Chapter 781 Prepare to Start Being a Mentor!

Although Bai Lide could not find any logical loopholes in Zhou Ruifu's analysis, he always felt that something was wrong.

"Mr. Brigadier General."

The latter rubbed his hands agitatedly:

"Although the author of the article you mentioned is Chinese, Jane's Defense Weekly is a media with a relatively large influence after all..."

In the late 1990s, Jane's Defense had not yet become completely entertaining, and the content was still somewhat profound.

Military, political and business people in many countries would subscribe to it and even publish commentary articles on it.

However, Zhou Ruifu waved his hand:

"If it were in Europe or the United States, then your statement might be correct, but in China, or in the entire East Asia region, the content of Jane's Defense is actually nothing interesting."

Then he opened the drawer, took out a newspaper and a magazine from it, and placed them on the desk.

There were many pencil marks on the newspaper, which were obviously carefully read.

"On the contrary, this newspaper, and of course the accompanying publications, although not very famous, I specifically asked someone to check the background and found that it was actually founded by a Chinese military enterprise about ten years ago, and it still maintains financial transactions to this day."

Zhou Ruifu said, reaching out and tapping lightly on the newspaper:

"So, the articles that can be published here must have a thousand connections with the financial backers behind them!"

No one could have imagined that an article written entirely by a small person based on imagination in order to complete the KPI would eventually have such an indirect and direct impact on international politics.

In fact, he was completely judging others by his own standards.

In the late 1980s, in order to meet the people's growing curiosity about military equipment knowledge, and of course to generate income during the low period of military industry, major military industry corporations did register a number of literary publications.

Some even established their own publishing houses.

But the good times didn't last long. As the old state-owned enterprises were not flexible enough in their operation mode and their content was professional but not interesting enough, these newspapers and magazines quickly turned from blood transfusion bags into blood draining slots. Not only could they not provide income, but they often spent more than they earned.

Therefore, by the second half of the 1990s, most of them were contracted to individuals or professional publishing organizations.

In other words, they retained their original names, but they actually had little to do with the military-industrial units behind them.

Accordingly, the content quality of the publications began to decline.

Later, the five major companies were split into groups, which was even less of a problem.

But in the eyes of Zhou Ruifu, a senior US military officer, isn't this a complete "military-industrial group sponsoring the media and lobbying group" script?

You still say you have no background?

And Bai Lide has not been in China as long as Zhou Ruifu, and after hearing what the latter said, he no longer had any doubts.

So, they reported this conjecture of "AL31F improvement theory" as the conclusion of open source intelligence analysis.

Originally, this kind of report was just a routine matter. In addition, Zhou Ruifu and Bai Lide were both professional soldiers who started their careers halfway through their careers. They had neither diplomacy nor intelligence training.

Moreover, in the post-Cold War era, military technical intelligence was not something that required a high timeliness. As long as they waited a little longer, more professional intelligence agencies would submit more credible analysis conclusions.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, no one would take it seriously.

But this time, the analysis that the two copied directly happened to be stuck at a strange time point.

So that a small essay written by an unknown author to complete the KPI eventually changed the world's aviation industry pattern...

...

Of course, for Chang Haonan, the decision to promote the negotiations had just been made, and even the negotiation team had not been pulled together, so there was no follow-up at all.

After the meeting, he returned to school as usual.

For him, the most urgent thing at the moment was...

Enrollment.

This enrollment involved two aspects.

First, after the National Day, until early November, the students who are doing their final projects will choose their supervisors.

Second, at about the same time, students who have been qualified for postgraduate recommendation need to confirm their supervisors.

The postgraduate recommendation work actually started very early, but there was no China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center and no online archives in those days, so the progress in all aspects would be slower than before Chang Haonan traveled through time.

Of course, since the recommendation interviews of most schools are just a formality, and the final ranking is basically the average grade point ranking, some students who feel they have hope will start contacting their supervisors before the end of the third semester of their junior year.

Just like Chang Haonan himself did back then (although he was contacted by his supervisor).

However, not everyone will do this.

Some students who want to be recommended to study for a master's degree in other schools have no evidence, and teachers in other schools cannot determine the ranking of majors based on a transcript alone.

Moreover, the contact at this time, no matter what the result is, can only be regarded as a personal agreement between teachers and students.

In principle, both parties can cancel.

The tutor will not be confirmed until November in the form of a file.

So after the recommendation results come out in October, there will be another peak period for contacting tutors-

In other words, when students who take the postgraduate entrance examination choose tutors in March next year, the tutors have actually been snatched up by the school and other schools twice.

There is still time left...

Ahem.

Normally, young teachers who have just been promoted to master's/doctoral tutors can only wait until next year.

But Chang Haonan's situation is not normal after all.

Even if you only look at the public part of his personal profile, you can realize from the dense topics and projects that this teacher is not simple.

On the other hand, such a young full professor is a golden signboard in itself...

"Professor Chang, these are the student letters that the laboratory has received in the past period of time. I sorted them out and they are all here."

After officially joining the work, Chang Haonan finally felt that he was short of manpower. Finally, under the strong suggestion of teacher Yang Huimei, he recruited Liu Chenchen, a counselor who had just graduated from her.

But she was not in Torch Group, but as an administrative secretary for the entire laboratory.

"Put it on my desk first."

Chang Haonan was checking his mailbox on the computer at this time. He pointed to the side and asked the other party to put the letter aside.

"Okay."

Liu Chenchen put away a large pile of envelopes, and then left Chang Haonan's office with a brisk step.

Before leaving, he did not forget to close the door.

Chang Haonan took out a letter opener from the pen holder and began to open the letter.

Compared with later generations, the usage rate of e-mail in this era was not high.

Chang Haonan just looked through his mailbox and found only two emails related to graduate school applications, and both of them said that they had sent the relevant materials in the form of letters.

Obviously, sending letters through the post office or human couriers is still the main means of contact.

"Junior of Jinghang, ranked second in the major, hopes to engage in research and development in flight control, took teacher Liu Hongbo's class and got 95 points..."

"Also a junior of Jinghang, ranked first in the major, hopes to engage in research in structural mechanics, and has published a paper in undergraduate stage... uh... Journal of Jinghang University..."

"Master of Bingcheng University of Technology, major in mechanics, tutor is Professor Li Zhihong, participated in the general project 'New Principles and New Methods for Digital Precision Machining of High-performance Complex Surfaces'... hiss... I remember that this seems to be a project in the Seiko Plan... There are also letters of recommendation..."

Chang Haonan opened and read while reading, and it took him about an hour and a half to finish reading the contents of dozens of envelopes.

They are all top students who have obtained guaranteed admission to graduate school, and there is nothing to pick in terms of average grades.

The worst one, ranked fifth in the major during undergraduate stage.

Even many people have had scientific research experience during undergraduate stage - although it is impossible to have the amazing experience of Chang Haonan, in this era without SRTP and other projects, it is already quite difficult for undergraduates to enter the laboratory...

For the first time, Chang Haonan felt that he had difficulty in making choices.

If he confirmed with Li Hongzhi himself later and found no problems with the student of Professor Li Zhihong, he would basically have decided to recruit him to study for a doctorate.

After all, Bingcheng University of Technology is also one of the seven sons of national defense, and students from there will have fewer things to do when participating in projects.

But the remaining master's quota still made him a little difficult to choose.

Many supervisors would prefer to recruit students from their own school, but Chang Haonan did not have this tendency.

"Then... let's have an interview..."

Chang Haonan picked out five files that he felt most satisfied with and gave them to Liu Chenchen, indicating that the other party would call back one by one and invite them to come to Jinghang for an interview.

If there are students from other places, then travel expenses and accommodation expenses can be reimbursed.