International Congress of Mathematicians is held here.

This is probably the power of people's support. It has nothing to do with justice and is more driven by fame and fortune.

When a place is easier to produce results, easier to obtain funding, and easier to achieve a lifelong dream, people will always flock to it. If Ning Wei were to evaluate it, he could only say that this is probably life...

If you have been in the trough for a long time, you should be able to recover. To put it simply, it's his turn...

After all, it’s not easy for anyone. These days, I would rather remember the hardships and the sweetness.

I remember when he went to attend a conference abroad for the first time, although Jiang Da paid for the round trip, he and Yu Xingwei were also given three thousand US dollars in activity funds. But he didn't know anything at that time. He was flying on a small plane. He could endure the more than ten hours of sitting on the road, but he couldn't straighten his legs. When he got off the plane, he felt his legs were shaking...

Until he got into the car of Senior Brother Feng who came to pick him up, he still felt that his legs were shaking...

Thinking of the scene back then, Ning Wei once had some bad taste, wondering whether he should directly charter all the large planes of the world's major airlines during the week when the World Congress of Mathematicians was held in Beijing, so that these foreign Mathematicians and mathematicians have all tried what it feels like to sit crowded in the economy class of a small plane for more than ten hours. I think it will definitely leave a deep impression on everyone...

In terms of financial strength, it is not impossible if you really want to do it, but it is a bit boring and not grand enough. If this big deal is exposed, there is a high probability that it will be called a public enemy in the mathematics community.

Although I would rather not care about this, it is still boring to think about spending money and being scolded by a bunch of big guys.

But wait a few more decades, and by then no one will probably be qualified to call him out and scold him. At that time, he can give it a try. As the old saying goes, a man remains a boy until he dies...

But for now, these things can only be thought about. You can try it later, on other levels of course.

This idea is also a small spice in daily life. What we need to face more every day is actually a lot of information and trivial matters in the laboratory.

Sometimes trivial matters take up the majority.

Ning Wei also began to realize that he had simplified some things before.

As more and more scientists join, personnel management becomes more and more difficult. Although there is a relatively scientific management system, there are still many trivial things. Especially the group of scientists, which is said to be easy to manage, all have extremely high degrees. Many of them are still teaching in universities, and their basic quality must be above the average. But it is really difficult to manage well, especially when there are many foreign professors. , the already unrestrained free thoughts begin to collide, and some different sparks can always be created.

In addition, everyone's understanding of fairness is different, coupled with various creative sparks, directly led to the proliferation of various ideas throughout the laboratory. The specific manifestation is that various small groups united for different demands began to gradually Become more.

Fortunately, there is March.

Artificial intelligence can always walk among different group thinking demands like walking on a tightrope, so that conflicts between groups of different opinions will not break out and affect the overall progress.

Of course this is definitely not a long-term solution.

At present, the laboratory is still in a period of rapid development, and some contradictions can still be covered up by the current development momentum. If it enters the bottleneck period again, it may explode. It is normal for a thirty-year-long scientific research plan to experience a short-term bottleneck period, so Ning Wei felt that he still lacked a manager with rich experience and skills to handle these high-knowledge scholars.

It was only after being truly exposed to these practical problems that Ning Wei realized how profound management is. Especially once an interest group is formed, what needs to be targeted is no longer an individual, but a group's will to resist, which is very tricky.

It’s very distressing and confusing. Can’t everyone simply do some scientific research and development?

In this way, amid many worries, Ning Wei celebrated his 30th birthday.