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"Principal Huang, esteemed school leaders, I will have someone contact your school shortly regarding the 100 million funds, which will be deposited into a dedicated account. Your expenditures will also be subject to our oversight. Is that acceptable?" Su Cheng said with a smile.

Although the money is being donated, it can't just be thrown away carelessly. It's not impossible that the school might misuse it or that certain individuals might embezzle it.

He knew that Principal Huang Li-song was a good leader, but the other leaders might not be.

Therefore, supervision is still very necessary.

"Of course, Mr. Su, please feel free to send someone to supervise. Once the funds are received, we will definitely use the money where it's needed and will absolutely not allow a single penny to be misappropriated!" Principal Huang Li-song said, patting his chest.

Su Cheng nodded. The overall environment of academia and education in this era was still quite good.

"By the way, Mr. Su, donating 100 million Hong Kong dollars is a major event. I was hoping to hold a donation ceremony for you later, it doesn't need to be too long and won't interfere with your schedule. Would that be possible?" Principal Huang Li-song asked Su Cheng.

"Sure, go ahead and arrange it as you see fit," Su Cheng said nonchalantly, nodding.

He understood Principal Huang Li-song's approach. Besides announcing this event so everyone would know about Su Cheng's act of great kindness, the main reason was that once everyone knew about it, it couldn't be an empty promise.

No matter the era, there are always empty promises. People say they'll donate, but it doesn't always materialize, ultimately ending up as nothing.

As a public figure, if Su Cheng held a donation ceremony but the money didn't arrive, it would be a huge blow to his reputation.

"Then, Vice-Principal Mai, I'll have you arrange the donation ceremony. You can invite a few media outlets with strong influence, such as the 'Oriental Daily News', 'Knightly News', 'Jia Yi Television', 'Wireless Television', etc. Try to get the preparations for the donation ceremony done within an hour," Principal Huang Li-song said to a foreign Vice-Principal standing nearby.

"OK, I'll arrange it immediately," Vice-Principal Mai said, nodding, and then left the meeting room to arrange the donation ceremony.

"Mr. Su, let's continue our discussion," Principal Huang said to Su Cheng with a smile after the Vice-Principal left.

"Yes, please do. Director Yang, please explain the main purpose of our visit to Xiangjiang University this time," Su Cheng said to Yang Chao-ye, who was standing nearby.

Yang Chao-ye nodded and stood up.

"Principal Huang Li-song, and esteemed leaders of the school, as you all know, Xiangjiang has reached world-class levels in trade, tourism, finance, shipping, and other fields, but in terms of technology, especially high-tech, our Xiangjiang still lags behind many top international cities.

Although our Oracle Computer Company has become famous worldwide recently, relying on Oracle Computer Company alone cannot improve Xiangjiang's technological level too much. The underlying reason is that Xiangjiang's high-tech atmosphere is not strong enough.

Another very important reason why it is difficult for Xiangjiang technology companies to develop is that high-tech companies want to develop in Xiangjiang, but it is difficult to recruit relevant technical talents, which leads to the failure of many people who originally wanted to establish high-tech companies in Xiangjiang.

I believe many of you here have been to Silicon Valley. The main reason why Silicon Valley has been able to develop is that the universities around Silicon Valley, such as Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, and Santa Clara University, have established relevant majors and are constantly training talents for major companies in Silicon Valley. This is also the reason why Silicon Valley has become the most famous gathering place for technology companies in the world.

Xiangjiang also has many universities, but Principal Huang and the school leaders present should all know that our university majors are mainly focused on finance, trade, and business. Majors such as chemistry and physics only have broad directions. Under the subdivisions, electronic information engineering, new materials technology, software engineers, computers, and other majors are still blank in Xiangjiang.

As a world-renowned technology mecca, Silicon Valley, these leaders of Xiangjiang University have naturally been there, and they have visited in the form of visiting Silicon Valley higher education institutions, so everyone knows a little about the situation there.

After Yang Chao-ye finished speaking, these leaders began to discuss.

Yang Chao-ye's words touched their hearts.

As leaders of the school, they naturally hope that Xiangjiang University will become better and better.

And Xiangjiang has already become an international metropolis, so why has Xiangjiang University always been only a regional university and has not reached the top international level?

The underlying reason is that Xiangjiang University, as a comprehensive university, has too large a gap in strength compared with top universities.

"Mr. Yang, we actually know what you said. We also want to keep up with the development of the times and set up these majors, but you also know that to establish these majors, we must have people who can hold the ground. These big shots are in high positions in high-tech companies in beautiful countries and other high-tech countries. It is difficult for us to invite them to be teachers at our school without paying a lot of money. Therefore, we have not established these majors for a long time. The government's financial allocations to our school every year are limited. It's not that we don't want to, it's that we really don't have the ability," Principal Huang Li-song said helplessly.

There is an old saying in Cantonese: Which bald person wants to be a leper?

Xiangjiang University also naturally wants to become a top university, but their current strength does not allow it, and many times they have no choice.