I Have a Research Support System

After the laboratory safety exam was over, Xu Qiu returned directly to Caiyi with Sun Wo and Mo Wenlin, and all three passed the exam.

They later learned that three of the 100 questions in the test were wrong.

Xu Qiu's actual score was 99 points.

But to Xu Qiu, whether it is 98 points or 99 points, it is not very important, anyway, it is passed.

As for how these wrong questions were discovered, it was because seven students failed the exam.

Among them, some unlucky ones were directly deducted 0 points, and some students who probably did not review well and came directly to the naked test, missed more than a dozen questions and scored less than 90 points.

Because failing the exam would affect the arrangement of the next experiment, they naturally refused to accept the fact that they failed the exam.

So they analyzed the wrong questions one by one, and finally found that there were problems with three questions.

Among them, there are two questions that have no correct answers, and one answer is wrong. It should have been chosen as C, but it was handled as B in the questionnaire star system.

After recalculating the scores, two of them landed successfully with scores of 88 and 89, and got a passing score of 90 or more.

Sunday.

Not long after Xu Qiu arrived in 216, Wei Xingsi summoned him to the office.

Wei Xingsi said straight to the point: "There are a few things. First of all, Ronald cooperated with us before and submitted an article. The article was submitted to ACSAMI. Xu Qiu, you are the second author..."

Xu Qiu was a little dazed when he heard the news at first, but then he recalled it carefully.

It seems that when Ronald came to visit in the summer, he brought back some ITIC-related device samples.

Later, they sent an email asking for "fresh" samples, and Xu Qiu asked Mo Wenlin to make some and mail them over.

During this period, Xu Qiu also emailed several times with Ronald himself and one of Ronald's postdoctoral fellows.

It can be considered unintentional, I didn't expect to get a second article.

For Xu Qiu now, an ACSAMI in the field of materials is nothing.

But for some fields, it is more difficult to publish articles, and ACSAMI is already considered a very good article.

Just like the two characterization methods that Ronald mainly researches, CEILV and TOF, are only limited to the semiconductor field, and it is difficult to publish high-impact articles.

But can you say that these instruments and equipment that are not so widely used are not important?

Obviously not.

In fact, domestic research on various precision instruments and equipment is very, very, very backward, and it cannot match the current status of the second largest economy.

Among them, the reason for the large proportion may be that the policy of "making is worse than buying" back then directly guided a wrong direction.

A sentence from the former deputy director of the Science and Technology Department of the Flower Planters explained the helplessness of the domestic scientific and technological circles: "The upsurge of the Flower Planters to purchase scientific research equipment has saved many foreign companies!"

Not long ago, a nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in the nuclear magnetic resonance center of Qingbei University broke down, and they contacted Bruker in Germany for maintenance.

Bruker said that it would pay 230,000 yuan in labor costs first, and then they would prepare liquid helium to see if it could be repaired.

In other words, the money was wasted if it didn't work out.

When did Qingbei University, the highest institution of flower growers, suffer from this kind of anger?

The center angrily terminated the cooperation between the two parties.

This incident alarmed dozens of professors in China at the time.

But this kind of struggle is doomed to be futile, because almost no domestic manufacturers can produce this kind of thing called nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, or can remove almost two words.

This situation has existed for many years.

As early as 2010, the florist replaced the beautiful country and became the world's largest manufacturing country.

However, in recent years, the florist's dependence on foreign high-end instruments has not decreased, but has been increasing.

Statistics show that my country imports nearly 100 billion US dollars of equipment every year, second only to petroleum and semiconductors.

Among them, 90% of high-end instruments are monopolized by foreign companies.

Taking NMR as an example, only a few companies such as Deutsche Bruker can provide it in the world.

It is this German company with an annual revenue of only 2 billion US dollars, which monopolizes more than 80% of the domestic market, and dominates Qingbei University.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Cryo-electron microscopy is an important tool for studying protein structure. In the world, only FEI, Neon Electronics, and Hitachi can produce it, and the domestic version cannot even be produced.

Slightly lower-end scanning electron microscopes have a domestic share of less than 10%.

Mass spectrometers are used to measure the mass of microscopic particles, and currently basically rely on imports. The high-end liquid mass spectrometry technology is entirely from manufacturers such as Agilent and Thermo Fisher.

Because it cannot be produced domestically, florists invest trillions in fixed assets for scientific research every year, 60% of which are used for imported equipment.

In addition to laboratories, in hospitals, CT, MRI, and large X-ray machines are almost monopolized by GE (General Electric), Philips (Philips), and Siemens (Siemens), commonly known as GPS.

A few years ago, a reporter from the People's Daily visited hundreds of companies and found that the production lines and R\u0026D centers there were almost reduced to a feast of "foreign equipment".

"Made in China in Western shopping malls, made in Germany and Japan in Chinese factories, and made in America in Chinese laboratories."

Such ridicule is somewhat embarrassing.

In 2009, Peking University conducted a survey and concluded: "In the past 20 years, the gap between my country's scientific instruments and developed countries has not narrowed, but gradually widened."

Fortunately, the country has been aware of this problem. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Natural Science Foundation of China have set up major special projects and increased investment. Many instrument companies are also rising.

In 2006, Beijing Dongxi Analytical Instrument Co., Ltd. independently developed the first mass spectrometer, sounding the charge of Chinese scientific instruments moving towards high-end.

BGI, which was stuck by Illumina, also realized its shame and courage. Through self-research and acquisition of overseas technology, it became one of the three companies in the world that can mass-produce clinical-grade gene sequencers.

Shanghai United Imaging Medical Co., Ltd. launched the first ultra-high-field animal magnetic resonance system for flower growers, breaking the 30-year monopoly of GPS.

Nevertheless, in terms of high-end instruments, there is still a long way to go in China.

On the other hand, Ronald is 50+ years old, and he is still active in the front line of scientific research, doing experiments by himself. In China, professors at Ronald's age rarely do experiments by themselves.

For example, Wei Xingsi, after returning to China, only taught Wu Feifei, Chen Wanqing, Duan Yun, and Tian Qing various experimental skills at the beginning, and then directed behind the scenes, and no longer conducted experiments in person.

Most of the hard-working ones are some young green pepper scholars, because there are similar "up or go" clauses.

Comparing the practitioners in the scientific research circle horizontally, especially the leading scientific research workers, Xu Qiu's subjective feeling is:

Foreigners are relatively more fond of scientific research and regard scientific research as a career more, while domestic scientific research workers mostly regard scientific research as a relatively stable "iron rice bowl" job.

One is a career, the other is a job. The positioning is different, and the energy invested is naturally different.

"Career" is similar to being your own boss, and "job" is equivalent to working for other people.

When you are a boss, you may value the long-term development of the company, but when you work for other people, most of you only think about how to earn more money, ideals and ambitions, etc., which are all painted big cakes.

For example, the founder of Qiandu is definitely to blame for being beaten by everyone, but is this really what the founder wants to see? Actually not necessarily.

When an enterprise expands to a certain scale, it may be difficult for the founder to actually control the entire company.

On the one hand, it is the alienating effect of capital on people, which makes people chase excessive returns too much.

On the other hand, the people in charge of specific affairs are all middle-level employees. If the middle-level employees unite, they can completely ignore the orders of the high-level and reap benefits from it. In this way, it is difficult for the orders given by the high-level to be passed on to the bottom and implemented.

Moreover, this kind of problem is also difficult to solve. You can't replace all the middle layers. Even if you replace it with a new one, can you guarantee that he/she will not be assimilated?

As for why the middle-level people do this, the reason is also very simple, they are not in the same class as the boss and high-level people.

For large factories, the bosses and high-level executives have usually achieved financial freedom. They may strive for their ideals and become "entrepreneurs" that benefit the society; while middle-level employees don't care how big your pie is. For them, the benefits in their hands are real.

Taking bidding advertisements as an example, when the bosses and high-level executives put forward this idea, there is a high probability that they would not want the company to receive some poor-quality advertisements to make black-hearted money. They just delineated KPIs and asked the lower middle-level employees to carry out the implementation with lower-level employees. .

And the middle-level employees may think: "Let's accept the bidding advertisements of XX Medical and XX Andrology together, so that we can create tens of millions or hundreds of millions of revenue for the company, and we can earn tens or millions of them a year." , and then work for a few years to save enough money, and when you are financially free, you can retire and enjoy life directly. As for if things are revealed later, whether Qiandu will be cold or not, that has nothing to do with us. Anyway, if you are sick, you have to go to the hospital. We will not go to Qiandu to search for a hospital, and doing so is completely legal and compliant, and others will at most condemn it morally, which is harmless."

And then they did just that.

The scientific research circle is also similar. In the real society, how many people in China are really fighting for scientific research itself.

In the last century, when the Internet was not so developed, it might be possible to induce some people to focus on scientific research through deception, ideological remolding or other methods. Now many people have become the mainstay of all walks of life.

But now, when the whole society is guided by "money first", young people have been exposed to this world of feasting and feasting through the Internet since they were young, and they mature early and are not so easy to be fooled and remolded by ideas. How many people who enter the scientific research circle can guarantee their original intentions? Woolen cloth.

Perhaps there are also some people whose original intention is a decent and stable job.

According to gossip, the average IQ of East Asians is very high, ranking first in the world with Jews, reaching 106, while the average IQ of beautiful countries is only 90.

To some extent, many scientific researchers in China are indeed "smart", the kind of shrewdness unique to East Asians.