"I agree with Zhongmou's point of view. The purpose of our association only needs to be to promote scientific and technological exchanges between America and China." In the end, it was Li Zhengdao who came out to make the final decision.
"I also agree. There is no problem that Cheng Tong wants to cultivate the academic accomplishments of the younger generations. Similar work can be led by Cheng Tong, and we all want to participate."
After Li Zhengdao and Ding Zhaozhong spoke one after another, Qiu Chengtong did not express any further objections.
It's good that he takes the lead in doing this. It's not a big problem if it's not included in the purpose.
Hu Zhengming picked up the agenda in his hand and continued:
"Then let's move on to the second item on today's agenda. The names of the organizations, the China-America Science and Technology Exchange Promotion Association and the China-America Science and Technology Exchange Association. These two names just serve as a starting point."
Zhou Xin held his forehead. In his opinion, these two names were not as good as Ming Xinhui.
"These two names put the focus on communication, which is actually not very good. Although our vision is this, our name is too straightforward." Qiu Chengtong said.
“I don’t think our organization’s name should directly put the name of China on it,” Zhou Xin said.
If it were called this kind of name, 16 years later, the Chinese scientists and engineers who joined the organization would be at risk of being investigated or even higher.
We came up with a lot of names, and finally Li Zhengdao said: “It’s called the American Association for the Advancement of Chinese Science.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, roughly in 1946, the China Science Promotion Association was jointly established by the South China Science Society and the Chinese Natural Science Society.
Later, this association lost its voice, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS.
There is no similar organization established in China. We can establish one ourselves.
It's called the Chinese Association for the Advancement of Science, or CAAS for short.
All foreigners with Chinese ancestry are Chinese. "
After Li Zhengdao said it, everyone else thought it was okay. The only one who thought there was a problem was Zhou Xin.
The problem I feel here is also a problem after 16 years. It is impossible for Zhou Xin to directly say that he can predict the future and take this name. When I return to China, you who are still in Amerikan will not even be able to guarantee your personal safety.
Zhou Xin couldn't think of any reason to refute it. He could only keep this matter in his heart and remind everyone when the situation changes.
Hu Zhengming said: "If no one objects, then let's call it CAAS."
Qiu Chengtong added: "Yes, after our organization is established, we need to tell Mainland China and Wanwan to let them set up scientific research organizations later, and don't have the same name as ours."
Hu Zhengming continued: "Then there is the third item. Initially, we hope to only invite outstanding enough science and engineering scholars and engineers to build an elite group against the Committee of 100.
But later, both Mr. Li and Mr. Ding expressed clear opposition to this.
So we do not set a threshold now. As long as you are willing to pay the membership fee and register for membership, you can join. "
Li Zhengdao and Ding Zhaozhong believe that in order to promote academic exchanges between China and America and promote China's scientific progress, if we set such a high threshold, we will not be able to truly effectively promote China's scientific and technological progress.
Another very important reason is that if only the elite participates, China itself will be relatively lagging behind mainstream developed countries in the academic field, which will more easily lead to the phenomenon of academic cliques.
In a sense, joining their organization is equivalent to giving the corresponding person more leverage as a scholar.
Both Li Zhengdao and Ting Zhaozhong expressed strong opposition to this. At the same time, at this stage of the development of science and engineering, every researcher only knows a very narrow segment of his field.
If the threshold is set high, who will judge whether the other party is good enough in the academic field?
The two of them believe that there should be no threshold. As long as they are Chinese and are interested in science, they can join. Since membership fees are required, only Chinese people who are truly interested in science will join.
“At the same time, we can carry out a scoring system after a member joins based on his academic contribution and contribution to CAAS.
For example, if you publish a paper in the corresponding journal, how many points will be added, and then if you are rated as a tenured professor at Amerikan, how many points will be added.
How many points will be added for winning certain scientific awards and engineering awards.
Or how many points will be added if you contribute to promoting the scientific and technological progress of China.
Points determine the level. The higher the level, this is just the honor level.
As for the contribution made to CAAS, such as how much money was donated, how many points were added, how many rounds of academic lectures were given within the association, and how many points were added.
After preliminary communication with you, I plan to do this, just with specific points and rules. After we finalize the framework, we will formulate the rules and give them to you for review. "
"How do you feel?" Hu Zhengming asked when he and Zhou Xin were having dinner alone in the evening.
Zhou Xin said: "Fortunately, Mr. Li Zhengdao and Mr. Ding Zhaozhong are so old, their thinking is still so clear, and they have their own insistence on many things.
He is truly a master. "
Hu Zhengming: “As long as science and engineering scholars don’t start their own businesses, they are almost all relatively simple and idealistic.
Don't look at me. Although I started a business, my business was small and I was still very simple.
We are all Chinese, so we naturally hope that the Chinese can have a more vocal voice in the field of science and technology, hoping to promote China's scientific and technological progress. "
Even without CAAS, Li Zhengdao, Ting Zhaozhong and Qiu Chengtong all supported China's scientific development by returning to China to give lectures, setting up a special mathematics center in Shuimu, and donating money.
Take Li Zhengdao as an example. In 1997, he donated US$300,000 to establish the Qin Huiying and Li Zhengdao Chinese College Student Internship and Continuing Education Fund.
Lee Tsung-tao donated US$10,000 during the 1998 floods, US$5,000 during the SARS epidemic in 2003, and even donated money to the families of the journalists who died when the embassy was bombed in 1999.
Of course, except for Zhang Zhongmou, Zhang Zhongmou deliberately asked Hu Zhengming to ask him to participate purely because Zhou Xin wanted to poach TSMC.
Let’s put it this way. After the WTO, TSMC has invested the least in mainland China among the major semiconductor manufacturers. Intel and Samsung have much more production capacity in China than TSMC.
42% of Samsung's DRAM production capacity is located in mainland China. Intel still wants to expand its Shudu factory after being banned from purchasing chips in Huawei.
As for why they were confident in poaching TSMC, it was because from the late 1990s to the early 2000s, TSMC had a split attitude toward building factories in mainland China. Zhang Rujing, Jiang Shangyi, and Liang Mengsong all left TSMC one after another.
When Zhou Xin communicated with Liang Mengsong before, he had a good understanding of the inside story of what happened during this period. In his opinion, with him operating in the middle, TSMC could be divided even more.
If not for the split of TSMC at that time, SMIC would not have been born.
"You also said today that CAAS will set up a magazine and it will be open to all Chinese. It seems that your purpose of building CAAS into an elite association based on the Committee of 100 has been shattered." Hu Zhengming was happy to see his disciple. Deflated.
In his opinion, it is better to suffer setbacks in small things than in big things.
Zhou Xin seemed unconcerned: "My previous understanding was too shallow, but in fact Mr. Ding and Mr. Li's ideas are more reasonable.
We need a larger base so that more elites can emerge. "
The establishment of CAAS was discussed for three days. The main and most difficult thing was the rules.
Zhou Xin also successfully got what he wanted, firstly, the status of executive director and board member of CAAS, and secondly, he set up a company to be responsible for building the CAAS membership system.
CAAS is open to all Chinese. As long as you want to join, just apply. After applying, fill in your information and registration status, and then pay membership fees regularly.
Zhou Xin will set up payment of membership fees through NewPay. They are currently only targeting Chinese in the Amerikan area. Chinese from other countries can join if they want to join Amerikan.
After the Chinese joined, all the information he filled in was entered through the system built by Zhou Xin.
In the subsequent honor system, members will receive extra points for completing honors, and data will also be entered through their membership system.
After the data is entered, for example, if the member publishes a paper in a certain journal and then uploads the information, the reviewer will verify the authenticity.
Points will be added only after verification.
As for holding lectures or even a series of courses for CAAS internal members, there will be someone specifically to verify these.
Zhou Xin can keep track of the development of each member in real time. If a member's score suddenly increases a lot, then he must have made an outstanding contribution in a certain field.
Zhou Xin can directly see the changes in each person's honor points from the database, and can understand in real time which field the other person is an expert in and what contributions he has made.
It is equivalent to keeping track of the research progress of every Chinese scientist and engineer.
In order to keep everyone motivated, Zhou Xin plans to set corresponding levels. When reaching a certain level, honorary medals will be issued, similar to the medals for 100,000 fans and 1 million fans at Station B.
It’s just that the levels of CAAS have more subdivisions, and then there will be corresponding rewards. For the highest level, Zhou Xin plans to award pure gold medals.
Holding huge amounts of money is so inhumane.
To establish an organization in America, you need to choose the type of organization based on the purpose and mode of operation of the organization. CAAS is obviously a non-profit organization.
Then there is the name of the organization and the state government where it is located. They chose California, which has the richest resources of all kinds.
If you set up a non-profit organization, you also need to apply for a tax ID number from the federal government.
Prepare documents including bylaws, registration application forms, board resolutions, etc., submit the prepared documents to the state government and pay relevant fees.
Finally, after approval is obtained, the state government will issue a certificate of organization.
The entire series of processes will take at least three months.
After the discussion, Zhou Xin was responsible for recruiting people to operate CAAS, including building systems, organizing applications, establishing official websites, etc.
Procrastination is committed. . .
(End of chapter)
