Chapter 704 The Third Batch of International Students Returns to China!

“.All those overseas students you tried so hard to bring back have returned to China successfully the day before yesterday.”

Hearing what Li Jue said.

Xu Yun was subconsciously stunned at first, and then his eyes widened:

“Director, what did you say? Those overseas students have returned to China?”

Tell the truth.

If it weren’t for the paralysis of his lower limbs, Xu Yun would probably stand up excitedly at this time.

Yes, stand up.

Then he took a deep breath, put his hands on the table, and asked Li Jue impatiently:

“Director, how many overseas students are returning to China this time? Where are they now? How does the organization plan to arrange them?”

Looking at Xu Yun, who was pouring beans like a machine gun, Li Jue looked at Qian Bingqiong, who didn’t say much, and gestured to him:

“Comrade Bingqiong, please introduce the information in this regard.”

Qian Bingqiong nodded politely at him.

Although Li Jue is nominally the president of the Ninth Institute, his main focus is still on the daily management of the 221 base.

Especially after the establishment of the [Sanqing] project, the remaining personnel of the Ninth Institute in the capital were almost all moved to the base, and Li Jue's work focus was much more shifted than before.

Therefore, such personnel matters involving the outside of the base are basically handled by Qian Bingqiong.

For example, Lao Guo at the time.

The reason why Lao Guo was able to become the person in charge of the fluid mechanics project was that he was recommended by Qian Wushi and Qian Bingqiong investigated and decided.

There are also the return of overseas students that year.

The direct cause of the return of overseas students was the "Open Letter to American Students" published by 51 overseas students including Zhu Guangya, Hua Luogeng, and Ge Tingsui. The reason why they made this move was because Qian Bingqiong wrote another letter to Ge Tingsui a year earlier.

In the letter, Qian Bingqiong, as the director of the Institute of Atomic Sciences of the Yenching Institute, called on all overseas wanderers to issue "National construction will begin immediately, and those with aspirations are invited to participate in this great work together."

And with the authorization of the organization, some project promises were made to the overseas students across the sea, and later the distribution was indeed carried out according to the promise.

So in this kind of foreign-related project, Qian Bingqiong's experience and knowledge are much more detailed than Li Jue.

Then Qian Bingqiong flipped the small pocket in front of his heart a few times, took out a piece of paper, and spread it out to reveal a list.

Xu Yun noticed that the words on this list were not printed, but handwritten Chinese characters, and some of them showed signs of being altered.

Xu Yun had seen this situation many times in the base, and it usually represents a situation:

The content on the paper was not sent and copied by telegram, but information directly transmitted through the internal telephone.

So there will be more deletions and modifications when recording.

For example, someone may be called Zhang San, and the person on the other end of the phone may subconsciously write it as Zhang San. When checking, if they find that it is wrong, they will correct it directly on the paper.

This approach is more troublesome and time-consuming in terms of process, but as long as the content copied in this way, it is all core secrets.

There is no way.

Telegraphs and faxes these days have the risk of leaking secrets. Although the same is true for telephones, voice can be encrypted through dialects.

For example, the base and the capital used Leizhou dialect for encryption before, and it is said that Wenzhou dialect was also used frequently for a period of time.

This is actually not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that the rabbits had thought of this matter a long time ago, so they arranged some comrades from Wenzhou to mix in during the logistics evacuation.

After arriving on the other side, several comrades entered the intelligence department on the other side because they were proficient in Wenzhou dialect, and intercepted a lot of valuable information for the rabbits.

Of course, don’t think this thing sounds quite happy, for those comrades, it is actually licking blood on the tip of a knife.

At the same time, due to the difficulty of cross-strait exchanges, they have not been able to see their parents and relatives for a long time, and some people even died on the other side.

The sight returns to reality.

Qian Bingqiong then shook the list in his hand and said to Xu Yun:

"Xiao Xu, the number of scientists who studied in the United States returning to China this time is not very large, only 109 people."

"And if nothing unexpected happens, apart from these 109 people, there will be no other batches of scientists returning to China."

"They just arrived in Shanghai two days ago and should be on the waterway to Tianjin. The specific arrangements are still being discussed in the capital."

Xu Yun nodded gently.

109 people.

This number is actually much more than he expected.

In the fall of 1988.

Wang Delu and Du Kaixi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences started a research project on "Scientists who studied in the United States and returned to China in the 1950s". They interviewed 44 scientists successively.

The 105 tapes formed by these interviews were sealed for a long time for various reasons. It was not until 2013 that the "Interviews with Scientists Who Study in the United States and Returned to China in the 1950s" containing the oral accounts of 31 scientists was officially published.

This book also played a key reference role when Xu Yun wrote the novel. Many people's memories are related to the atomic bomb project.

Data shows.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were more than 5,000 scholars and students studying across the sea. In the 1950s, 1,200 returned to China, and about 60% of them studied natural sciences and engineering technology.

The first group of scientists returned to China on August 31, 1950, when 128 international students including Fu Ying, Jin Yinchang, Lu Guangda, Ye Duzheng, Bao Wenkui, Zhuang Fenggan, and Yu Guocong returned to China on the Wilson.

In the next year, about 1,000 scientists returned to China. At that time, they mainly came back on the "Cleveland", "Gordon" and "Wilson".

On the way back, many stories happened on each ship.

These two groups of overseas students who returned to China from across the sea were the main force returning from China in the early days.

Some of the remaining scientists on the other side of the sea are afraid to return to the country because they are involved with the other side, and some are studying (such as sophomores and juniors) and do not have the ability to serve the country.

Some are hesitant and undecided, while others have no idea of ​​returning home at all.

all in all.

No matter what their thoughts were, they did stay across the sea in the original history.

but

Now, thanks to Xu Yun's efforts, the third batch of international students returning to China has appeared.

"Of course, Xiao Xu."

Seeing that Xu Yun was silent, Qian Bingqiong continued to introduce the situation on the list:

"Although the number of this batch of international students is not very large, the quality is much higher than any previous batch, and all of them are elites."

"Among these 109 people, only 35 are freshly graduated college students or general scientific researchers, and the remaining 74 have professional titles of associate professor or researcher or above."

This time.

Xu Yun finally showed obvious surprise in his eyes.

I go

So many associate professors and scholars?

What's going on?

As everyone knows.

Different from Huaxia’s professional title system, the overseas teaching and research field is mainly divided into two major systems.

One is a lifelong system, called tenure-track positions in English.

One is a non-tenure system, that is, non-tenure-track positions.

Among them, faculty members belong to the tenure system, and their titles are American-style political system, that is, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor.

Researcher is a non-tenure system. Simply put, you have to sign a contract every few years. If you feel that you are not strong enough, then you will not sign.

Specifically, they are divided into associate researchers, also called assistant researchers, researchers and senior researchers.

In other words.

Professor in China = full researcher = full senior, associate professor = associate researcher = deputy senior.

Across the sea, professor = senior researcher, associate professor = researcher.

Therefore, the associate professor and researcher in Qian Bingqiong's words belong to the same professional title. It can be understood that 74 of these people who returned to China are deputy senior or above.

To know.

It is actually very difficult to rank professors across the sea. There are many associate professors on-site and senior researchers off-site—because researchers are non-tenure-track.

Not to mention that Chinese people are inherently viewed with colored glasses across the sea. Many Chinese people who can become associate professors are actually no less capable than white professors.

These 74 associate professors, not to mention Huaxia, are talents that are difficult to let go of even across the sea.

But what makes Xu Yun a little confused is...

Why are so many top talents returning to China this time?

Although that paper was extremely influential, Xu Yun originally thought that it would be rare to be able to bring back fifty or sixty people, 30% of whom were associate professors.

Nowadays, there are more than 400 associate professors in Huaxia, and the ratio of one in 20 returning may be a bit high - because basically all the scholars who are willing to come back returned to China in the first two batches.

Xu Yun's targets this time are mainly those compatriots who missed the first two batches of opportunities, that is, those compatriots who were studying in college or graduate school when they returned to China. It would be great for these people to be working as teaching assistants now.

And just when Xu Yun looked surprised.

Qian Bingqiong continued to introduce the situation:

"Xiao Xu, many of these 74 scholars who are associate professors and above have received world-class scientific research honors."

"For example, Mr. Chen Shengshen, the most famous differential geometry mathematician in the world, and Professor Li Yaozi, who has always been very close to us."

"By the way, Lao Qian, your cousin Qian Fanglin and her husband are also on the list of returning to China."

Hearing Qian Fanglin's name, Qian Wushi, who had pointed out the calendar to Li Jue not long ago, was suddenly startled:

"Oh? Fang Lin is back too?"

He has been leading a research project in the past period, so he really didn’t care about this news:

"It's strange, why did she agree to return to China?"

Speaking of Qian Wushi's cousins, many people will probably think of Qian Xueju - because Qian Xueju gave birth to a son named Qian Yongjian.

But few people know it.

Qian Wushi also has a cousin named Qian Fanglin.

Qian Fanglin is also an international student across the sea, but she did not pursue aerodynamics like Qian Wushi and Qian Xueju, but studied medical care.

More importantly.

Qian Fanglin now has a very special status in the entire Qian family.

Mentioned earlier.

Qian Wushi is a member of the Qian family in Hangcheng and a branch of the Qian family in Wuyue.

The Qian family of Wuyue has a long history. Mencius once said that the glory of a gentleman can only be destroyed in five generations, but the Qian family of Wuyue has been passed down for more than a thousand years.

From the great talent Qian Yi of the Northern Song Dynasty to the painter Qian Xuan in the late Song and early Yuan Dynasty, to the scholar Qian Dehong of the Ming Dynasty, the painter Qian Gu, the scholar Qian Wenxuan of the Qing Dynasty, and Qian Tang.

More than 100 people of the Wuyue Qian family were made marquises and ministers.

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a descendant named Qian Qi won the first place in the county examination, the prefectural examination, the academy examination, the provincial examination, the joint examination, and the palace examination, becoming the only person in the history of Chinese imperial examinations to win six consecutive prizes, known as the "Six Yuan Champion" in history - there was also a man named Huang Guan in the Ming Dynasty who achieved this step, but his fame was later abolished by Zhu Di.

And such a family that has lasted for thousands of years will not put everything in one basket in many things.

For example, after Qian Wushi returned to China, Qian Xueyu's branch was left by the family across the sea.

This practice is a bit similar to the Zhuge family in the Three Kingdoms period. Zhuge Liang followed Liu Da'er, Zhuge Jin followed Sun Shiwan, and Zhuge Dan followed Cao Rui, the chosen civil engineer.

Of course.

Although the Wuyue Qian family likes to strike a balance, they still don't sit on the fence when it comes to national issues such as the anti-Japanese war.

After the fifth division of Qian returned to China.

Qian Xueju became an important figure in the family's education field across the sea. Qian Fanglin's status was not that high at the beginning.

But two years ago.

After Jack Kilby developed the world's first integrated circuit, Qian Fanglin's value instantly rose a lot - because her husband Dai Mingsheng is also an expert in electronic engineering, and his attainments in related fields are very high.

You can say that.

Currently, there are about five or six hundred scientists in the world who are researching integrated circuits - the kind who are qualified to lead projects independently, and Dai Mingsheng can be ranked in the top thirty.

What's more subtle is.

Dai Mingsheng and Qian Fanglin were lovers in college. At the beginning, he didn't have enough tuition fees to study in China, so he married into the Qian family as a son-in-law, and thus received financial support from the Qian family.

In other words, Qian Fanglin is currently the one who makes the decisions in the family.

The Qian family has been able to survive for thousands of years, and it goes without saying that they have a broad vision and judgment.

Therefore, Qian Fanglin's status in the Qian family is very high now, and it can be said that he is on par with Qian Xueju.

The result is unexpected.

This time Qian Xueju stayed across the sea, but Qian Fanglin returned to the motherland?

Qian Xueju's choice of Qian Wushi is actually understandable. Although Chen Xingshen and Xiao Yang said that Qian Xueju was "considering it" when they talked before, Qian Wushi was more familiar with his cousin's situation.

Qian Xueju did have the idea of ​​serving the country, but he was a colonel on the other side of the strait, and he has always been very concerned about his identity.

At the same time, he joined the nationality of the other side of the strait in 1949, and with the push from the Qian family, it is completely normal for him not to return to China.

But the problem is

Qian Fanglin also has no reason to return to China.

And across from Qian Wushi.

Xu Yun's face also showed some thoughts.

It is a pity that Qian Xueju failed to return to China, but many things are so realistic.

Since the other party's answer is [consider it], then anything can happen in probability.

But in this way, Qian Yongjian estimated that he would have nothing to do with China.

However, compared to regretting this matter, what really surprised Xu Yun was Qian Fanglin's return to China.

Now the rabbits' planning in computer is already in preparation. The policy has the support of the leaders, and Wu Jikang and others are in charge of the algorithm, but the only thing lacking is technology. Or talents in application.

Or to be more straightforward, it is an expert in microprocessors.

This matter is a headache for Xu Yun himself. After all, his major is a world away from computers. In the future, he will have to ask someone for help to look at a graphics card.

Xu Yun's original idea was to leave this matter to time. There are many talents in China now, and he should be able to find a way out by exploring on his own.

Although this way of groping may waste a lot of time, Xu Yun has already given the rabbits a leading position in other aspects. One negative and one positive add up, at most everyone will be at the same starting line at that time.

The result is unexpected.

Qian Fanglin actually returned to China at this time, and Qian Bingqiong described "Qian Fanglin and his wife".

In other words.

Dai Mingsheng also returned to China with her.

Although Dai Mingsheng did not win the Nobel Prize in the future, he was selected as a member of the Haimeng Academy and the German Academy of Sciences, and a professor and vice president of Cornell University. He is well-known in the history of integrated circuits.

Now such a big man has returned to China.

Xu Yun's last puzzle piece on computers and chips was put together without any warning.

Suddenly.

A quatrain suddenly emerged in Xu Yun's mind without any warning:

Visiting the way in Kongtong to Xianghu Lake, reading thousands of volumes of poetry and books makes me stupid. I have been searching for it everywhere, but it is easy to get it.

But soon.

Xu Yun put this feeling behind his mind, looked at Qian Wushi in tacit understanding, and asked Qian Bingqiong in unison:

"Comrade Bingqiong (Old Qian), what happened across the sea this time?"

Whether it was the more than 70 associate professors or the unplanned people like Qian Fanglin and his wife who had no reason to return to China, they all clearly stated one thing:

Some special changes must have happened to the third row of international students on their way back to China, or more precisely, before they returned to China.

It was this change that affected many scholars who were not planning to return to China, and even changed their original attitude of not returning to China.

But what could this change be?

The corner tower was hit by a plane?

Melody's head was exploded?

Li Mei BBQ has reopened?

From the fact that there were only over a hundred people returning to China, it is not difficult to see that the scope of this change must not be large, and it is unlikely to be a policy issue targeting the Chinese people - otherwise the number of people returning to China would have to be at least a hundred times greater.

But at the same time.

If so many scientists can return to China, the impact of this change must be considerable, and it is highly likely to happen in the physics world.

However, Xu Yun and Qian Wushi were puzzled and couldn't figure out anything that could fit this unexpected situation.

Looking at the two people with confused faces, Qian Bingqiong stretched out his palm and pressed it down, signaling them to calm down:

"Hey, don't worry, you have to give me a chance to speak, right? - I'm not like Xiao Xu who likes to break things up."

Xu Yun:

"????"

Then Qian Bingqiong paused and continued:

"Didn't I just say that among the scientists who returned to China, many have won world-wide honors."

"For example, the Bell Prize, the Kalinga Prize, etc., there are even two Nobel Prize winners, and..."

Xu Yun kept listening and nodding while Qian Bingqiong was talking, but soon he noticed something was wrong:

"Wait, Comrade Bingqiong!"

He interrupted Qian Bingqiong's introduction and stared closely at the big boss:

"What did you just say? Two Nobel Prize winners?"

Qian Wushi and Lu Guangda on the side also locked their sights on Qian Bingqiong. If Xu Yun hadn't spoken, they would have interrupted Qian Bingqiong's words.

Qian Bingqiong nodded calmly:

"That's right, you two."

Xu Yun's breath suddenly stopped.

In his future life after traveling through time.

A total of 11 people of Chinese descent have won the Nobel Prize, namely:

Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning, Ding Zhaozhong, Li Yuanzhe, Zhu Diwen, Cui Qi, Gao Xingjian, Qian Yongjian, Gao Kun, Mo Yan and Tu Luming.

There were also two Peace Prizes awarded to two sand dollars, which I won’t go into details here.

At the same time, Mr. Wu Liande became a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935, becoming the first Nobel Prize candidate in the Chinese world.

And at this time.

There are only two Chinese Nobel Prize winners.

One is Mr. Yang, whom Xu Yun is very familiar with. Now he should be called Xiao Yang or Mr. Yang. Xu Yun knew about his return to China in advance.

The other one was one Xu Yun had never considered

Think of this.

Xu Yun couldn't help but take a deep breath and said a name to Qian Bingqiong:

"Comrade Bingqiong, could it be that the other Nobel Prize winner who returned to China is Mr. Li Zhengdao?"

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Qian Bingqiong was silent for a moment and nodded slightly:

"That's right, it's Zhengdao."

After receiving Qian Bingqiong's reply, Xu Yun's eyes suddenly became a little dazed.

be honest.

In his previous expectations, he did consider the possibility of some future Nobel laureates returning to China.

For example, Ding Zhaozhong.

Although he was born across the sea, he returned to China with his mother two months after he was born, and he still attended elementary school in Sichuan Province.

Originally, Ting Zhaozhong was an obvious pro-China faction in history. When he won the Nobel Prize, he delivered his acceptance speech in Chinese. This was the first time in the entire history of the Nobel Prize and even physics.

The reason why Ting Zhaozhong stayed on the opposite side of the sea was not because of political issues, but after careful consideration, he believed that only by staying on the opposite side of the sea could he have the conditions to study high-energy physics.

In the end, time proved that his choice was correct, and he won the Nobel Prize for his "J" particle.

If Xu Yun's memory is correct.

At this time, Ding Zhaozhong was probably in his final year of doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He might or might not return to China—after all, his studies were not over yet.

Another example is Cui Qi.

In many love stories, we often see a plot:

A pair of lovers were interested in having a concubine, but due to reasons such as being separated from each other, they couldn't get together. When they finally met, they could only sigh.

Cui Qi's situation is somewhat similar to this situation.

Cui Qi was born in 1939. He went to study across the sea just four years ago, and he wanted to return home after completing his studies.

As a result, when he graduated from the undergraduate program, the XX missile crisis broke out, and international students were strictly prohibited from returning to China across the sea.

So Cui Qi thought about it and decided, let’s continue studying for graduate school.

But when he graduated with his master's degree, the rabbits' first atomic bomb exploded again, and it was naturally impossible for him to go back across the sea.

Cui Qi can only continue to study for a Ph.D.

This time he studied crazily and studied hard, and it took him more than two years to graduate with a doctorate. He thought he could always go back at this time, right?

The eagle shook his head when he heard this. He said, "The rabbits' hydrogen bomb has just exploded successfully."

Later, the rabbits entered certain special periods and completely blocked access to the outside world.

So under various pressures, Cui Qi had no choice but to apply for citizenship across the sea. Unfortunately, she was separated from her motherland.

Later, the Rabbits began to contact the world. Cui Qi immediately returned to China to give lectures and introduced the international cutting-edge research hotspots to the Rabbits.

At that time, he suggested that the rabbits should study in the direction of two-dimensional electronic system physics. Now, decades later, the study of quantum transport properties of two-dimensional electronic materials has become a very important direction in the field of condensed matter physics.

And in this timeline.

I don’t know if it’s fate.

After learning that Chen Shengshen and others were returning to China, he immediately expressed his willingness to return with them. For this reason, he even stopped studying as a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

In addition to the above two, Xu Yun also considered some other people.

For example, Steven Chu, a 13-year-old kid whose theoretical probability of returning to China was even less than one in 10,000, had made some assumptions, but he had never thought about Li Zhengdao.

after all

As the second youngest Nobel Prize winner after Prague, Lee Tsung-dao can now be said to be very proud.

According to the original historical trajectory.

Lee Tsung-dao will become a Chinese-American naturalized overseas next year.

And it is different from Chen Shengshen, who was originally scheduled to be naturalized in December last year.

The main reason for Chen Shengshen's naturalization was that he served as the director of the Institute of Mathematics of Academia Sinica in logistics and the first academician. If the rabbits' letters had not specifically mentioned him, Chen Shengshen would not have dared to come back anyway.

Li Zhengdao's naturalization was more of a matter of course. Although there were inconveniences in life, Li Zhengdao's own resistance was indeed not obvious.

Of course.

This does not mean that Li Zhengdao is a sincere supporter of the party. His feelings for China must be very complicated, otherwise he would not have been naturalized across the sea for more than ten years.

Actually.

The real reason that made Xu Yun ignore him was that

The conflict between him and Mr. Yang.

The two had a quarrel over the signature issue of the paper, and they even stopped talking to each other until they died. Even if the big names in the Chinese and scientific circles across the sea wanted to make peace, they still could not succeed.

To know.

In 2023, for the two rogues, the rabbit and the eagle, there are really not many things that can make both sides of the scientific community fail at the same time.

Now that Mr. Yang is one of the leaders of the third batch of returning overseas students, you ask Li Zhengdao to echo Mr. Yang’s call?

This is obviously unrealistic.

But who would have thought that Li Zhengdao would actually return to China?

Looking at Xu Yun, Qian Wushi and others who looked shocked, Qian Bingqiong also said with emotion:

"Although I don't know what Masado was thinking, after he learned about this incident, he did find Comrade Sheng Sheng to express his willingness to return to the country."

"It is precisely because of the appeal of the two Chinese Nobel Prize winners Zhengdao and Zhenning that so many top talents are willing to return to China with them."