Chinese medicine: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 315: Bids
"Yanqing, Master's bid was not selected, but our submitted bid was selected!" Ning Zhu lowered his voice.

"Ah ha?" Zhou Yanqing quickly suppressed the feeling that he had just experienced when a patient sent him a 'specialty', and looked at Ning Zhu with great surprise.

Originally, Zhou Yanqing was going to apply for the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the name of Tan Zhongyu this year, which meant that Tan Zhongyu was just a figurehead, and Zhou Yanqing was not yet qualified to apply for the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

As a result, Tan Zhongyu had his own idea, so he came up with an idea together with Yu Yue and others, but they lost the bid!

Zhou Yanqing had no choice but to seek cooperation from Ning Zhu. Ning Zhu had his own ideas, but after comprehensive comparison, he felt that Zhou Yanqing's new osteosarcoma pathway was better.

So I agreed to work with Zhou Yanqing to apply for the project...

Ning Zhu had just graduated and received a youth fund, but he was not confident whether he could get a general research project.

You can’t apply for the Youth Fund and the General Fund in the same year, but you can apply in the second year. Ning Zhu has the Youth Fund as a backup, so he submitted the bid based on the principle of trying his best...

The hospital and the research team are not afraid of having too much research funding, but only of not having enough.

And then, it became like this.

"Yes, Master has some inside information. I don't have any inside information, so I can only wait for it to be announced."

"I didn't expect that I would win. When I reported to Master just now, he was a little disappointed." Ning Zhu stroked his forehead.

Zhou Yanqing could understand Tan Zhongyu's feelings of loss, but he couldn't fully empathize with him.

"Master shouldn't be angry, right? I have asked for his opinion..." Zhou Yanqing asked cautiously.

At that time, Zhou Yanqing was in the trauma center. Seeing himself falling into the "trap", Zhou Yanqing quickly tried to find a way to escape.

The winning bid is also a way to escape. If Zhou Yanqing won the bid for orthopedics, then he could apply to the hospital openly to be transferred back to the orthopedics department. Otherwise, the project would not be completed. When interrogated by the superiors, Zhou Yanqing could tell the truth.

"I'm definitely not angry, I'm just disappointed."

“As you know, Master is actually very arrogant. He hopes…um…” Ning Zhu hesitated to speak.

Zhou Yanqing understands that as a master, what he hopes is to feed his students as much as possible, rather than being fed back by his students too quickly and losing his "use value"!
It had been a long time since Tan Zhongyu felt a sense of professionalism in Zhou Yanqing, so he wanted to make up for it from another level.

If a large research group has two general grants a year, what an honor that would be!
But the problem lies here. The bids of Ning Zhu and Zhou Yanqing were included, but the bids prepared by Tan Zhongyu and Yu Yue themselves were not selected.

The boomerang hurt Tan Zhongyu again.

Tan Zhongyu has social background, such as connections, professors, platforms...

Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu basically cannot be said to own these things.

However, the application for general projects not only considers various accumulations and platforms, but also whether the ideas of the projects are novel and whether they are in line with international advanced levels.

Otherwise, the National Natural Science Foundation will become the back garden of a certain circle, and the country's scientific research will be almost ruined.

Such a vertical comparison can only prove that under the cooperation between Zhou Yanqing and Ning Zhu, the "leading edge" of scientific research thinking is slightly better.

"Master was just unlucky this time. He collided with someone else. No one has ever come through our passage, so there is no competition." Zhou Yanqing analyzed seriously.

"Yes, that's what scientific research is like!"

"As long as you can guarantee the completion of the project and bear the consequences of not being able to complete it, the more novel the project is and the closer it is to the critical point of scientific research, the easier it will be to apply for it!~"

"If you and Duan Qilin hadn't accumulated enough preliminary data, I wouldn't dare to take over your project so easily."

At this point, Ning Zhu asked: "By the way, when will Duan Qilin come? He applied for the doctoral exam last year and passed the re-examination. Now it's May, hasn't he finished his resignation yet?" Duan Qilin came for his third attempt at the doctoral exam at Xiangya Hospital.

Originally, he was going to study for a doctorate in Zhou Yanqing's class, but it was delayed for two years.

After June, Zhou Yanqing will be in the third year of his doctoral studies.

"I don't think the resignation procedures will be completed so quickly. But if he comes to study for a doctorate, he won't be worried about others blocking his contract."

"I didn't ask specifically." Zhou Yanqing said.

Of course Zhou Yanqing knew that Duan Qilin came to study for a doctorate, and Zhou Yanqing was very welcoming, but Duan Qilin had his own family affairs.

Whether as a friend or as a "scientific research partner", Zhou Yanqing would never interfere in the other person's family affairs, and even had to be cautious when asking him questions.

Once you make a choice about household affairs, the consequences are unpredictable.

What if something really happened to Duan Qilin's father, and Duan Qilin was unable to help, and he blamed Zhou Yanqing, what could Zhou Yanqing do?

Adults must have the ability to handle things and make their own judgments.

"I think after Duan Qilin comes back to study for a Ph.D., our hospital's competition can be saved!~" Ning Zhu's mood improved a little.

Ning Zhu attached great importance to Duan Qilin, because Ning Zhu had had short-term contact with Duan Qilin in the past. At that time, Duan Qilin's achievements were no less than Zhou Yanqing's, and were even slightly better.

Duan Qilin today certainly cannot compare with Zhou Yanqing, but he has definitely made some progress.

"Brother Zhu, you will participate in the youth competition this year, right..." Zhou Yanqing asked again.

"Yes, I was going to go last year, but I didn't have the chance because I was a resident. I will go to Huashan again this year."

"This year's mid-year academic conference and competition will be held in Anshi, Shaanxi Province. Yanqing, you can't go."

"By the way, Yanqing, does going to the slaughterhouse really help in practicing your skills?" Ning Zhu suddenly changed the subject and started talking about metaphysics.

Zhou Yanqing: “…”

"Brother Zhu, do you think I would lie to you?"

"No way!"

Can you please stop mentioning the slaughterhouse? I guess when you go to participate in the competition this year, people will mention this to you when they hear that you are from Xiangya Hospital.

But this year, Zhou Yanqing does not have such an opportunity.

……

During dinner, Zhou Yanqing had just finished a finger replantation operation. When he returned to the resident office, he told Chen Yu, who came to deliver the meal, about his winning bid.

Many people in the department did not react much, after all, there were a lot of people working on the project in the department.

But in fact, in a province, those who can pass the high-level research projects are basically concentrated in major universities, and it is difficult for outsiders to come into contact with such "big guys"!
Even the term "general topic" seems particularly unfamiliar.

"Really? Xiao Shitou, you are so amazing. You applied for the general program during your doctoral studies." Chen Yu was very happy. At least the emotional value was great.

“It’s not that bad actually. There are a lot of people who are accepted into general projects. If I can win an Outstanding Young Scientist or Excellent Young Scientist award, then I can truly escape from the relatively low-level scientific research environment.” Zhou Yanqing has a clear goal.

(End of this chapter)