The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 299: What I studied, you can’t think of
The list of newly elected academicians this year has been finalized, and the next step is to go to Beijing for a meeting.

Although Xiao Yi didn't care much about these things, since they were already delivered to his doorstep, he might as well take them.

The most important thing is to add an academician seat to their Science Island Laboratory.

Otherwise, as one of the most famous laboratories in the country, it would be somewhat embarrassing if it does not have an academician.

Of course, most people would not really think so. With Xiao Yi here, any laboratory can be called a top laboratory.

Afterwards, Xiao Yi went directly to Beijing to hold two meetings.

There will be one meeting at the Academy of Sciences and one at the Academy of Engineering. After all, they are dual academicians, so meetings have to be held on both sides.

At these two meetings, Xiao Yi also met various academicians.

Basically all the academicians from the two academies were there, which can be said to be the largest number of academicians that could be met at one time.

And these academicians all expressed their congratulations to Xiao Yi to varying degrees.

There are sincere ones, polite ones, and of course fake ones.

Of course at this time, they all expressed their most sincere congratulations to Xiao Yi, the youngest academician, and a dual academician.

In today's Chinese scientific community, there may still be people who are hostile to Xiao Yi. After all, when conflicts arise between interests, hostility and other things will naturally arise.

But basically no one disobeys him. To some extent, Xiao Yi has changed the global status of China's academic community by his own efforts.

In the past, foreigners’ impression of Chinese scientists was never very good, because under the public opinion trends controlled by foreign media, almost no Chinese scientists could be promoted under such public opinion, except for those Chinese scientists who had acquired foreign citizenship.

Because of this, in the impression of foreigners, China has almost no famous scientists they can name, so in many foreign film and television works, China is often described as mysterious.

There is still some gap between the mysterious country and the civilized country.

But with the appearance of Xiao Yi, this impression was completely shattered. Now, even if foreign media do not want to publicize it, they cannot avoid the news about Xiao Yi from spreading all over the world.

China's scientific status was immediately improved, and foreigners then realized that China was capable of producing such geniuses.

So, from this perspective, Chinese scientists should thank Xiao Yi.

With their status improved, they will naturally be able to make more demands in their cooperation with foreigners, thus having a greater chance of gaining a dominant position.

Xiao Yi doesn't need anyone's thanks at all. He just needs to do his own thing, so he doesn't care at all about what these Chinese scientists think of him.

Just like that, after attending the meetings of the two academies, he, who had been promoted to Academician Xiao, went to another place for a meeting.

The meeting place is in the National Council.

When he arrived, there were already quite a lot of people here.

Among these people, there are all kinds of people, including top experts in various fields and leaders of some relevant departments.

Of course, with his arrival, he immediately attracted quite a lot of people.

Then, everyone present greeted him with a smile.

"Hello, Professor Xiao!"

"Haha, we should call him Academician Xiao now. Just a few days ago, the Academy of Sciences announced our list of newly elected members this year, and Professor Xiao's name is on it!"

"It's not just the Academy of Sciences. The Academy of Engineering has also issued a notice. Academician Xiao is not only a member of the Academy of Sciences, but also a member of the Academy of Engineering."

"Good boy, congratulations to Academician Xiao. It's rare to get a double academician."

Facing the congratulations from those present, Xiao Yi just smiled and nodded at them, "Thank you everyone."

Then he sat in his seat under the guidance of the staff next to him.

This is a fairly forward position.

Sitting next to him is an expert in domestic economics named Lin Jingxi. He is already quite old this year, but has always been a leading expert in domestic economics.

"Hello, Academician Xiao."

Seeing Xiao Yi sitting next to him, Lin Jingxi stretched out his hand to him, greeted him with a smile, and said, "I'm Lin Jingxi, I'm in the business of economics."

Xiao Yi shook hands with him, "Hello, Professor Lin."

Lin Jingxi smiled and then said, "Speaking of which, I envy those of you who are engaged in science and engineering. In the end, you can be further evaluated as academicians. For those of us who are engaged in social sciences, the highest we can get is the Yangtze River Scholar."

After saying this, he explained: "Of course, I am not complaining, it is just a pure sigh."

"After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and productivity is the key to determining a country's strength. As for those of us who engage in social sciences, we are not engaged in the development of this kind of productivity at all."

"Of course, I am still very curious about how you, as the smartest human being in our history, view the relationship between science and engineering and social sciences, Academician Xiao?"

After saying that, Lin Jingxi looked at Xiao Yi expectantly.

Xiao Yi began to think about this question.

This is an interesting question.

Social sciences may seem to have nothing to do with science and engineering, but for a society, the relationship between the two is very close.

As the saying goes, the development of all things is interrelated.

Then Xiao Yi began to say: "First of all, let me correct your words. When you say science and technology are the primary productive forces, social sciences are also included. I wonder if Professor Lin excluded social sciences intentionally or accidentally?"

Lin Jingxi smiled, but he was not embarrassed by the problem being pointed out. He just said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to see if Academician Xiao was sensitive enough on this point. After all, I have always wanted to know what Academician Xiao's attitude towards social sciences is."

"With Academician Xiao's wisdom, I think even if I just said a long string of words, I should be able to clearly understand the meaning of each sentence. So, if Academician Xiao didn't hear my wrong words, then I can make a preliminary judgment that Academician Xiao subconsciously despises social sciences."

"But now Academician Xiao is very sharp and can find such errors. I think I can get a good preliminary judgment."

"Of course, if Academician Xiao is dissatisfied with this, I would also like to apologize to you."

Listening to the other party's words, Xiao Yi just said calmly: "It doesn't matter, I don't care."

Lin Jingxi was slightly startled and glanced at Xiao Yi's expression, wanting to know what he meant by "indifference". Did he mean that he didn't care about the offensive words that were a trap in his words, or did he not care about something else? But after looking for a long time, he couldn't see anything, so he could only give up.

Then he asked: "Then, Academician Xiao, you can continue to tell me your thoughts now."

Xiao Yi replied: "My view on the relationship between the two is very simple."

"That is, science and engineering create resources, and social sciences use resources." "As the saying goes, science and technology are the primary productive forces. The most important part of our human society is productivity."

"And there is no doubt that science and engineering are the key to the continuous updating of productivity technology."

"But productivity technology alone is not enough. We need to figure out where to apply these productivity technologies. That's the job of social science."

"It's like we have mastered transistor technology, but what can we do with it?"

“So there was the chip.”

"Now that we have chip technology, what can we do with it? In other words, what can we develop with chip technology that we need?"

“So there were mobile phones, computers, and so on.”

"Of course, this is just one specific case, there are many other cases."

"But that's what I meant."

Lin Jingxi laughed and said, "We are lucky that Academician Xiao has such an idea."

“In my opinion, there is also such a relationship between the two.”

Xiao Yi nodded slightly: "That's fine."

Then he fell silent.

Lin Jingxi didn't speak for a long time. He could see that Xiao Yi seemed to have no intention of communicating with him about this matter.

But after a moment, he couldn't help asking, "Academician Xiao, I'm actually a little confused about what you just said, that you don't care. I want to ask, when you said you don't care, do you just mean that you forgive what I said?"

Xiao Yi said calmly: "That's not the case."

"When I say I don't care, I mean I don't care what you think of me as despising or respecting social sciences."

Lin Jingxi was confused by this sentence.

But Xiao Yi's next sentence stunned him.

"Because what I study is something that you basically cannot take into account when you formulate plans for allocating and using resources."

So no matter what my attitude towards social sciences is, in the end it will not affect you and you will all have to think about how to modify your next plans based on what I have researched.

Xiao Yi did not say the next sentence, after all, that would seem a bit hurtful.

However, Lin Jingxi already understood the meaning of his words.

His face suddenly looked a little embarrassed.

What Xiao Yi said...

He didn't know how to refute it.

But at this moment, another old professor who witnessed their conversation shook his head and said to Xiao Yi: "So, all of us hate you."

Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows and glanced at the old professor next to him.

There was a nameplate in front of him, which read Luo Bangrong.

At this time, Lin Jingxi patted Luo Bangrong on the shoulder and said, "Hey, Lao Luo, don't say such nonsense."

Luo Bangrong just smiled calmly, and then said to Xiao Yi: "Of course, Academician Xiao, the kind of hate I'm talking about is not the kind of purely malicious hate, but another meaning."

"For example, today's meeting was somewhat sudden."

"And all this is because of the nuclear fusion technology you developed."

"It disrupted a lot of our previously made plans, so that for a long time, we had to work overtime to modify the plans. It was not very friendly to us old people."

"And now, we have to start discussing the formulation of the 16th Five-Year Plan in advance. However, even if it is completed by then, we have to be on guard against whether you will come up with some new technology and disrupt our plan."

"So, Academician Xiao, do you think we should hate you?"

Hearing the other party's explanation, Xiao Yi laughed, and then just spread his hands and said: "Then I think you can rest assured about the 16th Five-Year Plan, because at present, only nuclear fusion technology can bring such a big impact, and now, there is no technology that can have such a big impact on human society like nuclear fusion technology."

The focus of this meeting is to hold a node meeting for the 15th Five-Year Plan, and it is also the first discussion for the upcoming 16th Five-Year Plan.

In these five-year plans, the impact of scientific and technological levels is quite significant.

This is also the main reason why Xiao Yi was invited to attend this meeting.

He is now considered to be the most representative figure in China's scientific community. It is no exaggeration to say that his research direction can influence some strategic directions of planning.

It's like what they call nuclear fusion.

This was a possibility that had never been considered in the 15th Five-Year Plan, but it suddenly came up and completely disrupted many of the arrangements in the plan.

Therefore, when the controlled nuclear fusion technology just came out, social science experts like Lin Jingxi and Luo Bangrong stayed up all night for many days in order to cope with this new technology that completely raised human productivity to several levels, and finally came up with a series of new plans.

For example, the most direct issue is electricity prices. They not only have to think about to what extent electricity prices should be reduced, but also have to think about the impact that a sharp drop in electricity prices will have on the overall economy, and so on.

There is also no guarantee that there will not be some unexpected events. After all, with such low electricity prices, even if they look through all the statistical data for the past hundred years, they cannot find a statistical chart that can predict possible future situations.

So, it is absolutely correct to say that they hate Xiao Yi.

After all, no one likes something unexpected.

"But even though we hate you, we also like you very much."

Suddenly, Luo Bangrong spoke again.

"Although it's troublesome that some unexpected technologies have appeared, it also means that we originally only had those cards in our hand, but suddenly, you stuffed two kings into our hand."

"So how do I put it? This is a feeling of pain and happiness."

He laughed and said, "So, we still hope that you can come up with more technologies like this. This means we will have more cards to play."

"I have always supported the development of science and technology. Although I am only a person who formulates foreign economic policies and has nothing to do with science and technology, of course, the more cards I have in my job, the better."

(End of this chapter)