Chapter 325 Taking Root

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 325 Taking Root

As Liu Hai predicted, as soon as the US policy was announced, various immigration companies immediately took action and searched for their targets across the country.

For them, as long as they can take away a person from China and successfully send this person to the United States, then what they can get is hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit.

Therefore, their enthusiasm is unprecedentedly high, and they can be said to be unscrupulous in doing things.

Harassing phone calls, offline interceptions, guest workers. Almost all available tactics have been used by them.

In fact, the results they achieved were indeed good.

Even within Chengdu Aircraft, as far as Chen Nian knew, two people had chosen to resign and prepare to go to the United States.

Chen Nian did not feel indignant about this.

Everyone has to make their own choices and must be responsible for their own choices.

I just hope that in the future, they will not regret this day.

In the office, Chen Nian looked at the report handed over by Li Xiang and said with some emotion:

"These Americans are really crazy. With such a huge cost, how many years can they last?"

"Taking a step back, the people they can attract through this method are all non-core personnel. Even from a cost-effectiveness perspective, it's not cost-effective, right?"

Hearing his words, Li Xiang shook his head and replied:

"We have also considered this issue, but after all, the effectiveness of talents is difficult to define."

"A mediocre researcher here may be able to develop great potential after changing his environment."

"A promising talent may be buried because he doesn't adapt to their way of working."

"No one can accurately predict the outcome. To be precise, they are gambling."

"If they can win the bet, they can get some more chips back."

"If they lose the bet, then they really only have the last two chips left - agriculture and energy."

Chen Nian nodded slightly and then asked:

"What about your own judgment? Do you intuitively think they can win the bet?"

"I'm not optimistic about it."

Li Xiang answered bluntly.

"Although Xinghuo has been criticizing the saying that 'you have to sit on the bench for ten years' in recent years, objectively speaking, scientific research is indeed a long and lonely process."

"With an overly utilitarian mentality, it is difficult to ensure sustained energy investment. There may be significant improvements in a short period of time, but if it extends to a few years, or more than ten years, efficiency decline is almost inevitable."

"Of course, although the final result is not promising, I have to admit that their move did bring us a lot of trouble."

"Especially from public opinion and internal voices, we are under pressure."

Upon hearing this, Chen Nian immediately understood what Li Xiang meant.

The so-called "pressure" means that in comparison, the treatment of domestic scientific researchers is not as good as that of the United States, which has led to some internal complaints.

This is a matter of course, but it is not that easy to solve.

Everyone can shout the slogan of improving the salary of scientific researchers, but where does the money come from?

It can't possibly fall from the sky.

Moreover, what is even more embarrassing is that most scientific researchers with poor treatment and poor personal returns do not belong to the core layer. They may be restricted by talent or opportunities, so they cannot enjoy the extreme enrichment like those top scientific researchers.

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Let alone the bench, they can't sit on the bench.

Most of the time, they are in the sewer.

They are the humblest beings in the entire scientific research community, and they are also the ones in the most difficult situation.

Relying on one's own ability is a long way off, and hoping for policy changes is even more impossible - after all, from a macro perspective, no investor in any country in the world will allocate a large amount of resources to targets that have performed poorly in the early stage.

superior.

As a national strategy, buying the bottom does not exist, chasing the high is the norm.

But should we just give up on them?

Chen Nian was a little unwilling.

In his previous life, he was also a member of this group.

So he also knows that these people are not really of low ability - just kidding, how many people who can embark on the path of scientific research don't have a lot of skills?

Maybe they just need more time to find a way that suits them.

Thinking of this, Chen Nian said:

"It's normal for us to be stressed."

"Domestic scientific research has developed rapidly in the past two years, but to be fair, the increase in the salary of scientific researchers, especially those at the grassroots level, is not enough."

"We are too utilitarian, and all resources are concentrated in a few large projects. If we continue like this, let alone whether the efficiency can keep up, some industries may be driven to death by us."

Hearing Chen Nian's words, Li Xiang nodded slowly.

"This is indeed a problem, but there is really nothing we can do about it."

"We are still in the overtaking stage, and fuel must be given to the locomotive."

"If we have to pursue fairness at this time, I think the gains outweigh the losses."

"Public opinion matters can be dealt with, but if resource allocation goes astray, it will be difficult to correct it."

Chen Nian shook his head and denied:

"I'm not saying we should abandon key projects and key personnel. What I mean is that in addition to these people, we should allocate some resources to ensure the survival of grassroots personnel."

"Then what should we do? Increase the basic salary?"

Li Xiang's expression was a little helpless.

In fact, if you want to ensure the survival of grassroots employees as Chen Nian said, starting with basic wages is almost the only option.

The reason is simple. You cannot issue special subsidies and special bonuses to them without any reason. This will seriously undermine the fairness of the entire system.

But the problem is that raising basic wages is a strategy that affects the whole system.

Not to mention the collateral impact in other industries, within the scientific research field alone, what is the overall cost of increasing the monthly salary by 1,000 yuan?

At this stage, the number of scientific researchers in China, including central enterprises and various public institutions, is about 1.1 million. If each person needs to be given an extra 1,000 yuan, the annual expenditure will be more than 15 billion.

Taking into account the potential costs in various aspects during the policy implementation process, the cost of raising wages once is close to 20 billion.

This is equivalent to the full-cycle R&D investment of a large-scale project.

The results of the project are tangible, but what about the results of preferential treatment of personnel?

This is indeed a frustrating fact.

"There is no need to touch the basic salary, the direction is too poor."

"We can afford the money, but there is no need to burn it like this."

"My idea is to set up a special subsidy."

"This subsidy is specially used for scientific researchers who have been working in unpopular fields for many years."

"We do not require them to make substantial results in a short period of time, but we require 100% investment."

"In other words, we provide them with the cost of trial and error."

Li Xiang, who was on the opposite side, pondered for a moment and pointed out the crux of the problem keenly:

"The evaluation system is a big trouble. If there are no rigid indicators, this subsidy will quickly become the best breeding ground for power rent-seeking."

"In the end, the powerful researchers will get the subsidies, and the people on the bench will be poorer or poorer."

“So, we don’t use the ‘application-evaluation’ method to decide who will receive subsidies, we use big data.”

"Big Data?"

Li Xiang didn't know much about this concept, so Chen Nian continued to explain:

"We collect information on all scientific researchers, extract income levels, number of papers, number of experiments, expenditure composition, and even data on the number of times of data review, conduct a comprehensive analysis of these data, and select the personnel who best meet the requirements."

"A simple example, real scientific researchers, the time they spend socializing at the wine table is definitely not as much time as they spend in the laboratory."

Hearing this, Li Xiang understood Chen Nian's intention.

"I understand, you want to identify the truly suitable candidate through data that won't lie."

"This idea is very good - it is even possible that if the model can be successfully established this time, this evaluation system can be applied to other places."

"For example, the evaluation of certain leadership. I estimate that once this model is made public, some people may jump their feet."

Chen Nian smiled disdainfully and replied:

"Just jump. The more energetic you are, the faster you will be cleared."

Li Xiang nodded again, but soon he spoke again:

"The idea is fine, and most of the data can be obtained."

"When evaluating the model, if the machine cannot draw a direct conclusion, do a preliminary screening first, and then send the results to Spark for evaluation."

"Xinghuo is an independent third party with no interest relationship and can guarantee the objectivity of the results."
To be continued...