The Science Fiction World of Xueba

The latest website: One day later, Pang Xuelin received the medal and certificate of the highest national science and technology award from the head of state in the RM hall.

In the next few days, the official media reported in all directions, and Pang Xuelin naturally once again became popular all over the Internet and became the focus of attention of the whole people.

This time, the fire did not surprise him too much.

After all, at the age of twenty, it is really shocking to receive this award, which symbolizes the highest honor in China's science and technology industry.

But to a certain extent, this can also be regarded as the support of Pang Xuelin on behalf of the national power.

After all, after the bet between Pang Xuelin and Tian Hong, there were many doubts about Pang Xuelin, whether online or in academia.

Choosing to present the award to Pang Xuelin at this time obviously expresses the recognition of Pang Xuelin by the national power.

After the award ceremony, Pang Xuelin went to the Chinese Academy of Sciences to participate in the annual meeting of academicians of the Department of Mathematical Physics.

This kind of procedural meeting generally does not have much dry content, but Pang Xuelin also got to know many top experts in the field of mathematics and physics through this meeting.

Pang Xuelin originally planned to return to Jiangcheng by plane after attending the meeting.

However, the joint arrival of several leaders from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Education disrupted his next plan.

This afternoon, as soon as Pang Xuelin returned to the hotel, he received a call from Xu Zejun, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, inviting him to visit the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

"Academician Pang, let me introduce you. This is Vice Minister Lu Wenlin of the Ministry of Science and Technology. You should have met him before. This is Vice Minister Liu Yangzhou of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology..."

Xu Zejun, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced to Pang Xuelin one by one.

Pang Xuelin smiled and shook hands with the two, then turned his gaze to Xu Zejun and said, "President Xu, are you...?"

Xu Zejun smiled and said, "Academician Pang, I came here today mainly because I need to communicate with you in private. How about this, let's go to the conference room to chat."

Pang Xuelin, Lu Wenlin, and Liu Yangzhou all nodded.

The four of them came to a small conference room,

Soon a secretary served tea for everyone, Xu Zejun signaled the secretary to close the door, and then went straight to the topic: "Professor Pang, the central government intends to establish a national laboratory in Jiangcheng, and I hope you will lead the establishment and serve as the director of the laboratory .”

"National laboratory?"

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, and asked in doubt: "Didn't the National Laboratory say that it will stop doing it in a short time?"

National laboratories are not a new concept in China.

Compared with the hundreds of national key laboratories located in major universities and research institutions across the country, national laboratories are the real national team. Among all laboratories, the number is the smallest and the sequence level is the highest.

Since 1984, the National Laboratory of Electron-Positron Collider affiliated to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Laboratory of Tandem Accelerator Nuclear Physics of the Institute of Atomic Energy, and the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China have been successively established in China. , the Heavy Ion Accelerator National Laboratory of the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Laboratory of Materials Science of the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

However, these five national-level laboratories were all established before 2000, and they were all based on large scientific experimental equipment or nuclear physics.

After that, in 2003 and 2006, China started the preparations for the construction of national laboratories in 15 important directions, including marine, aerospace, population and health, nuclear energy, and new energy.

They are the National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hefei National Laboratory of Microscale Physical Science of the University of Science and Technology of China, the National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, and the Capital National Laboratory of Molecular Science jointly established by Peking University and the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences... …

However, this batch of national laboratories has not been considered a success. Most of them were established by relying on a certain local university or research institution, and the assessment mechanism, operation mechanism, etc. are not mature.

This has also led to the fact that these fifteen national laboratories have not been able to escape the fate of preparations for so many years.

Later, it was really impossible to continue, and six national laboratories were simply changed to national research centers. The name was changed, and the status was not the same as that of a real national laboratory.

Except for the National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology in Qingdao, the remaining ones failed to pass the official approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

To some extent, this also shows that the country felt that the previous national laboratories were not qualified, so they were collectively downgraded.

A few days ago, when the chief asked about Pang Xuelin's scientific community, Pang Xuelin once complained about the problems of the national laboratory.

And he also clarified the ideal status of a top research institution to the head of state.

That is to say, it is best for the national laboratories that are biased towards application, the universities that are biased towards personnel training, and the institutes of advanced research that are biased towards theoretical research to be in the same city to support and promote each other.

National laboratories are based on solving major technical issues related to the national economy and people's livelihood, universities are based on cultivating top talents, and advanced research institutes are based on theoretical guidance.

He didn't expect that today, the high-level officials wanted him to take the lead in setting up the national laboratory.

At this time, Xu Zejun said with a smile: "Academician Pang, it's not that the national laboratory will not do it, but will do it. We hope to create a top-level laboratory that can truly solve major problems based on the needs of the country. Even the laboratory itself , will adopt a new mechanism.”

"For example, the laboratory itself operates as an independent legal entity, rather than being affiliated with a certain university or research institute. The laboratory itself does not have an administrative level, and implements a director responsibility system..."

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but look a little weird. Aren't these all the things he discussed with the chief a few days ago?

Xu Zejun roughly talked to Pang Xuelin about the overall operation mechanism of the laboratory, and continued: "At present, our initial idea is to jointly build a national laboratory by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangcheng University, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The laboratory itself is independent of The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiangda University, the laboratory is led by you, and is fully responsible for the operation of the laboratory, the specific research direction of the laboratory, etc., all of which are under your complicated control, and you can even rely on your carbon nanomaterials research center. Establish this laboratory. But for the laboratory specifications and requirements, we require direct comparison with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States! And it must be completed within five years."

Pang Xuelin narrowed his eyes slightly.

This requirement is not simple.

Take the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States as an example, it has 12,500 regular employees and 3,300 contract workers.

About one-third of tech workers are physicists, one-fifth are engineers, one-sixth are chemists and materials experts, and the rest are mathematicians, computer engineers, biologists, geographers and experts in other fields.

The annual operating expenses of Los Alamos National Laboratory alone exceed 2.2 billion US dollars.