Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

"Mr. Ren, we are back!"

A courtyard house in Yandu.

White-haired Ren Zhong looked at the dozen or so elderly people pouring in from outside, and a smile broke out on his wrinkled face, "It's Zhiyuan, are you all here?"

Almost all of the first batch of people sent out under the Qianlong Project became business tycoons.

Twenty years after the University of Tokyo became the world's leading economy, the first batch of potential talents of the University of Tokyo are thinking of returning to their roots.

Although they have achieved success and fame in foreign countries and are influential figures in the local economic circles, their roots are in the East.

"Mr. Ren, we are all back. We all arrived one after another in the past few days. We have always wanted to visit you, so we decided to come together today." Ma Zhiyuan walked quickly forward, shook Ren Zhong's hand and said excitedly.

"Mr. Ren, I never thought that one day I would be able to come back openly like this."

Ma Zhiyuan was telling the truth. When he went abroad, the country was not strong enough. He could come back to take a look if he wanted to. But now, he has returned to China as an honorary citizen with great success and is enjoying the great honor bestowed by the country. The huge capital they have earned has now been used to establish a huge venture capital fund in the Oriental Pearl Tower. Hundreds of billions of US dollars in venture capital can be invested in the flourishing new startups and nascent technology innovation companies at Oriental University.

It has injected strong new impetus into the scientific and technological innovation of Southeast University.

This directly broke the monopoly of the Liming Research Institute in applied research. Regarding this situation, Ren Zhong, as the soul of the Liming Research Institute, was not worried at all that the status of the Liming Research Institute would be broken.

The current mass innovation driven by the Academy of Sciences, Liming Institute and private venture capital is exactly what Ren Zhong has always dreamed of. If a stable pyramid is formed in the future and mass innovation driven by private venture capital becomes the main channel for product research, then this will be the era when Southeast University has a solid foundation.

By then, the Liming Research Institute will be able to play a role in some key technological fields, such as aviation, aerospace, navigation, railways, military technology and other technology-intensive and capital-intensive fields.

"It's good to be back. You are all contributors to the economic development of Dongda. The status of honorary citizens given to you, on the one hand, also retains your nationality in your respective countries, making it easier for you to continue to exert great influence externally and play a role in Dongda's economy and trade. On the other hand, this is the country's recognition of you. In addition to you, the country has also issued this recognition to celebrities like the Chen family and the Situ family who are willing to be close to Dongda. It not only ensures your freedom to come and go in the country, but also makes it easier for you to participate in national consultations at all levels as special representatives. Your knowledge and vision have a very strong reference role in national policy making. This is both a great honor and a responsibility for you, and you must do a good job in this regard." Ren Zhong said with a smile.

In order to achieve this result, he and Staff Officer Ye put a lot of effort into it.

Because there are no precedents for this, many people in China don’t understand it.

At the same time, it was impossible to reveal the true identities of Ma Zhiyuan and others. Finally, after many suggestions from Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye to the top leaders, they reached an agreement on such a special status of honorary citizens for overseas Chinese. At the same time, they chose to invite special overseas representatives, giving them the role of participating in domestic deliberations.

Today, Dongda has eight aircraft carrier battle groups, three thousand J12/J13 fourth-generation fighter jets, and the latest successfully researched fifth-generation J17/J18 high-low combination stealth fighter jets!
Not to mention the stealth Ares bomber with a range of up to 12,000 kilometers and the seventh-generation Eastern Express hypersonic missile with a range of 15,000 kilometers, which can bring the entire world into effective range anytime and anywhere.

So now the American and Western powers are speaking very kindly, and everyone is politely working together to build the great cause of the beautiful blue planet. They have also jointly established an International Space Alliance, and are working together with the University of Tokyo to reach the stars and the sea.

The public return of the oldest batch of potential dragon seeds did not cause any big stir. These big capitals have penetrated into the top level of the Western United States and have had close ties with the University of Tokyo. Now that the University of Tokyo stands at the top of the world, it would not be surprising even if the strong men of the Mu clan defected to the University of Tokyo.

Therefore, this kind of return is worthy of the significance of their decades of undercover work, and it ushers in another historic and comprehensive revival of the University of Tokyo.

"Don't worry, Mr. Ren. We old guys will definitely make full use of our remaining energy to do a better job in economic construction for the country." Ma Zhiyuan said excitedly, "Who wouldn't be excited and encouraged by this prosperous era? Facing such a great situation, everyone wants to participate in the great event and feel proud of it."

"We didn't come back to retire to the countryside. We're just getting older and feel more motivated to work in our hometown. Of course, if the country needs us to return to our original positions, we won't hesitate." Ma Zhiyuan's idea was basically the same as that of the corporate hegemons from various countries present.

"That doesn't mean you have to travel too much. The Internet is so developed that you can connect to the world without leaving your home. It doesn't matter where you are. You can control the situation through the Internet. Now that your hometown has been built, you have been wandering and struggling outside for decades. It's right for you to come back to your hometown to relax." Ren Zhong said with a smile, "Like an old man like me, I'm almost retired now. There's nothing big to do. I'll tell the research institute not to bother me."

"But just because they are doing their own thing doesn't prevent us old guys from standing by as bystanders to check for omissions and make things better."

"That's why I took this matter up on your behalf. You've worked in various countries for so long and have achieved great results that ordinary people can't. In economic development, technological innovation, and even in the practice of social affairs, you all have many personal experiences and lessons."

“Although our Dongda has now embarked on the right track of development and the speed of development is satisfactory, national competition is not a matter of three to five years, or even thirty to fifty years. Since the 18th century, the life cycle of a world-leading power has been getting shorter and shorter. We have just stepped onto this position, and no one wants all this to be short-lived. Therefore, we especially need you to explore together how our Dongda should move forward in the future so that we can maintain a healthy development path.”

After Ren Zhong welcomed everyone in, he quickly turned the topic to the grander side. This group of people almost represented the top level of Dongda's scientific and economic circles.

Their thoughts can make half of the world revolve around them, so as soon as Ren Zhong changed the topic, Ma Zhiyuan and the others immediately began to think seriously.

"The development of science and technology is certainly unpredictable, but I think it is essentially a matter of investment and direction. If the investment is sufficient and the direction is right, there will always be some results," Yang Wenyi, who returned from Prussia, said after thinking for a while, "Just like our development in the IT industry, lithography machines and chip design are our foundation. Today's lithography machine systems are becoming more and more complex, from 0.13 microns to 90nm, and now to 65nm. We are constantly investing in research in this area. In the future, we will have a way to further develop to 50nm, 45nm, or even 30nm. In this way, we will always have a leading advantage in the upstream production of chips."

"In addition to domestic investment, we have also added hundreds of billions of dollars of capital drawn from the trillions of dollars of wealth accumulated overseas over the years. As a venture capital fund for the next step of domestic technological innovation, we are likely to have capital investment in research and breakthroughs in all aspects of innovation."

"In this way, the Liming Research Institute, which was founded by Mr. Ren, will take on the responsibility and continue to drive the technological innovation in the core areas of the University. Our venture capital fund will provide research and development resources specifically for the scientific and technological innovation activities of the people of the University. We will not stop in this regard and will continue to lead the world in development."

"But I think that's not enough. Since our economy is already huge, we need to focus not only on innovation but also on the scientific and technological innovation achievements of various countries. When some forward-looking technologies emerge, we need to find ways to acquire them, especially those in cutting-edge emerging fields. We must pay attention to them on a global scale."

"After all, Dongda only accounts for one-tenth of the population of the entire Blue Star. There are many smart people in this world. We can't focus all our attention on ourselves and ignore other shining points."

Ren Zhong deeply agreed with Yang Wenyi's words.

"Wen Yi is right. This is a very good suggestion and idea. I think that in the future venture capital will have the responsibility to collect world-leading technology. It's not just about technology, but also about finding ways to recruit top talent. After becoming honorary citizens, we will also launch the Tongji University green card system. This is a special channel for senior talents from various countries. In the future, talents with a master's degree or above from all over the world can apply for a Tongji University green card to work and live here." Ren nodded, and at the same time revealed the next domestic talent attraction strategy.

In modern society, talent is the basis of competition, and everyone is competing fiercely for high-end talent.

However, according to the simple principle that people go to high places and water flows to low places, without an attractive environment it is impossible to attract high-end talents.

There are opportunities everywhere in Southeast University now. The continuous infrastructure construction and the huge production system of the world's factory require extremely high-end talents to lead and implement.

After Yang Wenyi opened up his mind, everyone started to comment.

Soon, a meeting of greeting and greeting turned into a discussion meeting, where many useful suggestions were constantly collided and grown in the brainstorming process, and finally a complete series of ideas were formed.

(End of this chapter)