Chapter 407: Our team has just opened

Han Songlin was quite happy to have been able to take advantage of Luo Xiaozhong. At the dinner table, Han Songlin talked about some of the arrangements at the Academy of Star Science and Technology.

For example, the academicians, the president, and the chief!

Luo Xiaozhong took a bite of lamb, dipped it in the spicy sauce, and ate it in one go; the lamb was really quite good.

It had the flavour of lamb, but it wasn't gamey!

Some people like the gamey flavour of lamb when they eat it, so it depends on personal preferences.

'That's a good idea of yours! Now there's a problem. Can your Xingchen Institute really develop? If it doesn't, that would be quite embarrassing.'

It's like talking about the emperor inside a thatched cottage. It doesn't look reliable at all.

Once something is labelled unreliable, it is basically, and probably, not reliable.

With this label, it is difficult to gain support.

Many ideas that seemed unreliable at the time were only turned into reality because they gained support.

There are also many ideas that seem quite good in retrospect, but because no one supported them, they were just ideas.

There are also academicians, deans, and chief scientists!

The tone is set quite high, but if it's set too high, it's not easy to sing along!

One mistake and the whole thing falls apart.

'To be honest, I'm quite confident in the development of the Xingchen Academy!' Han Songlin looked at Lin Wei and the others and said so.

Currently, researchers are generally divided into four levels: researcher (professor), associate researcher (associate professor), assistant researcher (lecturer), and intern researcher (teaching assistant).

There are too few levels!

Of course, there is also the title of academician above that.

There are really only a few people who can be promoted to academician; and there are too many interests involved in trying to be promoted to academician in the country.

'In terms of the positioning of the Xingchen Academy, I hope that in the future, it will be the highest scientific and technological institution of the Xinghai Group. It will be fully responsible for planning the research direction of Xinghai Group in scientific research, as well as the implementation of specific research projects.'

'The selection of academicians at the Xingchen Academy will be based entirely on merit. In addition, there will be no limit on the number of academicians. As long as you agree that a person's abilities meet the academician criteria, they can be promoted to academician.'

'Of course, I will retain the right to approve or disapprove of academician promotions!'

Lin Wei is a little dissatisfied that Han Songlin has the right to approve or disapprove of academician promotions: 'Then someone close to you can be directly appointed as an academician.'

'There are naturally limits to this right of mine, and it can only be used a maximum of three times a year.'

Three times is acceptable!

Forget it, give the boss face.

In the future, everyone still has to rely on Han Songlin in order to obtain sufficient research funding.

Lin Wei looked at Yan Jun and Yang Zixing to see what they thought.

Yan Jun and Yang Zixing exchanged glances. They were not young people like Lin Wei and Han Songlin.

They are older, and think about things a little more.

'Calling someone an academician is a bit too high-profile!' Yan Jun said with some concern, always feeling that being called an academician is a bit of a misnomer.

These people, how can they be called academicians!

Luo Xiaozhong also looked at Han Songlin, wanting to hear what he had to say.

The first thing that comes to mind when it comes to the title of academician is the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

If you don't deserve your reputation, you will suffer the consequences. This is a very serious matter. It may not cause any problems for the time being, but in the long run, it will definitely cause problems.

Han Songlin did not give a direct answer to this question: 'Each company already has a dedicated research and development department, and it is currently functioning quite well. Everyone's annual income is also quite good.'

Jian Yan and Yang Zixing both smiled. In terms of income, their annual income now is more than they earned in the previous half of their lives combined.

Even if they stopped working now, the money they have in the bank would be enough to support them for the rest of their lives.

In that case, won't they lose their sense of purpose in life?

Don't worry about that. Their sense of purpose in life has never been about money.

Especially now that they don't lack money, earning money has become a reference indicator for measuring the value of their lives to a certain extent.

In the world, there is nothing but fame and fortune!

When money is no longer that important, people will start to pursue fame.

As a researcher and developer, naturally, I want to pursue breakthroughs in technology.

Xinghai Group does a good job of promoting its people; when a breakthrough is made in a certain technology, a record will be made and then a promotional booklet will be produced.

As for whether such extensive publicity will let the outside world know that you have talented people and they will come to you to poach them,

Han Songlin really doesn't care much about that.

As long as you have sufficient talent production capacity, you don't have to worry about people poaching your talent.

Moreover, if they want to poach talent from Xinghai Group, no domestic company can afford to do so. As for foreign companies?

They are now scrambling to poach low-cost talent from other parts of the country, and they won't come here and spend huge sums of money to poach talent.

If they don't want to use someone who makes 1,000 yuan a month, why would they come here to use someone who makes 3,000 to 5,000 yuan a month?

And if they really want to poach talent, they will have to double the salary, which will be tens of thousands of yuan.

The R&D staff at Xinghai Group earn more than just a salary each year. They also receive project bonuses, technology shares, and year-end bonuses.

An average R&D staff member can earn 100,000 yuan a year, and a good one can easily earn 100,000 to 200,000 yuan.

As for top R&D staff, they can earn millions.

If someone is poached, the salary cannot be lower than what they are currently earning, and it has to be doubled.

Furthermore, Xinghai Group has a rule that if a research and development employee leaves, the technical points will be lost.

Shouldn't this loss be compensated for?

If you do the math, the initial cost of poaching someone is hundreds of thousands, if not millions, which is indeed a bit too high.

One advantage of paying high salaries to talent is that it can prevent competitors from poaching people.

Even if someone is poached, at the very least, it can make the opponent increase their human capital expenditure, which in a way weakens the opponent's competitiveness.

So it is very difficult to rely on constantly poaching people to improve your own research and development capabilities!

First of all, it is more difficult to integrate a team.

'But everyone is willing to be an obscure technical researcher in a company?'

Who among those doing research doesn't have the ambition to become an academician?

A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. It is only natural that people want to keep moving up.

Those people who are crying for a lay-up now only do so because they don't stand a chance; as soon as there's the slightest chance, you'll see them running faster than anyone else.

Academician is a huge honour, a recognition by the industry, and everyone wants it!

Researchers don't often care about what the outside world thinks of them. Because they all share a common understanding in their hearts: the truth is in the hands of the few.

I hold the truth, so why should I listen to you people who know nothing?

'At the beginning, Xingchenyuan will only recruit people from within our company. As we become stronger, our influence will increase, and we can start recruiting others, from professors at universities to researchers at other companies. Every year, we will hold the Xingchen Technology Conference to discuss the future of technology and select the most noteworthy technological or theoretical breakthroughs of the past year. Of course, we can't do without trophies, so let's call them the Xingchen Awards.'

Prizes and such, of course, are a must.

People who do applied research and development make a lot of money; people who do pure theoretical research don't make as much, so prizes must keep up.

Prizes like these academic prizes don't have to be taxed, which is good.

'I want to make Xingchen Academy a purely academic research institution, and what Xingchen Academy pursues is the progress of human technology!'

'I'm not going to say anything about restrictions on the scope of research.'

Lin Wei: 'Boss, can we also conduct research on cloning humans?'

Cloning humans?

Han Songlin felt a sudden sense of suffocation. Human cloning is definitely a black technology, the really dark kind.

'Human cloning definitely cannot be researched, it violates human scientific ethics; however, research on cloning apes is still possible.'

Is there a big difference between cloning apes and cloning humans?