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On April 28, in an interview with CCTV News, Lei Jun responded to donating 1.3 billion yuan to Wuhan University: "When I was in school, I lived on scholarships for a long time. At that time, I vowed that I would pay it back 10,000 times in the future. I donate this money more to fulfill my wishes, and I also hope to support the scientific progress of Wuhan University and cultivate more good programmers and engineers. ”
According to Wuhan University News Network, on the morning of November 29, 2023, Lei Jun, a 1987 alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University and founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, donated 1.3 billion yuan to his alma mater. Lei Jun said that the donation mainly focuses on three directions: supporting the basic research of mathematics, physics, chemistry, literature, history and philosophy, supporting scientific and technological innovation in the field of computer, and supporting the training of college students.
According to Lei Jun's recollection, more than 30 years ago, as an outstanding student representative, he was awarded the highest scholarship at Wuhan University at that time, which was 2,000 yuan. "For a student from an ordinary county family, this is really a huge amount of money. To this day, I vividly remember the excitement and pride I felt at the same time. Lei Jun said that at that time, he secretly swore in his heart: "How many scholarships I received today, I will return ten, hundred, and ten thousand times in the future." ”
Lei Jun emphasized that he did not donate when he had money, but began to donate when his monthly salary was 4,000 yuan, and it has been 26 years.
Wuhan University is rich in AI resources
At present, Wuhan has 4 AI universities, namely Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan University of Technology and Wuhan Institute of Technology; There are 4 artificial intelligence technology industry alliances, namely China Optics Valley Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, Artificial Intelligence Industry Standards Alliance, China Animal Husbandry Association Intelligent Animal Husbandry Branch and Autonomous Driving City Demonstration and Industry Collaborative Innovation Alliance.
The situation of the leading public higher education schools in mainland China
Universities in mainland China are mainly divided into public universities, private universities and Sino-foreign joint universities, among which public universities are the main body and core of the higher education industry. Public universities refer to institutions of higher learning established and maintained with the funding of the national government or local governments, and public universities are different from private universities with private capital. It is precisely because it was founded by the government that it has a large financial backing for its development, compared to the smaller private and private universities, and the support behind them is also small.
Top-notch technologies often require huge funding for research, so most of the institutions with strong scientific research capabilities in the mainland are public universities, so public universities are the core of higher education in the mainland. At present, the leading public higher education schools in mainland China include Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University, etc., among which Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang University have more national key disciplines and key laboratories, and these schools have obvious disciplinary advantages and strong experimental scientific research capabilities.
Funding for education will be further increased
In the "Modernization of Education in China" over the years, it is proposed to improve the investment support system for education modernization. Improve the long-term mechanism to ensure the sustained and steady growth of financial investment in education, ensure that the general public budget expenditure on education only increases year by year, ensures that the average expenditure on education in the general public budget according to the number of students in school only increases year by year, and ensures that the proportion of state fiscal expenditure on education in GDP is generally not less than 4%. Therefore, for a long time, the proportion of fiscal spending on education to GDP will remain at about 4%.
In 2015, the proportion of mainland state fiscal expenditure on education to GDP reached 4.26%, and since then it has been declining year by year, rising to 4.22% for the first time in 2020. Worldwide, the world average is 4.9% of GDP, 5.1% in developed countries and 4.1% in less developed countries. In contrast, there is still a lot of room for growth in the mainland government's investment in education. It is predicted that by 2026, the mainland's investment in higher education is expected to be close to 2 trillion yuan.
Xu Mei, spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, said that the construction schools will be guided to further intensify reforms, enhance their connotation, and speed up the construction process, so as to promote the improvement of the mainland's overall higher education strength and international competitiveness.
Yang Xiaomin, an associate professor at the China Institute of Education Policy at Beijing Normal University, said that with the attention and great efforts of governments at all levels to education, the education priority development strategy has been consolidated at the level of financial security. Yang Xiaomin suggested that "in the future, the investment in education should be optimized through multiple channels, and the financial funds should be used to lead and drive social capital and private capital to support the development of education, so as to form a joint force between the government and the society in education funding." ”
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