February 14, Beijing City Hall

This time, Liu Yichen arrived at 8 o'clock. The conference started at 10 o'clock, so he arrived two hours early.

Even if he actually felt that arriving two hours early was of no use, he still had to follow this unspoken rule to avoid being said to be arrogant by some people.

Thousands of scientific researchers gathered in the Great Hall. These are the backbone of the scientific research field of the Republic. It can be said that the backbone of China is there. They support the confidence that China can straighten its spine and dare to focus on the world and make a global layout.

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The only people Liu Yichen interacts with are scholars from the mathematics and chemistry fields, and basically don't know the rest.

It's just that even though it was his second time to participate in the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, Liu Yichen was still the youngest in the room, and even the security personnel were several years older than him.

Now, Liu Yichen is not yet 22 years old.

She is too young. A normal undergraduate at this age has not yet graduated from college.

"Professor Liu, you are amazing. You have solved Goldbach's conjecture. This great achievement has allowed our Chinese mathematics community to show its face in the world of mathematics!" Academician Peng said to Liu Yichen with a smile, and followed Liu Yichen

After proving Goldbach's conjecture, he received a doctorate from Princeton University and was appointed as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Academician Peng no longer calls him "Xiao Liu", but "Professor Liu"!

There is no doubt that as Liu Yichen proves Goldbach's conjecture, whether Liu Yichen likes it or not, his status in the Chinese mathematics community has risen, and he can almost be said to be a flag in the Chinese mathematics community.

"Academician Peng, you're complimenting me, but it's actually just a small achievement." Liu Yichen said modestly, feeling embarrassed by Academician Peng's praise.

"If you still have a small score, then we in the Chinese mathematics community will have no results!" Academician Peng waved his hand: "Humility is a virtue, but being too modest is not good!"

"That's what you're criticizing!" Liu Yichen quickly gave up.

"Alas, it's a pity that in our Chinese mathematics community, apart from you, only one result has entered the second prize in natural sciences. It's really worrying." Academician Peng is worried about the development of the Chinese mathematics community.

Liu Yichen quickly comforted him: "Academician Peng, you don't have to worry. When Zhang Wei and others return to China, the strength of the Chinese mathematics community will increase a lot and its development will get better and better."

"Zhang Wei and the others are indeed good, but they are far behind you." Academician Peng sighed: "And based on the current domestic environment, there is probably no place suitable for them when they come back. They are just wasting money."

In my spare time, I would rather teach in a foreign school and help send more good students to study abroad."

This is a very obvious thing. It’s not that many people don’t want to come back, but that coming back is useless.

For example, in the original trajectory, Xu Chenyang returned to China in 2013 and won the Qiushi Foundation Outstanding Young Scientist Award and the 13th China Youth Science and Technology Award. In 2014, he won the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund and was named Yangtze River Distinguished Professor of Yanda. In 2016

He won the Ramanujan Award in 2017, the Future Science Award - Mathematics and Computer Science Award in 2017, and was selected as one of the "50 Chinese Overseas Students in 2017". However, he eventually went to the United States to serve as a professor.

And his interview speech when he left made people have to reflect on the helplessness of reality.

There is no place for heroes!

In terms of basic research, Huaxia is still too weak. The attention and investment in the entire education in this area are far from enough, and most of the positions are occupied by others. Even if you come back from studying abroad and you are awesome,

They won't give you any trouble.

"No, the development will get better and better!" Liu Yichen smiled softly. It was difficult for others to change this situation, but he had the ability to do something.

But now is not the time.

Liu Yichen greeted other mathematics scholars and chatted with chemistry scholars he knew.

As the staff reminded that there were only 10 minutes left before the conference, everyone was asked to take their seats, and everyone began to get to where they should be.

At 10 a.m., the majestic national anthem sounded in the General Assembly Hall, marking the official start of the conference.

Among the warm applause, the first recipients of the Supreme Science and Technology Award were awarded. Two academicians who have worked for the cause of China all their lives received this honor. Academician Xie and Academician Wu are now facing the brightest and most glorious moment in their lives.

Amid warm applause, the two winners received their award certificates from the leaders, with flashes of light and thunderous applause.

Liu Yichen was also filled with emotion. Two highly respected old men, one accelerated my country's particle research, and the other transformed the city's declining appearance. The octogenarian academic master has turned around our country through unremitting pursuit for more than half a century. The backwardness in related research fields has greatly benefited the younger generations.

After the country’s highest science and technology award, there is the National Natural Science Award. The first one announced is the first prize of the National Natural Science Award. This award undoubtedly falls on Liu Yichen, because in the list announced in the preliminary evaluation this year, the first prize is

There are only Liu Yichen’s research results on Goldbach’s conjecture.

No other achievements can compete with him in this aspect.

"Professor Liu, when do you plan to return to China?" When taking photos, the old man asked kindly: "The country needs young scholars like you to provide wisdom for national construction and make suggestions for national development."

The leader's few words made Liu Yichen seem quite restrained. He said: "Boss, I plan to return to China in 2014. I still have some things to do in the United States."

"These basic, underlying things are what our country lacks the most. We will also need to develop these theories in the future. With the support of scientific theories, technology can become more advanced and catch up with the international level." The old man said with a smile.

Obviously, leaders very much recognize that science is the primary productive force, and they also deeply understand the importance of basic and underlying things to China's development.

The old man and Liu Yichen chatted for a while, and the people around him couldn't help but show envy. Especially when the old man asked Liu Yichen to stand next to him and take pictures together, many people went crazy with envy. After all, this kind of opportunity is very rare.

Many old academicians couldn't help but sigh: "It's really the world of young people now! Won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award for two consecutive years!"

"Old, old!"

In fact, most of them are still 'old people'. In academic circles, forty-year-olds are considered young. In a conference hall with thousands of people, there are only a few people under the age of forty.

Therefore, this makes Liu Yichen stand out. Looking at the past, Liu Yichen is the youngest, tall, handsome, and has a good temperament. Even the photographers couldn't help but take a few more shots of him.

Compared with 2010, the gold content of the award-winning projects in 2011 has increased. For example, as a geological science and technology worker who has worked on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for a long time, the former chief engineer of the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the winner of the National Science and Technology Progress Award special award, Mr. Zhang

, in fact, it was not just him who won the award, but it represented him and tens of thousands of geologists who broke through the forbidden zone of life, braved risks such as high cold, hypoxia, altitude sickness, etc., walked dozens of kilometers of routes every day, and slept in the open air.

They also encountered wild beasts. It was under such difficult conditions that they finally completed the "Major Breakthrough in Geological Theory Innovation and Ore Prospecting on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau" project after 10 years of hard work.

Liu Yichen admires these workers who have firm beliefs and dare to push limits.

One of the most important reasons why China has been able to develop to this point is that it has a group of scientific researchers who dare to think and do things that ordinary people dare not to do. They have overcome many problems and solved one technology after another, creating a strong foundation for China's rejuvenation.

, allowing China to always stand firm in the world when it is generally not looked upon overseas.

It is through them that China has mastered each technology and achieved modern industrialization. Maybe their wages are not high, but they have contributed to China's development.

China's development has never relied on the smartest people, but on those who are not smart in Liu Yichen's eyes, but rely on the spirit of Foolish Old Man to move mountains to conquer each technology.

Behind many bridges, railways, highways and other large-scale infrastructure projects, many college students in their prime went into the mountains and forests to build them in front of hard-working brick movers.

You can't hire a migrant worker with 3,000 yuan, but you can hire a college graduate with 3,000 yuan and still be owed one year's salary.

Under every bridge pier, there is a human life. This sentence is definitely not just talk, but it is truly covered with blood.

Suddenly, Liu Yichen felt that he was nothing special. Compared with those who were struggling, even if they cursed and complained but still worked hard, he seemed small and ordinary.

As the winner of the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, Liu Yichen is naturally the focus of interviews by news media reporters, and he also cooperates with reporters in interviews.

"The proof of Goldbach's conjecture is actually not my fault alone. I also stood on the shoulders of giants to complete this work and cap the building of Goldbach's conjecture." When asked about Goldbach.

When asked about his feelings about the proof of his conjecture, Liu Yichen said modestly.

"Everyone knows that senior Chen Jingrun used the sieve method to prove Goldbach's conjecture '12', but actually they don't know that it was senior Wang Yuan who first introduced the sieve method into Goldbach's conjecture. Therefore, it is the efforts of predecessors.

This enables me to complete this work now.”

"What do you think of Fang Zhouzi's remarks that you proved that Goldbach's conjecture is wrong?" the reporter asked.

"What qualifications does he have to evaluate? Let's wait until he learns mathematics first." Liu Yichen said disdainfully. He actually didn't have any good impression of this kind of person.

Academics are serious and rigorous. The same is true for mathematics. Those in different fields dare not evaluate those in another field. The result is good. A person from a different discipline came to evaluate mathematicians and he spoke eloquently.

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Chapter completed!